Hmm, the thing is, i don't think there are so many people here who actually can help someone really get well. It takes alot of time, to begin with, and it requires alot of knowledge about how the mind works, which also takes alot of time to know. Since this primarily is a relief forum after all it probably would be quite hard to keep all the people who want to help by simply saying nice things away from threads where the author ask for actual, practical as well as mental means for solving his/her problems.
I also like the idea, and was actually something i was considering for Isle Red, but 99% of the members here didn't come here to help others and probably are far from available to go through with all of steps of a therapeutic analysis and treatment of someone else. I wouldn't let anyone on a forum of mine actually tell people what to do without having 100 % trust in that that person knows what he's/she's talking about. A person offering the help should be completely free from depression him-/herself to begin with, and not be as fanatic about certain things as many of the people who've come here to help have been. There have been severe women-hating, man-hating, completely religious solutions as well as "solutions" that in time could create devastating obsessions for objective things without actual meaning. None of these "solutions" does anything to take away the actual problem, but rather pulls up a curtain to hide it all with, which is perfectly logical but as we've also seen in those members who've tried to help others by these means.
I'm one of the few here who've helped people for many years now, both on- and offline, and with quite good results. What's so special about me? I've lived for it. You could call me a terapeut without much of the studies required to be a "real" one, who instead have spent the most-part of his life searching for and putting the answers to the test. It's not exactly a rewarding trait; caring more about others than Yourself, and sometimes i wish i was more selfish than i am, but i've accepted who i am and now have lived with it for a long time. Helping others is what literary kept me from doing suicide myself, and the most important feature that i believe i have compared to most of the other advisers we've seen here for example, is that the only thing i'm generally "fanatic" about, what my deal is, is love, the one and only thing that truly is going to help anyone here. There can be no short-cuts or heartless and blindfolded experiments, like so many others already have tried here. You need to KNOW what You're saying to the subject. The most important feature of a terapeut, in my eyes, is to have a genuine will to help as well as being free from any of these "curtains" which often are used to create lies instead of solutions. Simply having a strong will to help someone is sadly far from enough and to help someone via text alone is even more challenging.
I know what i'm doing and what i'm saying, and if i'm allowed to have any word in this great idea, i say; let's do one at a time, in a separate forum as You say Blue Sky, where a group of a few, genuinely interested, mentally well and knowledgeable people are the only one's to do the talking. This is quite a step You're talking about Blue Sky, and with a step like this comes a greatly increased responsibility for the subjects' wellness and in some cases lives. We can't let everyone do this.
I doubt anyone would know. But I would post what I think has coursed my loneliness in that forum if it was made.
