User:Seanetal

Hey all, I'm pretty new here and will most likely be hanging around in the Mental Health and related topics though I might explore and post elsewhere as well. So what do I put in a bio?

I'll start with why I am interested in Mental Health. In 1996 I went on a business trip and began having memories of childhood sexual abuse when I drove past the location where the abuse happened. I dealt with flashbacks and nightmares over the next few months alone. I lost my business, became depressed.

In January of 1997 I attempted suicide for the first time. I didn't want to die, I just wanted everything to stop. I was tired of not sleeping, tired of flashbacks, and tired of being afraid. Luckily I was not functioning well enough to succeed with my suicide attempt and ended up in the hospital instead.

While I was in the hospital, I was diagnosed with Posttraumatic stress disorder and decided I needed to know more about what I was facing. I started putting the information I knew on a small website (my background was in [Graphic Design] and [Web Design]) and others began finding it. Soon that small site grew to include other mental illnesses and turned into Mental Health Matters.

I learned that there was a need for the information and decided to put the rest of my life toward collecting and distributing what I could find to those who needed it. I formed a company called Get Mental Help and started expanding Mental Health Matters into other areas. One of these turned into Psych Forums, a forum that allows users to talk about mental illness anonymously.

The sites are advertising supported because we don't really have a product to sell, but we do have bills.