If anybody needs to talk, just loney or needs to vent. please feel free to email me at thelightinthedarknes@hotmail.com.
i am a trained crysis counciler. i was depressed for years and nearly killed myself twice. I have been where you been. there is a way back.
It took me along time to get better, but i DID get better.
So yeah, ill help anyone who wants it. email me anytime.
and if you havent signed this pettion then please do. it takes 20 seconds/ literaly. no strings or spam i swear. its for illness awareness.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/dysautonomia-awareness.html
if you need help email me anytime.
Peace. 🙂
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And what does that training entail if I may ask?
its a 2 year course. level 7 degree. i work as a rape counselor by day.
I mean, what are you taught?
did those who were training you know your background? just because, I considered switching proffessions to social work or councilling, but I’m not right in the head myself, and would need years of therapy myself before it would be responsible to give advice to other people. So did you wait until you were better before starting yr training? or was there overlap? and if so was everyone ok with that?
Fair enough. it starts with being taught to always keep calm, and non judgemental. then you learn all about the different types of crysis situations.eg. been raped or abused. you then learn all about peoples mental state at moments like this. then you learn all the different things to get and say in the perticular situation. i will give an example. if i get a call and someone has been raped, first has it just happened? if so i call police and ambulance, next find out if there in a safe place, if not find out if in serious danger, if so try to get them to hide if there is no clear exit. else run for it. next find out if there hurt, and its usually just a apply pressure type response from me but it can vary. for instance if they have been stabed, should not remove the knife. and then i just talk to them. try to keep them calm. or if they were raped and just want to talk, then i will listen, i was also taught about techniques to help people get past things like rape. should i go on?
@ one_day
there was no overlap. i nearly died when i was 19, i then went to a series of therapist and meds. didnt really help. i then started meditation. i now meditate for and hour every day and i am a very happy person. it took months before the meditation realy worked, but it did.
and what i did was a college course so my mental health was never questioned, because i was no longer on meds and didnt see a therapist anymore.
i imagion having been in the situation your self would only benifit you. you achually understand. i hope i answered your Question ok.
That is great. You are a survivor and you are turning your bad experience around and finding positive aplication for it. I think many on this site have gone through trauma and refuse to talk to therapists because they dont beleive therapists understand. I hope they see that you are different – truly Unique
@ one_day
Thank you. although i dont think im am quite as unique as you think, i know quite a few people from doing my course who truly do want help people.
So just remember you are not alone.
Your mind can be your worst ememy or your best friend.
so my suggestion is to harnes it.
@ Unique: Kudos.
@ one_day: I think you’d be great at doing something like that. I’ve found your comments on SP both kind and intelligent. Maybe one doesn’t need to do it face-2-face in the beginning if one feels too unstable?
@one_day
i agree with muspelhem, from what i have seen of your comments you are good at this talking to people malarky. your a fan of tough love. i will say to try a go a little easier on people, you dont know how fragile a state they are in, people need a friend, not another authority figure.
but other than that yeah, i think you really can help people.
Keep it up.
@Mus and Unique, thanks youre very kind. and likewise, I have noticed you around the traps and it’s comforting to see much needed logic from you. You’re right, tough love is right, there are other people who will flatter the ego etc so I don’t feel the need to pander to that whim. You will always get the truth from me, that is one of the reasons i don’t want to do this proffessionally.. I think I can be dangerous. Also, it would be irresponsible of me to enter that prffession, when I have issues myself!
One more person signed up to the pettion, thank you who ever you were.
I’d sign, except I don’t live in the US.
i dont live in the us either, but my friend does,
besides awareness is awareness. but theres no pressure on any of you guys to sign it.
its just a little personal battle of mine.
might aswell fight for somthing 🙂
Fine. There.
thanks alot. 🙂
if the whole did a little we would fix alot.
I just signed it, I have nothing to lose.
You are signer #1964
And I gave it a Facebook like.
ironically, I’m certified as a Suicide Intervention Specialist and worked in that for a few years. I guess I never really held the belief that suicide is wrong in all cases.
@mama, can I ask what is your case specifically?
I called a suicide hotline once. Feel a bit bad because I told them I didn’t think talking was helping. But when I hung up I felt better… turns out a good rant really helps. So thankyou, and if anyone ever told you that you weren;t helping, it’s not true.