Posted by fallsfall on June 29, 2004, at 7:44:03
In reply to Re: YOU ARE WELCOME :-) » fallsfall, posted by sfmom on June 28, 2004, at 23:24:07
Geri - how are you doing? If you can put something in your subject line (like "Help!" or like the subject I put in this post), then Babblers who haven't been following this particular thread will read it, too. Please let us know how you are doing.
But, as always, IF YOU ARE IN DANGER, PLEASE find real-live-local help: Talk to your mom or your friend or call a crisis hotline listed in your phonebook or call your therapist (do you have a therapist yet, Geri?) or call a hospital emergency room or call 911.
I started a thread on the Babble Administration board asking for someone to write or find a How-To for Open. Click on this link to see if we've made progress yet: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20040527/msgs/361585.html
The short answer is that in the section (at the top and bottom of the lists of posts) that has links to all of the different Babble boards, there is a link called "Psycho-Babble Open". This brings you to a Yahoo! Chat Group where Babblers sometimes hang out and chat. The most active times seem to be 10PM EDT -> whenever people go to sleep (though you can often find one or two people there from 7 or 8PM EDT on). Sometimes there are only a couple of people, sometimes there are 10-12. At other times during the day there may or may not be people in Open.
If a Babbler is having a crisis, those of us who frequent Open can often find others who are online to help. If noone is there and you need help, you can start a new thread on the social board with a subject like "I need help - can someone come to Open?". I once asked a small group of people to meet me in Open in the middle of the day when I was having a crisis - they were wonderful and helped me through my crisis.
Realtime support can be really valuable.
Falls.
My hotmail account is Babble Fallsfall.
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