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Don't You Just Love Transitions?

Published in Untagged  by Amanda_HP | 02 Feb, 2009Print PDF

I consider today, officially, my first day on the job.  I've been working at HealthyPlace for the last month, helping get everything ready for the big transition.  My job, by the way, is to be the public face of the HealthyPlace Support Network -- to make things interesting, keep it organized and offer help and support to any of our members who need it.

As many of you here probably know, transitions can sometimes be difficult.  We ran into a little hurdle over the weekend.  Imagine, everyone here has been working like crazy on this project for over a year and then we launch only to find out that the server we have is inadequate to handle the new site plus all the people coming to it.  

Yesterday, the site literally came to a crawl.  That means many people who may have tried to register couldn't.  Others found it difficult to even get around the site. 

This morning, Tuesday, at 9 a.m. Central Time, our site will be down for about one hour as the techies beef up our current server.  I've been told this is just a temporary fix until we have a new, more powerful server in place by Monday or Tuesday of next week, when we'll have another transition.  Hopefully, this will come off a lot better.

I want to take a moment here to welcome everyone who's joined us so far.  I know that's just a few, but I have faith that over the next month, we'll have many new members joining us and hopefully the HealthyPlace Support Network will blossom into a beautiful thing.

If you happen to see me online (all registered members of the Support Network who are online, have their icon on the right side of the screen, feel free to click my chat button.  I look forward to meeting you and please let me know if there's anything you need help with on the site.

- Amanda

 



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March 01, 2009

LadyJtalks said:

Things are smooth going to nite and best of luck with the fresh start. I was a member here at HP I think over five years now but the site slowed down a long time ago and it seemed there was no one at the helm. We look forward to some new life now. lj
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March 02, 2009

Cynthia564 said:

Thank you.
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March 28, 2009

IRISHLADY said:

I have just joined the site,I look forward to meeting new friends and finding help and advise for my depression,alcohol binges,and now i think im going through menopause so many symptoms.
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April 03, 2009

YsabellaMika said:

Thank you. you seem to be working hard to keep this site as user friendly as possible. I've had no trouble really getting around the site and I only registered yesterday so I realize it may be far too soon for me to expect any response to my blogs yet. I'm looking forward to interaction with actual peers and peer group support. I'll feel even better once I actually make contact with a person tho.
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April 17, 2009

twisted1 said:

I need to know...I have been thinking about this alot, if you are finally able to manage the depression, wouldnt this take away from yourself like if you never felt very special and then got blindsided by this sadness that permeates everything, and some weird part of me thinks ah ha I am special. i have this disease I am sick...can you not want to get better but always have it? or is this part of the sickness? HELP
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May 07, 2009

condolphin said:

A response to Twisted1: I want to answer form perspective of a person who has serious problem with addiction. My adict would love for me to stay in the addiction and it will bring me certain types of attention. The problem is that my life will continue to become more and more unmanageable with worse and worse consequences and the healthy part of me does not want this. It may be a similar thing for someone who has a depressive disorder...at least in some ways? Certainly, I am a big believer that as you focus on your mentla health recovery program for depression there will be some awesome gold that will be uncovered. I think it is tied up in cognitive distortions around "I am a victim" when I stay stuck in "I am special" and this becomes part of a justification for not putting effort into my recovery program.
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July 28, 2009

leahmarie said:

Thank you for keeping this site alive and accommodating to people who just want to feel healthy :D
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July 29, 2009

LadyJtalks said:

We are very special people, each of us more so because we are seeking answers and still looking for help and support. Though my condition of Dissociate Identity Disorder (I'll still always call myself a multiple) does get still complicated by the Major Depression which for me is a physical ailment more then the mental most times.

It has been my experience that though the professionals strive to make you better I believe that the goal for any of us is to live the best we can with what we have. Learning to be positive is real hard when you are hurting and the brain can not tell whether it is physical or emotional so we just hurt. Learning ways to relax the body was how I learned the difference.

If you are still looking and searching you are doing good. even I forget that sometimes when I'm in the depth of it and these post remind me of that. Good to see others posting, I just have to figure out why I didn't get the first ones back when they were posted. LadyJ
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July 30, 2009

twisted1 said:

thanks to everyone I think it is understood here that it is hard to get out of the mind set first of depression in any disease and then to try and figure out what works for you I am also wondering does anyone ever think that life has really passed them by? it is magnified watching my parents age, both 75, i am blessed to have them but it is hard. then i think about my own life and how i never will and never have made a difference, and then i feel like an absolute burden on the world because i cant get out of bed.
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