Group Theorpy works, it helps you bounce off ideas, and on an anominus forum it works even better.
But this place, esspeicalay most of hte people here, arn't anominius.

And there is a great danger of replacing real life friends with online ones, and that leads to a self distrcutive path.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 0:08, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I don't think anyone would give up real friends for the nutters on here.
Well maybe a couple.
( girlinthehole, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 0:11, Reply)

It's an easy mistake to make.
In a world where you want to shut everything out, all the emotions and reactions, you'll become more absorbed in it, and the more you are, the less your offline mates see if you.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 0:15, Reply)

Group therapy works.
Expecting to be able to unburden yourself online, especially somewhere like b3ta, without getting horrifically negative reactions (from trolls, people that just don't like you or indeed folks who're just in bad mood) that can be really quite damaging - that strikes me as an error.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 0:12, Reply)

Depends on how attached you are.
A negative comment from a stranger would mean nothing to me, one from someone form here would mean something, and from real life mates it'll be really negative.

This place removes a lot of the whole human contact experiance (facial expresions, moods, phsyical..etc), so it's too easy.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 0:19, Reply)

yeah, naivety is a dangerous thing.
there is no perfect system to deal with the multi-faceted thing that is flawed human psychology.
and flawed is what we all are.
every single one of us.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 9 Oct 2009, 0:19, Reply)

it certainly can be unhealthy to replace reality with virtual.
i wonder just how many of the tens of thousands of b3tans actually know each other?
i'm not sure that an anonymous forum is any more or less effective. the trust that grows in a psych group is a different kind of trust than that which can develope online, surely?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 9 Oct 2009, 0:16, Reply)