[catman8989]

I just wanna know more people on this site and I wanna know why it is you came and registered and took time to do this for yourself.

[Yours_Truly]

I was literally searching for a "how to" on suicide. PC immediately made me feel not so alone. It took about a year & a half of lurking for me to work up the courage to join. I still don't feel comfortable giving advice & there's so many here already who are so good at it, so I joined to offer support if I can & to not feel so alone. (Did I use 'so' enough?lol)

[stewartmays1]

i guess its because i need all the help i can get so i will often come to this site and use it to help me out if i can

[*Laurie*]

I joined PC to be with others who are mentally ill, to give (and sometimes get) support, and to learn more about psych meds.

[gina_re]

I came across this website when I was researching to write papers when I was school. After I graduated, I came back to the site and started actively posting. Then stopped for a year or two, and I've been back since. It's comforting to be able to talk with others who have similar problems and I can provide support and advice to others as they can for me.

[BrazenApogee]

I joined because I was having a really hard time between sessions with my T. I needed somewhere I could go and vent or get support or just not feel so alone. This place has been perfect for that. I am so grateful for this site.

I had a sort of perhaps maybe not quite sure OK so yeah breakdown and was surfing and came across the site. I was starting on meds and seeing a T but still thinking of Sui every day and the site was a good way to take my mind off it. I spent a lot of time on the Games forum, made some friends and then started reading and posting on other threads. I like being able to respond to or hear from people around the world any time of day or night, even when I'm lying in bed in the dark trying not to freak out. Makes me feel safer somehow.

[fishin fool]

I came here after the hardest two years of my life.
I was the only caretaker of my mother with alzhiemers while going through a divorce
and having big issues at work. The crash finally came and I was hospitalized.
It was then I knew I needed more support than just my therapist.
This is a wonderful community and I am glad I am here.

I came looking for help and someone to talk to that suffers from the same condition I have but never found anyone!! I just hang around to look at the posts and talk to a good friend I have made.

[mindwrench]

I started reading this forum to better understand the life I have been living. I kept reading this forum and joined it, because people here understand and I am not alone in this anymore. I am eternally grateful for the community here.

I'm what Dr. Hannibal Lecter described in The Silence of the Lambs as a tedious, garden-variety manic depressive, and I believe that you can't fully understand and therefore cannot viscerally empathize with phenomena like mania, depression, the heavy meds and their side effects, the stigma, the isolation, the pain and disappointment of mental illness and all its consequences without directly experiencing them yourself.

I would attend a local support group as I have in prior times in my life, but I'm not really comfortable driving anymore, and about a decade ago I befriended someone from a bipolar support group in my present neighborhood who turned out to be a pedophile, which freaked me out so much that I never returned to the group.

It's challenging to responsibly and elegantly describe your own feelings and experiences and try to provide support to others with only longtime experience in lieu of formal credentials and training as qualification, and it's good mental exercise to write it all out. I learn more about myself when I force myself to explain my experiences or justify any advice or opinions I have to offer.

I mean well, and my stats say I've been "Thanked" 548 times in 312 posts, so I must be getting through to someone at least part of the time. There are many on this forum who consistently dispense thoughtful, wise and compassionate advice. I'm not one of them, but I certainly benefit from their input.

[~Christina]

Just got out of the psych ward and needed info.

Loads of support here and I have life long friends I would have never met if it wasn't for PC ❤️

[Trippin2.0]

My eldest brother was murdered, and then my dad suddenly died shortly after, the result?


I thought I was losing my mind, and found this place while trying to make sense of my unraveling psyche.


I've logged in daily ever since, even if I don't always post. I've made special friends here.

[Crazy Hitch]

I found it on google search when I was trying to find out more about Bipolar after my diagnosis.

[Fresia]

No one understood what I was going through or could even relate. I was losing my mind and so very alone. I was in an insomnia period, surfing, and a site referred me to PC. It has been the best tab I have ever selected. I have been coming daily ever since.

Besides the unconditional support, I have made such lovely friends and acquaintances from all over, and I love supporting something that is helpful, understanding, and supportive because there can be so little of it IRL.

PC.

[healingme4me]

Was looking for a place to come to that could offer support and understanding to what I was going through with my ex husband. Also a place for support regarding my depression and anxiety. I really liked the diversity of the forums, where there's distraction areas and it needn't be so serious all of the time, which is what I was coming accross before coming here. Knew about PC care of Neurotalk. Felt a little out of place because my disease(MS) isn't at a level of disability and my anxiety wasn't relateable, or so it felt to me.

[pixiefey]

I came here for support to prevent a breakdown. I'm trying to get into a free clinic to get back on my lithium. Had no insurance so just been hanging on. Un till I can get help I'll hang out here and hope I can make it. I will be calling a low cost sliding scale clinic Monday. Wish me luck and thanks for reading my post.

[IchbinkeinTeufel]

Hiya.

I came here because I was very unstable at the time and, like many here, I needed support. I have OCD, social and health anxiety, plus a noteworthy portion of depression. Fun! ...not. I needed to learn what was wrong with me. This site played a pivotal role in my "recovery" and actually somewhat helped me mature. I joined this site almost 7 long years ago; I'm a very different person now, and plenty older! Thanks to PC, I'm still learning, though.

It's a pleasure to be here, and an honor to be working alongside the Community Support Team. I'm grateful for each and every member who made me feel welcome and supported, even when I was being difficult.

I hope that's what you were after, catman8989.

[TishaBuv]

I was trying to cope and figure out what was going on with me by googling symptoms, illnesses, and found this site. I had no luck with doctors. I registered, but didn't go back to the site and was too scared to start posting for months. Now I see it as a support group and I've learned a lot. I hope things are getting better for me.

[SvanThor]

To help other people.

[TishaBuv]

Originally Posted by Trippin2.0

My eldest brother was murdered, and then my dad suddenly died shortly after, the result?


I thought I was losing my mind, and found this place while trying to make sense of my unraveling psyche.


I've logged in daily ever since, even if I don't always post. I've made special friends here.

My uncle

Possible trigger:

committed suicide right in front of his parents (my grandparents)

and his mother got cancer and died two years later. We think the shock of that triggered her death, too.

[catman8989]

Thanks all for your personal stories. I came here about a year a ago but I haven't started posting since recently. I came here when I was looking for anything that could poin to solutions on these auditory and sometimes visual hallucinations. But I lurked through mainly. But now I'm posting so I'm ready. Thank you all for your stories and wish you all happy health.

[Unrigged64072835]

I came here looking for some fellowship when I was suffering from depression. Now that I'm disabled and don't have much to do I'm on here quite a bit.

[Skeezyks]

Well... this is simply what happens when you give a computer to an old man with time on his hands.

[Leselase]

I have been calling up helplines, searching for something to help me, or someone. Nothing helped. I've been on forums before and found them quite helpful, I googled mental health forums and this came up and it already seems very good. My moods have been so all over the place I just need some advice really, being part of a community sounds really helpful.