How Can You Find an ONline Mentor?
Question by Emma: How Can You Find An ONline Mentor?
[rewrite]I am 14 and I have 8 mental illnesses. I struggle with eating disorders, cutting, and suicidal ideation. I often feel so alone, because my parents don’t love me. They tell me how worthless I am, and once even told me to just go kill myself. . . It hurts. I don’t have friends. I isolate myself. But, I really want a mentor figure in my life. Is there a program that matches adults online with struggling youth, like myself?
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Answer by Kaytee Evans
Hi,
I’m sorry to hear you’re struggling.
I think you should check out this website called http://www.recoveryourlife.com/forum/
It’s a very understanding and supportive website that deals with many problems including self-harm, depression, eating disorders (including overeating), addictions (such as drug and alcohol) anxiety (&& panic attacks, including anxiety disorders like OCD), suicide attempts, feelings and thoughts, bullying and abuse (including sexual and emotional abuse), trauma, and general mental health problems such as personality disorders, bipolar disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, ect.
You can post about your problems and gain advice and support, it’s full of caring people who are going through the same things as you are in a complete non-judgemental atmosphere, you feel a lot less alone and you don’t get stupid answers or the old ’snap out of it’, ’stop being stupid’ comments you get on Yahoo Answers.
The website also contains lots of information, how to get help, articles to read, fun and distractions, chat (like msn with others who are suffering), Live Help (one-2-one counselling – these people are not trained counsellors, but people who are normal members of the site but go that little bit further to help others), Supporters who can e-mail anytime, day or night to gain emotional support (again not trained professionals).
The site is free, but to in order to have access to everything available on the website you have to sign up, which only takes a few minutes. You don’t have to be a certain age to join (even if you’re 40, you can still sign up, they have a ’veterans corner’ for older members, including advice on topics more relevant to adult life such as university, long term relationships, child-care and employment) The site is open 24/7, all year round.
So please have a look, I think it could really help you – especially if you can’t talk to anyone in ‘real life’ or have no one to turn to.
Hope you feel better soon.
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