[DiMarie]

Originally Posted by mister

Could you add a domestic abuse forum? I have seen a great many good things come from the help that can be offered to both male and female victims of domestic abuse. If it is out there they will often check in while checking the website out and so much help can be offered to people through this type of site. It can offer them a forum, advice, options and a listening ear. You have no idea how important those things can be for the abused who feel trapped. They can find out that they have options and friends who understand and that can mean the world to so many. It could verywell save their lives.

Just my opinion.
Regards
Mister

I second that. There are people here with various health, physical, mental or their family and friends whom have domestic problems added on top of things.
Dianne

[OneMoreTime]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mister

Originally Posted by mister
Could you add a domestic abuse forum? I have seen a great many good things come from the help that can be offered to both male and female victims of domestic abuse. If it is out there they will often check in while checking the website out and so much help can be offered to people through this type of site. It can offer them a forum, advice, options and a listening ear. You have no idea how important those things can be for the abused who feel trapped. They can find out that they have options and friends who understand and that can mean the world to so many. It could verywell save their lives.
Just my opinion.
Regards
Mister

Hi, Mister. Higher on the page, I gave a thumbs up to your idea .. but after I posted, I remembered and continued to think on how on Bipolar, discussions about our illnesses getting worse, the pressures our illness puts on our families, our job searches and firings, our spouses' being laid off, having to move to cheaper digs, our ill or disabled kids, our marriages and relationships in some sort of trouble. None of us would have even briefly considered going to a specific forum. We needed our friends, we needed those who understood the illnesses we suffered from, what our past history here.

And none of us would have considered cutting them off as off-topic, telling them to take this issue somewhere elsewhere. (tho I understand that not every forum, no matter how busy, will necessarily develop such a closely knit supportive and understanding family as you see at BP).

Another valid point, a lot of people, no matter how well educated, will recognize themselves as abused, or they may be in strong denial, see themselves as causing their own problems, or simply be too embarrassed to talk about these things in a totally open forum. And this includes men and women.

And, as another point to look at, I do know that many of specialty forums have ended up very quiet forums with little activity -- certainly not enough to ever develop its own supportive on-going community.

But MAYBE if there was a forum called Our Families in Crisis or something like that might more readily attract more users who CAN become a supportive community. And we have to remember that domestic abuse never occurs in isolation and I've mentioned many of those correllaries above.

Thoughts and feedback regarding this idea? A more encompassing concept?

Just thinking ...
Theresa

[Ellie]

I'd like a Weight Gain Support area. I sure could use some tips atleast. I need around 20lbs or more (incase I lose again!). Not sure how common it is, I can't find local help since being skinny is a trend, they look at me like a weirdo if I say I want to GAIN weight.

[Wittesea]

Ellie -

Great idea!!! I also need to GAIN about 20 pounds, and anytime I mention it to anyone they think I'm nuts. My doctor ans my husband and the only people who understand, the rest of the world doesn't understand the concept of needing to gain weight.

What if "Weight Loss Support" was changed to "Weight Support" or something like that ("healthy weight support" maybe?) so that those who need to drop weight can get support, and those that need to gain weight can also get support.