Starting Over Talk - Peer Coaching Support Site

peace wrote:

Those who are MH professionals or training to be MH workers...please be very cautious and alert when posting here - posters are real people... and your advice or comments could be misinterpreted as specific diagnosis or professional advice.
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I completely agree. My comments here are intended to offer guidelines and DO NOT REPRESENT professional advice or consultation.

Above all be critical as to what you hear. Thhink about it, note how it feels. Only you can make your best decision about getting any kind of help.

PeggyHill

JesseGirl and PeggyHill, thanks for the great responses! Very informative and interesting.

Thank you Peace for being so observant as to what has been posted here in the past. There have been many cries for help and we have seen people that have been actually sucicidal. I have talked to a couple of them myself. I am a retired mental health therapist and it really breaks my heart to see such anquish in some of the posters lifes. I think we should just suggest they seek help in their home town. In a very discreet private message, not in a post.

Thanks for the info! That's just what I was looking for....some guidelines really!!!

Now........the hard part will be on my end trying to help them "see" that they need help instead of using me as their therapist. I try to give common sense advice...but I am not trained in the field!! AND....it's exhausting!!!!

I do appreciate you all!!

I don't see anybody trying to practice therapy or counseling in this thread. There is a disclaimer at the very bottom of this web site too. I know as the owner of this site I have upset some of the users because I have made it clear that the purpose of this site is to discuss the show and not offer help to people. It's not that people don't find some support her but we have had some people coming here thinking they were going to be helped like those on the show have been.


However I have decided to close this thread since it has gone way off track from the orginal thread. If you would like to continue this discussion please start a new thread in the "Beyond The Show" area of the forum.

Hello. I am a certified Addictions Counselor, and I hold a Bachelors in Social Work.

I enjoy SO, but dont get to watch much this season. Last year, many of the exercises really threw me for a loop, and those of us who have worked in residential treatement programs have been known to use some strange strategies to get a clients attention.

If this year is the same, I would have to watch it all carefully to comment, and even then its tricky. Just watching it on tv will not give me all the info I would need to help someone. There is much that is edited because of time and yes...ratings. Not really helpful to the watching professional.