this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
86 points (96.7% liked)
Asklemmy
54740 readers
467 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I have bipolar and addiction issues. I’ve been sober and stable for 8 years. With a lot of work and therapy and meds I’m down to 2 episodes a year and stay very stable outside of those. I’ve also started a program in my city for addicts with mental health issues, for half the month it’s a peer support group, the other weeks we bring in local therapists to run free workshops on DBT skills and principles. This is often the only time many of my regulars can access mental healthcare. For someone with a major mental illness and low education I feel so proud of myself
That’s so dope! Congratulations bettering yourself and others in the process! 🥳🥳🥳
That is great you are able to facilitate that! My wife was in a DBT group during COVID, so I overheard some bits of stories from time to time.
Their group disbanded after something got shut down with the provider running it, and I worried about a lot of those people losing their people to talk to.
My wife's story wasn't so bad, so she was able to transition away from group, but some of the people in that group had it really tough.
I'm very grateful for DBT helping my wife get her life back in order after some huge setbacks, and now she is very successful in her daily life thanks in a huge part to that group. You are doing such a great thing making those services available to people!
What’s great about this is its independent, we meet at an Alano Club in town (a building where AA meetings take place) so there’s no provider to close. We just hit 2 years next month and one of the regulars is starting her own branch of it so there will be two a week. I’m so proud of her for getting to a place she can run one on her own!
Very nice! One of the people from my wife's group tried to have a thing afterwards where'd they'd meet and hang out, but they only had 2 or so meets before nobody was coming by.
Glad to see you doubling in capacity! Best of luck to both of you! ❤️ It blows me away how society would just be fine letting everyone fall through the cracks otherwise.
Yeah it’s insane. One thing that I found amusing/horrific was I messaged close to 45 local therapists to work with. We have approximately 9 that come yearly and absolutely 0 men
I was a bit shocked when I read you had actual therapists coming! Getting a group together in itself is a great achievement, let alone getting therapists involved.
It's sad that no men participate. Getting men mental help seems to be difficult, and I'm sure some would prefer having another man to talk to.
I volunteer doing wildlife rehab, and though almost everyone seems to say they love animals, that's over 90% women led too. Come on guys, where you at?!
Yeah, that said many of the peers are men. I am technically a man myself and I know many of the men who come appreciate having a place to speak about these things in a safe spot.