Like this, like so its pretty and easy to use and find. With a bit of moderation. This forum saved my life. Maybe others too. Bipolars could benefit from not being turned away because of semantics.
I believe/d in schizophrenia forum and so it saved my life.
Anyone good with computers? Anyone have ideas?
Bipolars are welcome here. We have many bipolar members.
There’s the dx’d other category. That’s good for that
It’s easy to make one they just use discourse software. But it cost moneys
@szadmin thanks again for hosting this forum!!
Yes, but just out of hospitalization, you’ve got a lot of people, it’ll fill up quick. You’re confused and feel alone and distrustful, you’ve got unique issues…
Sza would be free to choose between the two!
https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-by-the-numbers
MI is prevalent not only in the us.
Severe depression and mood swings might make it a bit impossible to control on second thought…
Maybe just an easy to trust resource which pops up and is easy to recommend online, but is also serious w/people being on meds.
Yeah, “discourse software” how do you pay to set it up and how do you do it?
who is szadmin? how does s/he do it?
I think the set up of this forum is so addicting. Instant updates when you get tagged. You can see the person typing a response. The more the merrier I guess although nobody judges bipolars here.
It’s wickedly expensive, actually. I am so amazed that it is still in use here.
Many have tried to copy our forum model in the past. None have succeeded. I assume it’s because this community is over 20 years old and we have so many regulars who keep us active. So new members feel more comfortable coming here where the community is already established.
I’ve made forums in the past but don’t have the money for starting a new one right now.
Yes and no. There simply aren’t enough of us who function at a super high level to warrant a separate community. We wound up with a small, private discussion on Facebook. I’m grateful for it as we can discuss the things there that aren’t possible here.
Okay, you know what to do, so do it.
Inside:
Peer support — We all experience peer support everyday, from telling our best friend our worries and fears to discussing the weather forecast with our neighbor. The Internet can connect people separated by time and space who might not meet otherwise, and the benefits include opportunities for social support and access to sources of information. The removal of social cues and social distinctions such as disability, race, and facial expressions through text-only communication can help the shyest people feel more confident about communicating with others. People can learn through sharing or questioning information, verbalizing opinions, weighing arguments, and active learning (27). Independent portals such as “Patient Opinion”2 in the UK provide a platform for patients to publish their stories about health care services. In Germany, “Diskussionsforum Depression”3 offers a portal for one specific disorder in the field of mental disorders. The primary function of this forum is to provide a space where mutual support is given and received by anyone affected by depression. Other unmoderated online sources such as Twitter or Facebook are also frequently used to exchange information or to seek help.
DISCLAIMER: I’m not claiming to be trustworthy or knowledgeable. I am selfish. I want to grow, to do that I need to share ideas. Nobody can shine brightly without support (and funding 
).
I like to take and use things from here and anything I can get because I’m an opportunist, and to use a figure of speech; I would rather someone else cut my firewood! I wanna start a fire. I don’t want to do the dirty work, shame on me. I might cut a bit of wood here and there if I get impatient.
Mostly I’m an impatient kid with a few liberal arts community college credits under his belt and a vague recollection of a long time of fear and sadness on medication.
I like to present myself as a good guy. Maybe I’m hard to trust. I feel the same way about myself.
Performance is an art, and I have been to the official school of bullshitting.
So, I’m trying to understand how crooked salespeople talk and do their things.
I am very much aware that I am impaired, but I still do and am doing things…
I am accomplishing me things, ie, me here right now.
…I feel like it might not work too…because even medicated bipolar patients are sensitive to triggers.
And some of those might be “interactional”, and so it might be a volatile place.
So, I think, grandiosity and depression might make it hard for these people to come together with others. 
Still, in dark moments, like the depths of depression, they may need to reach out as they feel isolated and without support.
We have not all got a family / significant other/ community situation which is really perfect and ideal.
If there are issues with social communication (fighting, hostility, neglect, toxic relationships, blaming, passive aggressiveness) I strongly believe that folks will turn to their mobile devices for entertainment and connection.
