people are replying giving like general irl advice but if u want to message and have conversations with people from this forum specifically, i recommend looking up at the pinned posts here in 'Off Topic' because there's a 'Make a Friend' thread where you can message ppl you might relate to or make a post yourself.
there's also a similar 'recovery partner' thread under the 'recovery' forum, in case thats of any relavence to you
Oh, & by the way you might not be able to message people yet (with the "chat" feature) with the number of posts u have
cause recently there was an announcement where they raised the number of posts u need to use the chat feature
also seeing this is an old post u probably know all of this already but im just going to hit reply anyway since i just got locked out of the chat feature & need to get my post count up
lol