Hello and welcome to NeuroTalk. Great to see you have come to be with us. Just let us know if we can be of any help.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around.

Darlene

Thanks everyone for the nice welcome messages. I'll probably do more reading than anything else here. I'm wondering what's different between here and psych central, besides that this community seems to be more focused on the medical side of things. I'm looking for a place where I can belong, and I don't think there is anyplace like that. I'll post if I see anyplace here that I have anything to contribute, although I'm more focused on mental health. Both as far as my own concerns, and also professionally. I'm a student intern working towards being a mental health counselor. My current settings have a lot of medical involvement though, since I've been doing internship in nursing homes, and my other job is working with developmentally disabled adults, who frequently have various medical concerns too. So I have some experience with things like alzheimer's and autism, which I have seen posts about here.

Maybe what I'm looking for is a place where I might be useful in some way, because I hardly ever feel like I'm worth anything. But I'm spread too thin as it is.

It's great to hear back from you.

You'll find that there are a large number of registered nurses, and members of other medical careers in all disciplines here on NeuroTalk, so hopefully you'll be able to get valid advice and support now that you've joined us.

Welcome again. I look forward to meeting up with you later.

Hello Rapunzel and Welcome to NeuroTalk. After reading your intro, I think you will fit in just fine here and can probably be of some help to other members. Sometimes it's just knowing others' care that will do the trick. I'm glad you found us and hope you make yourself at home.