This is a thread for anyone to vent, if needed, and offer support through stressful holiday times. If you can't yell at your relatives at the dinner table, you can come in here to rant if need be.
Holiday Support
Forum rules
We ask that users looking for general, ongoing emotional support post in this area of the boards, and that you use this space to both ask for, give and receive that support primarily from each other, rather than from our staff and volunteers. As a staff, we simply are often too overextended with all we need to do in running the organization and its services to do that for extended periods of time, and one of our main aims of our community at the boards has always been to facilitate peers to better be there for each other.
Users often report that they have no in-person peers they can talk to or seek support from: we want this to be a space for online peer support and somewhere everyone can get some practice asking for, getting and giving support so that doing it with people in your lives feels more doable.
Please remember that neither staff, volunteers nor your fellow users can provide or replace mental healthcare when that is something you need. Users struggling with issues like anxiety, depression, abuse or physical health issues are strongly encouraged to seek out qualified, in-person help with those issues in addition to peer or staff support.
We ask that users looking for general, ongoing emotional support post in this area of the boards, and that you use this space to both ask for, give and receive that support primarily from each other, rather than from our staff and volunteers. As a staff, we simply are often too overextended with all we need to do in running the organization and its services to do that for extended periods of time, and one of our main aims of our community at the boards has always been to facilitate peers to better be there for each other.
Users often report that they have no in-person peers they can talk to or seek support from: we want this to be a space for online peer support and somewhere everyone can get some practice asking for, getting and giving support so that doing it with people in your lives feels more doable.
Please remember that neither staff, volunteers nor your fellow users can provide or replace mental healthcare when that is something you need. Users struggling with issues like anxiety, depression, abuse or physical health issues are strongly encouraged to seek out qualified, in-person help with those issues in addition to peer or staff support.
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Mo
- previous staff/volunteer
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- Primary language: English
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Holiday Support
Getting into the end-of-year holiday season means, for many of us, more time spent with family. This can be great, but it can also be stressful, if we're spending a lot of time with family members who pry about relationships, criticize our bodies or choices, or say sexist, racist, homophobic, etc. things in the middle of what should be cheerful gatherings.
This is a thread for anyone to vent, if needed, and offer support through stressful holiday times. If you can't yell at your relatives at the dinner table, you can come in here to rant if need be.
This is a thread for anyone to vent, if needed, and offer support through stressful holiday times. If you can't yell at your relatives at the dinner table, you can come in here to rant if need be.
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Sam W
- scarleteen staff/volunteer
- Posts: 9849
- Joined: Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:06 am
- Age: 33
- Awesomeness Quotient: I raise carnivorous plants
- Primary language: english
- Pronouns: she/her
- Sexual identity: queer
- Location: Desert
Re: Holiday Support
Boosting this again, as folks might need it in the coming days.
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Sam W
- scarleteen staff/volunteer
- Posts: 9849
- Joined: Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:06 am
- Age: 33
- Awesomeness Quotient: I raise carnivorous plants
- Primary language: english
- Pronouns: she/her
- Sexual identity: queer
- Location: Desert
Re: Holiday Support
The holidays are rapidly approaching for many of us, and the political landscape may make them extra stressful. So I'm bringing this thread back, as well as adding these two links that offer advice for getting through family gatherings.
https://captainawkward.com/2016/11/12/9 ... ry-advice/
http://www.latimes.com/home/garden/la-h ... story.html
https://captainawkward.com/2016/11/12/9 ... ry-advice/
http://www.latimes.com/home/garden/la-h ... story.html
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Sam W
- scarleteen staff/volunteer
- Posts: 9849
- Joined: Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:06 am
- Age: 33
- Awesomeness Quotient: I raise carnivorous plants
- Primary language: english
- Pronouns: she/her
- Sexual identity: queer
- Location: Desert
Re: Holiday Support
Tis the season to boost this thread again.