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Pulse
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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Sam W
- previous staff/volunteer
- Posts: 10320
- 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: Coast
Pulse
It's been a year since the Pulse shooting, and all the discussion around it in the next few days may bring up some tough feelings for people. This is a space to vent and support each other around those feelings.
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow/with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go/turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
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thewrit3r
- not a newbie
- Posts: 181
- Joined: Wed May 03, 2017 10:07 am
- Age: 27
- Awesomeness Quotient: I’m pretty smart
- Primary language: English
- Pronouns: She/her
- Sexual identity: Bisexual
- Location: North Carolina
Re: Pulse
I still can't believe that happened. It saddens me to think there are people out there with so much hate in their heart. This is why I believe we need gun control, but we also need more compassion. We can't let things like this keep happening. This is why I won't accept people brushing off LGBT issues because they don't already have "all the right". People are still pushing them so that it is harder for them to be in relationships, adopt, etc. Society still doesn't fully accept different sexualities despite the progress we made. And it may seem small at first but when you let that hatred fester without anyone stopping you or changing your mind, it creates things like the pulse shooting. It wasn't just a mass shooting; it was a hate crime. Changing laws is one thing, but changing minds is a whole other notion. It's just like with African Americans and slavery; even when it was over the mindset wasn't, so they were still treated poorly. People need to keep doing everything they are to embrace diversity and acceptance that we're all different so things like this don't happen, that love is the norm and hatred is not normal, and there are enough people to stop the hatred from manifesting into something awful.
"The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer."
-Carson McCullers
-Carson McCullers