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Post #912870

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Bingowings
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The Place to Go for Emotional Support
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Date created
28-Feb-2016, 9:25 AM

Possessed said:

Absolutely. Just wouldn’t feel comfortable opening up myself.

The reason I asked is if you could volunteer some time to help people in a similar situation as yourself you could talk about your own experiences contextually.

So if a chap was talking about how low he felt and how the thoughts of suicide were becoming frequent and pressing you could express your solidarity by recounting some experiences of your own and maybe share some of your coping strategies with him.
Usually the training given for such roles is as useful for yourself as it would be for the people you might help.

It’s just an idea but it might be worth just looking around and seeing what sort of voluntary services are around that you could help out with and in turn receive some help from by the act of helping.