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Self help forum
I think we should have a self-help forum. A forum for discussing self help products such as the power of now, overcoming sa step by step, the work, sedona etc. Basically for people who want to improve their sa using self help books.
It would be my favourite forum here |
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Re: Self help forum
I think 'The Social Anxiety Room' is intended for that, but posts with good practical information can become fairly dilute on that part of the forum.
Something I suggested in a thread there, and figure I might as well suggest here as well, is that the 200+ post links thread be started fresh and all the useful links etc. be organized in the first post instead of throughout the entire thread: http://www.social-anxiety-community....54&postcount=5 |
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I think its too general to have only one forum for everything, maybe we should split it into general sa and self help/medication ?
it would mean the self help posts would be seen by more people. that would be great |
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Yea that would be helpful alright, though may be a bit tricky in figuring out how to rearrange the different subforums (e.g. what would 'The Social Anxiety Room' become? would one be another subforum within the other etc?).
Wonder what the mods/admins thoughts are on these ideas? |
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Do we really need one? Doesn't the SA Room serve that purpose? :hmmm:
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What do the mods think? |
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gets the thumbs up from me.
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Thumbs up from me. I have loads of self help resources (books, audio series etc) that I would love to 'share' (dont mention copyright ahem) with others.
It would be great to have somewhere that was just plain positive/empowering on here. |
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whatever happened to AAAli, i wonder?
i think maybe a broader sub-forum might be a better idea; something like 'The Recovery Room' - not dead keen on the idea of a forum dedicated purely to the promotion of self-help products over members' own experiences. they can often give the short-term illusion of a fix, and people post about them in the first flush of enthusiasm, but rarely do they offer anything more lasting. |
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We haven't fully discussed this back here yet, but my own personal initial thoughts would be to look at something like Arfed's suggestion of having a sticky in the SA Room with links, perhaps even a collection of merged threads, relating to self-help stuff - like the existing Collection of SA/self-help book recommendation threads and links to free CBT sticky thread. I reckon that would strike a pretty good balance between accommodating identifying useful self-help stuff without creating unnecessary clutter quite nicely.
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Perhaps if the mods focused on keep discussions on certain self help products to one topic and merged topics that are basically about the same thing, help stop the clutter!? |
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Note the distinct lack of people posting 'recommend a book' type threads in the SA Room in recent weeks and months. |
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I'm surprised, nobody seems to be actually contributing to it. Any idea how frequently it gets viewed? |
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I don't think a sticky topic will be the best solution, because it just doesn't allow much discussion about each self improvement product. It also makes you feel like you have to read throught all the hundred of pages so you don't repost something. It would just get very confusing. It would be much better to have a small forum than a large confusing topic. Why would you opt for an unorganised confusing topic rather than an organised easy to use forum? Is the database size limited or something? It just doesn't make sence to me |
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since yesterday i meant, clearly |
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Thats alot more work for the mods. Besides if there was a topic full of links it would be great in a self help forum.
A topic just doesn't allow as much conversation as a whole forum. |
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Any reason we can't have a trial run or something?
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I think a self help forum is a really good positive idea. I agree that The Recovery Room would be a suitable name.
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The Recovery room is a great name
I think it would be best to cover a wide range of topics such as: -social skills -product notes, help and reviews -techniques -motivational/useful quotes -fitness (To shy to go to the gym or ask someone else for help?) -appearence/fashion (can't ask your friends about it?) -productivity/will power We could have a sticky topic for motivational quotes, useful links and topics of interest and possibly a topic where members say there top 5 or 10 products. That would be great |
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We are still deciding the best way to implement this section within the board.
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It would be a nice, positive welcome addition to the boards, and would encourage people to be proactive at battling SA...it gets a definite thumbs up from me. And implementing it at the start of a new year would be great too, for all the people (like me!) that have pledged to be more proactive about their SA this year (maybe there could also be a success stories thread, for people that have overcome their SA and want to give us all some handy hints and positive feedback - I really appreciate those type of posts a lot but atm they tend to be quickly lost in the Social Anxiety room) |