I snuck a peek, but they won't let you peek too far without an account. I wasn't able to tell how active their forums are. They certainly do cover allot of medical conditions.

Nope, but I’d proceed with caution, rose. Just a week ago I had to fend off the advances of a support group leader who not only guaranteed that he could cure my PTSD for me, he could cure my permanent kidney damage since that was all just in my head, too. Stunned at the lack of knowledge of anatomy on his part, especially as to the location of the kidneys not being in the head but in the human torso, I asked for him to spell out his guarantee to me all over again, and he did. He assured me that 98% of all illness was just in the head, and his support could cure them all.

Needless to say, when I worked as a hospital chaplain at Loyola University Medical Center, I prayed with patients, especially because we were a religious hospital. But never, ever did prayer replace clinical treatment. Plus, prayer was only offered and accepted about 50% of the time, whereas clinical treatment was given 100% of the time.


Be careful about smart patients who might be smarty pants patients like the ones who offered me instant cures last week. Some get to be full of themselves, and at Daily Strength we have the Rules of the Road in place to prevent that. I get my own medical advice from WebMD online. It’s monitored by medical health professionals who know what they’re talking about, and it’s free.

Thanks. i join in 2019 and log out because I felt ignored. I rejoin and was excited to and post I think 4 times and even asked questions and once again no one respond. I returned maybe 2-4 weeks ago. I thought of DS where someone is going to respond even if it is just one person. I do not like to compare but DS is special support online support group. It is sad BUT I am I told myself DS is more supportive and much friendlier

DS has quite allot of inactive forums to help you feel ignored. When I am scoping out new forums and/or websites, the first thing I look at is the dates of the posts. There is typically no point to posting in a forum whose last entry is years old. Breathing life into an inactive forum/website/live support group is a long and tedious process.

I've only ever been on one DS site, rose, this one. I can't really speak to how other forums do or don't respond to folks. I've been here since June 2012, and so far here, at least, I haven't been ignored. I know a forum's energy can come and go, and so I'm grateful this has kept going for 9 years now. Knock on wood.

Understandable Muji. Ignored once ever now and then is normal.

Still with you today, rose, and every day.

Thanks Muji