Seen a few links here and there for private C-PTSD discord/signal/matrix/etc groups, but most of the links I’ve found are dead. Seems to be a “you gotta know a guy that knows a guy” sort of schtick, so anybody here know anything? There’s nothing here for heavier stuff on lemmy, and all the public stuff everywhere else sucks, so anything is appreciated, thanks.
If anybody finds a JavaScript-ptsd group let me know
Oh, hey, C-PTSD is one of mine! I’d start a community, but I have avoidance issues. (Ha!)
Seriously though I’d join a community somewhere and help where I can.
I’m willing to start one, but since i don’t like disclosing personal information it probably won’t (cant) be kickstarted by me.
What do you mean exactly? I’m very confused by that lol, somethings probably flying right over my head, but I don’t see why you’d need to disclose any personal information to start something.
I mean, I don’t like going too in depth about myself so i’m not going to make too many posts there, but maybe pin some resources
Hey! I personally have C-PTSD. The reason for mine is a bit personal, but I’m sure I can offer some support and advice if you need any.
My community is more general purpose, but C-PTSD evidence-based resources (such as scientific positive psychology research on resilience, mindfulness, etc.) is literally the top thing in my to-do list.
Expect a C-PTSD resources post within 24 hours from now in !Help_Others@lemmy.blahaj.zone
And of course, if you post a specific question, I’ll answer it there as well. It’s still a new community, so please share it with everyone you know!
Hey there! Yes please, I’d deeply appreciate that! And thank you for the effort of all this, I’ll go check it out right now!
I also heard there’s a community here called “communitypromo” or something that people sometimes refer to, maybe try posting there and see if it helps attract more people to your community? No clue how effective it is though, but can’t hurt to try I guess!
Posted! I’ll finish updating this with more resources by next week: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23037245
Thank you for letting me know about communitypromo! I’ll check it out.
Interesting community you have. I have added it to the sidebar
Oh my gosh, thank you so much. 🥺 If you know of any evidence-based mental health resources, I’ll create a post of them.
I will, thanks and no problem :)
To clarify, are you prioritizing a private group, or is public fine? If you mean a counterpart to /r/CPTSD, I see !cptsd@lemmy.ml, though I know a lot of people have beef with that server. I would support starting a similar community elsewhere if you may be up for it.
That shows as no posts for me?
Maybe sonething is blocking your access because there are 3 new posts in just as many days.
Great thanks
Hey there, thanks for the reply. Either is fine honestly, or both, whatevers out there these days that doesn’t suck. Though that one is completely dead unfortunately, no activity on it.
There’s barely anything here on lemmy from browsing around for a while tbh, so I’ll take anything else outside of it if possible or if anyone knows anything.
I’m assuming by that last statement that you don’t know anything personally? Or are you implying that there’s legit just nothing out there anymore if you don’t already have your group?
The only thing I found other than the subreddit and that community is Out of the Storm, so we could certainly start a new one if you wanna try sticking to Lemmy.
Communities grow by content, and people have to contribute, so we have to be the change and try to regularly contribute ourselves; open-ended questions come to mind. One of us could start it by copying over question posts from /r/CPTSD and anothee, of us could pitch awareness in new-community-promoting Lemmy communities.
Oh damn, an old school internet forum? Is that one any good?
I get you, but there just doesn’t seem to be much of a crowd here for anything but politics and tech in the first place, same for the whole of the fediverse tbh, the few people that have tried hosting more “normie” communities here on lemmy always fizzle out, I saw a community where it’s just one person posting by themselves and at most they get a few comments and that’s about it, most of the time they don’t get anything beyond some upvotes and downvotes, things don’t seem to go anywhere here unless your preaching to the existing choir, so not sure how I or you would be any different in that regard, this is the only mental health/safe space community on here that’s even remotely populated and it’s not even close to the amount of the tech and political stuff.
If people here cared about this stuff then I think some of them would’ve already tried all of this, wouldn’t they? Again the few that’ve tried fizzle out very quickly and move on, people here seem generally content with things as they to the detriment of us causals trying to escape the usual social media platforms, not many “normies” here it seems, so no idea how you’d even get a ball rolling when there’s no audience for it here beyond like, maybe 4 people or something at best lol.
It’s a chicken and the egg sorta situation, there’s not many active normal communities here because there’s not many normal people around, and because of that no normal person will want to come here unless they literally have no choice, and so you get an echo chamber of like, 2 topics and not much else, with an audience that’s totally fine with that but puts normies off even more as a result, so how exactly do you break that cycle? Copy and pasting open ended questions somewhere here might not do anything if there’s no one around interested in it in the first place, I’m a nobody so I don’t know much about how to go about this exactly, this stuffs beyond my capabilities, but so far mastodon was the closest we got to something niche turning mainstream, and even then it didn’t really go anywhere for long before people just ended up flocking to bluesky if they even bothered leaving twitter, people already know what they want and want to only stay with that, very difficult to overcome or change that it seems.
Though don’t get me wrong with all this rambling, not against it at all obviously by my presence here alone, I’d love to stick on lemmy and actually use it as a viable alternative to reddit (I’m hoping for it infact). You can go for it if you want, I’m not objecting, just being honest and saying that it’s an uphill battle from my perspective as someone looking at all of this from a causal perspective, so personally I’d rather just be in preexisting groups and communities then play the long “host a community about a very neglected topic and hope people give a damn” game in a niche environment that already has it’s priorities set, don’t think I have that energy in me tbh, also, I feel like it’s a bad idea for a “mentally ill” person to be in a leading/authority role, but that’s just me. I envy those who managed to catch the train and into those private support groups, cause this sucks out here, goddamn…
Well, this is just how it is. We may never see the level of activity on here that you want because Lemmy doesn’t exactly have advertising. People like me on here are idealists and proactive about trying to generate content and not get ourselves down for a lack of responses (too much, anyway). There is not really a point to being on Lemmy if a currently hyperactive community is what you want, but the communities that I’m a part of are active enough to my satisfaction (and they’re not merely politics and tech).
I recently made a post in a community of <150 members that didn’t have anything in literal months, yet it amassed dozens of comments in days. You just have to put yourself out there with your questions. If you want to take a DAE (Does Anybody Else…) poll, or try to get insight, just post it. Hopefully people will come. If I really want responses, then I may multi-post it elsewhere.
That message board seemed very active, yeah; it had 3 new posts by unique authors on the day when I linked it, IIRC. So I guess you could abandon this place or not and keep trying to help it grow with us, even if just by duplicating what you put elsewhere; there’s hardly any harm done by crossposting. I only recently found this community and was never very active in /r/CPTSD, but I occasionally lurk and will talk if I think I have something meaningful to say.
Activity is a paradox; the more people observe existing activity, the more likely they’ll participate. This is true even IRL with cities vs. towns, etc.
Seconded. 🤞🏼
