other psych web sites

i have been using another psych site and i would like to thank everyone here for not been the same as that one, i have posted many things on the other site and at first they were helping but they started to judge me and my life.
i asked for help and got shot down with a list of things that i should of done to help my family , and that i was getting what i deserve in life .
i was listening to them and letting it eat me up inside
i was getting so low that i found it hard to get up in the mornings ,
so i would just like to ask everyone on this site 1 favour????
PLEASE DONT CHANGE your all wonderful and the help you give me is lovely

(((((((((((((((((((((((((((everyone)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

aaaaaw, we love you here.....you don't change either!!

I can totally relate to this, I used to be a member of another mental health forum (I wont stipulate which) where I was getting treated really badly.
Nothing really too in my face, there was never anything posted as such where one could point at it and say "see". Yet as time went by I started to feel more and more damaged by that site, some of its members and some of its moderator.
The hardest thing I found was knowing that the site owner had been accused of sexually harassing some of the members. The police were involved but nothing could be pinned on him, at that time my loyalty to the site owner led me to stand by him and offer support where I could. Yet little things kept slipping, and I started noticing that he only ever responded to the damsel in distress type of threads, his comments were often sexual in nature.
I even discovered a post he made where he stipulated his address for 'members' to 'confide' in him in a more private setting!
The day came where I started a thread complaining about the nasty comments being posted about men in general.
The site owner moved my thread and stated that his site members were mostly female and that I needed to be mindful of this. I can't remember his wording exactly, but he was basically telling me to clear off.
Obviously, I left, it had all become too much for me to cope with, it damaged my faith in mental health support forums, until that is I found the strength to find somewhere else to rest my slippers'n'pipe.
Like yourself, I am over-joyed at having found this site, I really didn't believe such a place would exist on the Net, but here I am, restin me tootsies.
Fox

I think it's awful how other sites that are "self-help" just do the opposite of what they are supposed to do.

I think if my site ever became like that I'd be just horrified. Thank god there are helpful sites like PC!

this site is one in a million