ForLikeMinds
ForLikeMinds is an online peer support community for people living with or supporting someone with mental illness. The ForLikeMinds platform is an online community of over 50,000 people focused on mental health. ForLikeMind aims to pursue Recovery and Wellness by
- Overcoming Isolation: by finding and creating groups & to find people with similar background
- Engage and Empower: share knowledge and support in peer groups and one-on-one & to discover community strength
- Control Your Experience: easily manage interactions, stay anonymous, private and secure at no cost
ForLikeMinds is dedicated to the recovery and wellness of people living with or supporting someone with mental illness, substance use, or a stressful life event. We empower members to connect and engage in relatable micro-communities of people with similar backgrounds and experiences. This journey starts with hope and is nourished by the support of like minds sharing their lived experience.
ForLikeMind approach is innovative and highly attuned to the experiences and needs of those affected by conditions and stressful life events. That is because of our own experience. Unlike most mental health startup entrepreneurs, our founder has a mental health condition, which she has disclosed. She was diagnosed with bipolar I disorder, including major depressive disorder, over 15 years ago. Her family has supported her through extreme ups and downs. Our own mental health experiences have led us to build a platform that differs in important ways from other online mental health and substance use applications, including:
- Focus on mental health conditions - Several websites allow users to connect with people across all types of medical conditions. We think mental health should have its own community platform given the sheer magnitude of people who experience a mental health issue every year.
- Recognize interconnections between conditions and events.
- Understand that mental health and substance use conditions often co-occur. We provide a place for those conditions to be discussed individually or together.
- Recognize the importance of stressful life events and their connections to a wide range of mental health and substance use conditions.
- Believe that it is valuable to allow members to address these issues in combination or individually, which is how we’ve built our platform.
Focus on shared lived experience – Our founder was inspired in her own recovery by the recovery examples and efforts of others. Further, when our founder started taking ownership of her condition, she found that peer support had tremendous untapped potential to help so many people beyond her. Our personal backgrounds significantly influence the onset, treatment, and overall experience of our mental health. We, therefore, built ForLikeMinds to allow members to connect based on shared backgrounds and experience.
Focus on recovery and wellness – Our platform is founded on the potential to achieve recovery and wellness and to live life fully while managing a condition or stressful life event. The shared experience of others in similar situations provides hope, insights, and practical guidance to overcome stigma, self-empower, and achieve recovery.
A place for supporters too - We are the first dedicated mental health platform to serve interests of both people living with or supporting someone with a condition. No other online destination is tailored specifically to the needs of supporters. We embrace and acknowledge the important role supporters play in the recovery and well-being of their loved ones. Often overlooked is the importance of self-care and well-being of supporters while they care for their loved ones. We allow supporters to find and engage with other supporters to benefit from peer-based examples to help loved ones and themselves.
We are a community of wide ranging voices, opinions, and experiences. We hope to share in a respectful, tolerant, and collaborative environment. These Community Guidelines seek to enhance member engagement by establishing minimum standards of conduct. While Group Leaders are not employees or agents of ForLikeMinds, your Group Leader may choose to provide his or her own additional guidance, provided it does not conflict with our Community Guidelines. When you signed up for ForLikeMinds, you agreed to these Community Guidelines. If at any time you feel that you are unable to act in accordance with these Community Guidelines, you should leave our platform. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and understanding.
Bipolar Thriving - Bipolar Recovery Coaching
Bipolar Thriving - Bipolar Recovery Coaching
Bipolar Thriving is a bipolar recovery coach to help people living with bipolar reach recovery and to support caregivers in this process. Katherine Ponte has been living with severe bipolar I disorder with psychosis and extended periods of suicidal depression for 20 years. After struggling for many years, she now happily living in recovery. Knowing what it takes to overcome the many challenges to reach recovery she can help you and/or your loved one on the recovery journey with:
- Fostering & Sustaining Hope
- Regaining Self-Respect & Self-Esteem
- Moving Past Shame & Stigma
- Overcoming Withdrawal & Isolation
- Countering Reluctance To Seek Help
- Understanding & Accepting a Diagnosis
- Understanding & Coordinating Treatment
- Knowing What Questions To Ask Your Doctor
- Addressing Treatment Non-Compilance
- Talking About Difficult Topics
- Working As A Family Unit
- Building & Managing Personal Relationships
- Dealing With Relapses & Hospitalizations
- Developing & Practicing Self-Care Skills
- Transitioning Back To Work Or School
- Achieving & Maintaining Wellness
Bipolar are Bipolar Recovery Coaches who seek to help individuals living with mental illness and/or their caregivers, families, and families-of-choice reach recovery. A Bipolar Recovery Coach is a person living with bipolar in recovery. They use their lived experience to help peers and their supporters pursue recovery. We define recovery as living a full and meaningful life with bipolar even if there is no cure. A Bipolar Recovery Coach has been living with bipolar for at least ten years and has been in recovery for at least five years. They are currently in treatment. They are successfully managing their condition to minimize its impact on productivity and quality of life.
Contact Person / Email
hello@forlikeminds.com
Psych Ward Greeting Cards
Psych Ward Greeting Cards
Psych Ward Greeting Cards makes it easy for empathic and compassionate people to let patients in the psychiatric unit know that people, even strangers, care about them and support them. ForLikeMinds created and manages this program to deliver greeting cards from strangers to patients at participating hospitals. Sharing a card can have a wonderful impact on a patient at their lows - offering help, encouragement, and hope. They need our support at this critical and vulnerable time. More than 80% of former psychiatric unit patients surveyed said receiving a "get well soon" card would have helped their recovery.
We regularly visit psychiatric units, distributing donated cards with inspiring messages and treats, at leading hospitals in the New York City area - the Payne Whitney Clinic at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital, and New York-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, and Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital.
We personally meet and speak to patients, sharing our lived experience and hope that recovery from mental illness is possible. We are thrilled to have the support of so many wonderful card donors. It is an honor and a privilege to support these inspiring patients and work with the staff members at our partner hospitals and non-profits.
Address
Real MH Works, LLC P.O. Box 251 Shokan, NY 12481
Country
United States of America
Recovery Boosts
Recovery Boosts
RecoveryBoosters offers thoughtful gifts for people with depression and empowerment messages for those affected by mental illness. Our curated collection aims to encourage and self-empower people with a condition and enrich relationships with their supporters. A thoughtful gift or sentiment can have a significant impact on the recipient and the giver. Each item has a story and reflects our founder’s personal insights into what helped in her own recovery journey. Please share our signs on social media!
Organisation
Address: Real MH Works, LLC P.O. Box 251 Shokan, NY 12481
Country: United States of America
Email: hello@forlikeminds.com