Myptsd's Mental Health Support Fund (gofundme)

[Friday]

My apologies... I'm still skittish as hell about sharing anything PTSD related IRL. That, and after 2 years of hardcore isolation, means I have virtually no social media to speak of. :banghead:

I do have some contacts in the psych & neurology departments at a few universities (lol... and absolutely no shame at walking into schools I have no affiliation with). Since the share stuff has come up, I've been thinking about collating some of the Vault & TherapistRef & GoFundMe stuff and stapling them to the bulletin boards in various departments. Don't know if that would be helpful, or the wrong kind of attention, or even if there is a wrong kind of attention. Okay. Unless instructed otherwise, there are about 2 dozen universities who are about to get flyered over the next few weeks.

Random thought... Skoll Foundation...is an organization that funds companies & projects that make a difference. Here; as they describe themselves :

ABOUT
Jeff Skoll created the Skoll Foundation in 1999 to pursue his vision of a sustainable world of peace and prosperity. Led by CEO Sally Osberg since 2001, our mission is to drive large scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems. Social entrepreneurs are society’s change agents, creators of innovations that disrupt the status quo and transform our world for the better. By identifying the people and programs already bringing positive change around the world, we empower them to extend their reach, deepen their impact and fundamentally improve society. [DLMURL]http://www.skollfoundation.org/about/[/DLMURL]

Since you are one of society's change agents, @anthony... Changing all of our lives, and the lives of those we come into contact with for the better... This seems right up their alley.

 

[ms spock]

I have my thinking cap on about this. I have shared it once. My internet identity is vulcan themed, but I am thinking of getting some people with large followings to share this.

 

[joeylittle]

If this helps folks to understand how the facebook sharing works: this image is of a recent share I did. I completely understand the reluctance to "out" oneself; for me, the fear is that someone will come to the site and try and find me. For the record, in my case this is hyper-vigilance; a symptom I can challenge myself to question. Realistically, no one will come looking for me, and somewhere in my non-lizard brain, I know it.

I'd like to get to the point where I don't feel so wary. But until then, I just told a little white lie that made me feel safer. Feel free to borrow my little white lie. I use Facebook almost exclusively for professional networking.

The blacked out box is where you'd see my avatar and user name.

The statement below it, "if you've been looking for a mental health site to support, this is a good one. The site runner is a friend of mine. If you can't donate, share!" - that's my little white lie.

Everything else is exactly as it appears on my wall. I have it set to share to Friends; you can share to Public or Custom also.

I hope perhaps this will help some folks feel a little braver. The platform has been up for 14 days, and there have only been 10 total shares - 5 on Facebook and 5 on Twitter. I don't write this to shame people, not at all - I only want to point out that we could use more activity promoting the GoFundMe.

Thanks for reading!

 

[digger]

I understand the disappointment about the lack of shares for this, I have been trying to work out a way of sharing it that doesn't pose any risk to my anonymity here and haven't been able to come up with one yet - I imagine this is true for many people.

Sharing that page doesn't associate you with this website on your Facebook or Twitter pages... it just says you personally support the cause, that's it.

I guess my worry is that posting any link with this site will encourage people I know to click through to the site to find out more about it (for some people that perhaps wouldn't be a problem - for me it is too much of a risk) I wouldn't expect people I know to support or donate to a cause, just on my say so, without checking it out more first if I didn't have a personal connection to it...
To some extent I guess it depends on how people use social media generally. I don't generally share a lot of 'causes', ones I do share generally link into my life in some way. I think people who know me would be curious about why I am sharing it.

Not saying this to put anyone else off, just to explain why it might not be getting as many shares as are needed - I don't think it's people not wanting to support it, it's not knowing how to without it raising personal attention rather than attention for the cause.

Will continue racking the brain....

 

[cherryblossom]

Shared on my facebook page, so that's 226 more views. . . . and already shared onwards by one of my friends as I was writing this!! :)

 

[ms spock]

I copied it and pasted it on twitter.

 

[Nighthawk]

Figuered I would try it again and it re shared. So I will share it at least once a week to facebook.

 

[Nighthawk]

It really upsets me that with all the members we have that this has had minimal shares.

 

[The Albatross]

I don't do social networking of any sort. Sorry. I have had my thinking cap on... as to how to support the effort, but even the emails I get are from members or former members.

 

[ms spock]

It really upsets me that with all the members we have that this has had minimal shares.

I think it is a shame thing and a fear of the stigma of mental illness. Some people use the name that they use here on their social media, never thinking that the two would cross.

For some people it is the fear of people knowing what they have.

There have to be some other ways to do it.

Lots of people wouldn't read this thread as well, there are only a few people that read all the way across the forum. I miss stuff.

 

[Tanishq]

There have to be some other ways to do it.

I am trying to work out that, of course I do want to support this place.

 

[joeylittle]

I think it is important to evaluate whether you have a realistic fear of being discovered or whether it's a distorted fear. I'm not saying all fears are distorted; I do know that when I sat with it, I realized that my fear was.

If you Facebook share with any comment about how you saw it on a friends wall - I'm not sure anyone would question beyond that.

(Then again, everyone's life is different).

Talking Facebook: if you were picking up the "share" not from gofundme directly, but instead re-sharing from a friends wall, would that make a difference for anyone?