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Pretty much what it says in the header. Has anyone ever found an online forum for suicide/mental health that is actually decent?

Not somewhere where people can discuss methods etc., somewhere with more of a peer support and mental health support focus?
 
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ThatStateOfMind

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Pretty much what it says in the header. Has anyone ever found an online forum for suicide/mental health that is actually decent?

Not somewhere where people can discuss methods etc., somewhere with more of a peer support and mental health support focus?
There's r/SuicideWatch. That isn't really a forum though, but I don't know anything else.
 
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This is the only forum i have found that even understands whats going on with us.
 
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I feel like forums are mostly a thing of the past and that the only reason this one is as active as it is, is because standard social media sites -- which have gobbled up all the traffic that forums once got -- forbid the discussion.

In Account Settings under Preferences, there is the option to hide the main Suicide Discussion forum, and I want to say this is going to be your best bet unless you want to suffer Reddit and scale back on suicide chatter.

There are other forums out there, but you might be looking at days (or longer) for response times and their tolerance for suicide discussion will probably be minimal.
 
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Not somewhere where people can discuss methods etc., somewhere with more of a peer support and mental health support focus?
you can put everything you dont want on ignore. thats how ive had it for awhile so i only see the support part. (ill honestly get confused for a second when theres a post under the suggestions complaining about whatever or just misplaced lol)

just maybe something you can try if you dont find anything else
 
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I think large tech companies want people to believe that old school forums are a thing of the past. This further increases their stranglehold on our attention and the information we have access to, which means more profits for them. In reality, for almost any topic, there are still old school forums alive and well.

To answer OP's question I looked up "mental health forum", and saw several that looked reasonable. You'd probably get more variety too if you try a few different search engines, e.g. Duck Duck Go, Google and Yandex. If you want one where you can openly discuss wanting to CTB without judgment, though, I doubt you'll find better than SaSu.

It's one of my goals to start using old school forums more because they don't wreak havoc on my attention span, they don't make me feel like shit, they feel more like a community, and they actually have higher quality information. (I actually learn things rather than just thinking I'm learning things.)

I just the other day I found a forum for transgender people at all stages (including pre-transition, transitioning, non-transition, de-transition) called susans.org, and so far it seems fantastic. I feel like being trans would have been so much easier if I'd found it sooner.
 
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I think large tech companies want people to believe that old school forums are a thing of the past. This further increases their stranglehold on our attention and the information we have access to, which means more profits for them. In reality, for almost any topic, there are still old school forums alive and well.

To answer OP's question I looked up "mental health forum", and saw several that looked reasonable. You'd probably get more variety too if you try a few different search engines, e.g. Duck Duck Go, Google and Yandex. If you want one where you can openly discuss wanting to CTB without judgment, though, I doubt you'll find better than SaSu.

It's one of my goals to start using old school forums more because they don't wreak havoc on my attention span, they don't make me feel like shit, they feel more like a community, and they actually have higher quality information. (I actually learn things rather than just thinking I'm learning things.)

I just the other day I found a forum for transgender people at all stages (including pre-transition, transitioning, non-transition, de-transition) called susans.org, and so far it seems fantastic. I feel like being trans would have been so much easier if I'd found it sooner.
Hey, thank you, that's awesome that you found that. I think esp. when it comes to the LGBT+ community there are definitely some great orgs out there… I guess with actual mental health crisis it's probably more tricky because I imagine they might want to make sure that folks aren't on there scaring everyone else talking about their suicidal feelings, or the extreme situations they have gotten themselves into in their lives that are causing them to feel suicidal. So I imagine they might dissuade folks posting who are in really extreme states. Which I guess by now I fall into that category really.

But anyway, thank you. I'll have a look around and see what I find.

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By the way, maybe you'll like these folks? Never used their service personally but heard down the grape vine that they are good.

 
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Pretty much what it says in the header. Has anyone ever found an online forum for suicide/mental health that is actually decent?

Not somewhere where people can discuss methods etc., somewhere with more of a peer support and mental health support focus?

Theres one called suicide forum.




It's similar to this forum. You can openly talk about suicide. The only difference is that they don't allow explicit method talk. There are support forums for mental health and other issues people face.
It's more supportive than here since it's more recovery oriented.


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