Maybe a whole lot!
This is a part of being isolated. Not just physically, but also up top.
Being isolated is part and parcel of sz!
I can’t connect through face to face communication. Reaching out here was my only way to fulfill my need for interaction without being expected too much of or pressured or seen as a ridiculous person.
Or simply feeling paranoid and scared and “not formidable”.
There are people being diagnosed and discharged everyday. If not every hour, though I haven’t got the numbers and am guessing.
To be totally honest, you might say I have no clue.
It was an extremely confusing and lonely time for me.
Freakin’ a!
If the significant other, or the parents or what have you are not supportive or involved, the person may find themself isolated. Social interaction is impaired in sz, and it was/is severely for me.
I had forgotten just how helpless and alone I felt!
I visited the family and caregiver forum to get these ideas.
Almost EVERYONE has a smart device now! Googling is an important source of information.
Social media is like an extended practical joke.
Quora is clunky and filled with advertising and useless answers. Reddit is purgatory.
@anon93437440 is being given a run for his money…
People rely on smart devices for entertainment and other things…but also connection.
There is an unreasonable amount of fake news and bullshitting out there.
It makes me tremble with anger to even think about that.
Hypothetical…one way to get a sick person who is post discharge to work toward recovery is to tell them to “man up” and so on…right?
The reality of the matter is that they may not understand what you’re saying on the semantics level.
Like, they might be more concerned with the fact that they find it hard to trust you.
Or they may be more concerned with the 6th century high school curriculum of the trivium and quadrivium!
Most anything is possible!
You cant expect people like that to know their â– â– â– â– .
If you foist responsibility on them, then they will collapse or bear it in some kindof awkward way.
And if they can even respond and want to do so, then they are formidable champions among the rest of us and in comparison to myself.
I’ve been on trials of 7 
atypical antipsychotics during the first two and a half years at very high dosages. 5 antidepressants!
And I was dying inside because I could not speak or think fast and needed human connection. I was just here in my mom’s basement unable to leave the house for fear.
And of course…we respond with “man up” and help yourself.
Leaving the house is climbing a hill to me. I can’t even drive anymore.
I am concerned with neither potholes nor turbulence.
I didn’t trust ■■■■■■■anyone…
Freakin’ a!
Truth is, we all have different thresholds, and what you label “cowardice” in another person may be an effort you could never imagine putting forth under the same circumstances.
All of these things are simply my opinions, my arguments and things I think.
And lord knows, I’ve got about👌this much understanding of any real matter, and I am hypomanic right now!
And, some have said being manic is like having garlic on your breath…you don’t notice it but everyone else does.
(and that makes you unattractive, and, if you keep pushing it, irredeemable)
I am going to take a shower, then put on my carpal tunnel brace. I will eat food. I will visit the fitness center. I will talk to my little brothers about school if they will have me.
Finally, I will read this and other things on here, and try to get some traction, which I get in my own way, because I experience unusual perceptions and form ideas and have different capacities than other people.
And I will try and find a way forward.
And with a “freakin a” I will go and try and do my pretend-life things. Editing my percieved scathing negativity and sarcasm makes my hand hurt.
Best.
I hate no one, I’m a bit off sorts, and I need to take some ibuprofen, and wash my hands and take a shower and put on my brace.
And ruin my reputation in the place which is my only source of fulfilling social intercourse. And hopefully put something in place which can piece me back together if things get bad.
I’m not optimistic about the future. In a moment I might be.
Life is fun and then not fun.
You learn about and respond and adapt to the changing obstacles in your condition.
I hope you are doing well @chess24
The reality is you gotta cut your own firewood to get anything going.
You also gotta cut your own kindling and get some matches.
Once you got the fire going then someone might bring you a few bundles of wood to build it bigger if they see potential.
Then when it’s really solid everybody will come roast marshmallows 
Way back when I think there was a site similar to this one. It obviously didn’t make it!
There’s a reason why you see beta fish in individual bowls and not all together in an aquarium when you’re in a pet store.
completely unrelated note but this song keeps popping up in my head 