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[–] CognitiveBehavioralDuctTape@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Fun fact! PLEASE is an actual skill in Dialectal Behavior Therapy and we'll probably be covering it within the next couple months over on !DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Please subscribe and get active if you're looking to improve your mental health lately! The main page of our wiki has a quickstart guide if you're looking for something you could even do today to help stabilize yourself a little.

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[–] CognitiveBehavioralDuctTape@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

!DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I'm trying to start a mental health support community that's skills based to hopefully help people who can't afford or otherwise access professional therapy.

Here's the wiki (the main page has a quickstart guide if you're looking for some things you can do today even just to maybe help stabilize yourself a little)

Here's a specific list of ways you can get involved with growing this community

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DIY Mental Health: Updates and how you can help (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50139532

ok been going for a few weeks and have at least a few commenters and some good updooting. If you'd like to get more involved and get your name on the Contributors Page here's some ideas:

Help me with the content

  • Help make better writeups for the skills. If you've done CBT / DBT before and there was a skill you were particularly good at or had success with in a group teachback exercise, please share! It's not a dealbreaker but I am trying to keep the reading level low to keep things more accessible. In school I was taught to write patient education material at about a fifth grade reading level because it's the US average. It also helps people whose first language is not English.

  • Help me make or find good creative commons content, especially elsewhere in fedi like peertube. I'm also absolutely excited to see any memes or shitposts anybody wants to share. Personally I do a lot of my own learning through shitposting and consider it a form of creative art!

Help me with the community

  • Share the FUCK outta everything. Crosspost anything you want. This is dbzer0, download a car.

  • This isn't big enough that I really need mods yet, but if I'm actually successful at this I probably will, so lmk if you're interested.

Help me with the tech stuff

  • I recently made a Mood-Log PWA to accompany this project that will output your week as a series of colored squares that you can share here (group discussion of mood logging is a common but optional part of mental health support groups). There's also a longer form it can spit out that you could text or email to your therapist or psychiatrist or just paste into a markdown note app. That said I kinda vibes-coded most of this with the help of an llm and my main security feature is storing all of your data completely locally. I would actually really love someone to review it and make sure I actually did a good enough job or maybe clean up the code a little.

  • The bot didn't post on sunday and idk why or whether or not it will this sunday. If you know why or have a better idea for Siggy, lmk.

Next week is Distress Tolerance so stay tuned!

uuuuuuh. I'll probably think of other stuff after I post this. But thanks for reading!

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Would maybe a meme about the weekly skill help do you think? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

Any other good ideas?

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Mental Health Skills Building Community in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
Mental Health Skills Building Community in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] CognitiveBehavioralDuctTape@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh idk if this is what you meant but when I try to change the url of the post to that it says it's invalid.

Mental Health Skills Building Community in c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
[–] CognitiveBehavioralDuctTape@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

if I just put that in the URL box will it work?

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Mental Health Skills Building Community (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

Instance agnostic link: !DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I posted that DIY mental health resources folder but tbh it's probably just better as a community. I picked dbzero honestly mostly because it has a wiki function but also it has a pretty strong neurodiverse community. This is a more specifically skill-based group than just a general support group (although that's not discouraged). I just think it's an area that most support communities don't offer and that I think people could use.

Wiki | Matrix

!DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Actually this is a better idea (I think) for some DIY mental health skill building (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

Instance agnostic link: !DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I posted that DIY mental health resources folder but tbh it's probably just better as a community. I picked dbzero honestly mostly because it has a wiki function but also it has a pretty strong neurodiverse community. This is a more specifically skill-based group than just a general support group (although that's not discouraged). I just think it's an area that most support communities don't offer and that I think people could use.

Wiki | Matrix

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welcome to diymentalhealth (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

i started this space because i wanted something a little more structured than most online support groups and rooted in real-life coping tools—but still chill and decentralized. this isn’t therapy, and it’s not medical advice. it’s just a peer space to share specific skills that have helped, and maybe learn a few new ones along the way.

for context: i am a mental health professional, but i’m not your therapist. i’m not here in any official or clinical capacity—this is a volunteer project, a mutual aid effort to make skills more accessible. i’ve received a lot of therapy personally, and while I don't provide a lot of talk therapy at work, I've definitely seen what lack of access does to people, so I just wanted to give something back to the community.

My Current Plan

  • weekly-ish posts about one specific skill at a time, mostly drawn from DBT, CBT, WRAP, and similar approaches

  • if you want, you can respond with something that helped you, or drop a quick snippet from your diary card or mood tracker (like “i felt X and realized it was connected to Y”)

  • this isn’t a course or a step-by-step system. there is a suggested order on the wiki, if you want a place to start—but the whole point is that you get to set your own pace and focus on what’s most relevant to you

  • this isn’t a crisis space (see the wiki for how to find support if you’re in danger), and it’s not a replacement for therapy. but if you’re looking for practical tools, shared experiences, and mutual support—welcome.

a few other notes...

  • suggestions on how to make this space better are very welcome. when i do teach these kinds of skills professionally, it’s usually 1:1—so doing it asynchronously and in a community format is new to me.

  • i’m okay with tech stuff but still struggling with stuff like getting a bot working. probably going to just use a scheduler service for now. if you’re into that kind of thing and want to help, let me know.

  • i’m also building a resource archive of links (so that nothing is hosted here) so we can keep track of useful worksheets, videos, etc. if there’s a piece of media that helped you understand a skill, feel free to share it. i’ll try to link to it on the relevant wiki page. and if you ever find a broken link, dm me and i’ll fix it.

Wiki | Matrix

thanks for being here.