Mental Health Ambassador Role(s) on the FreeCompliments Community!
Yesterday, I made a rather disappointing discovery within our community. Although we’ve seen some fantastic growth and consistent posts, our comments have dropped off slightly. A slight drop-off can be expected sometimes, but here’s what I truly didn’t like:
One of our members created a post that was clearly a call for help due to mental health issues, possibly exacerbated by a difficult day. This post was created a few hours after I went to sleep for the night, and I was only able to see it 17 hours later. It had a few dozen votes on it, yet no replies. Not a single person had bothered to drop as much as a sentence to someone who was openly struggling. Nearly 48 hours later, I’m still the only human to comment on that post.
As a community, we can certainly do better than this.
I’m realistic. I don’t expect that every single person will be able to reply to all posts 24/7. Most people aren’t nuts like me to come here almost 7 days per week lol! However, there are certainly some people who come around on a given day, and it’s nearly certain that some proportion of those votes on the post were coming from real people who saw the post. Now, votes are important on Hive, but remember that we’re all about communication. This is the crux of what makes us human.
If you see a post that’s asking for human communication, and see that nobody has replied to it for a long time, please take a moment to write at least a brief sentence – to acknowledge the existence of the person. A simple acknowledgment can mean the world to someone who may otherwise think that they are shouting into the void.
Mental Health Ambassador Role(s)
In light of seeing what happened here, I’d like to push some more focus on mental health in our community. We certainly have enough members to be able to communicate with each other, especially in times of struggle. This is exactly where we have the opportunity to shine.
Thus, I’m opening up a role for all of our members, as well as to those who have not yet joined. A mental health ambassador’s job would be to look specifically for posts from people that are asking for some type of help, implying a need or request for help, or appear to be a call for help or communication. The mental health ambassador would then open a line of communication as soon as possible to ensure that the person is in a stable mental state.
Feel free to tag me on such posts, but the essential aspect would be for someone to talk to the person who needs help.
In order to avoid a 7 day per week situation, I’ll keep this position very flexible: a mental health ambassador can choose any number of days per week that they can keep open to do this job. If they want to do this only on Mondays, that’s great. If they want to do Saturdays and Sundays, that’s also great. If they want to do this 7 days per week… God bless, that would make life easier for me lol!
Should multiple people want this job, we can communicate within the FreeCompliments Discord to split up days according to your preferences.
Does this job pay?
Of course it will! This is not necessarily an easy job and does require some degree of vigilance and care. For every day that this job is done, I’ll pay 1 HSBI Unit, regardless of whether any posts are made that require attention. This means that if you decide to do this job 5 days per week (like a standard job), you’d get paid 10 HSBI Units every 2 weeks.
I’ll just ask that you send me reminders to do so because I am a touch forgetful, especially during my busiest workweeks! As long as I am reminded, I’ll definitely be sending you the HSBI.
Is there training involved?
You can certainly ask me questions about the proper approach to situations if you’d like. Since every situation is different, there is no single proper answer. However, a key point to remember is to not be dismissive about the person’s concerns (i.e. don’t say, “don’t worry, this too shall pass” or something similarly generic that sounds like a feeble attempt to be positive without addressing the actual issue at hand).
Here are some useful guidelines which can help you.
However, you typically do not have to go to great lengths at the very beginning. Simply reaching out with a greeting and acknowledging someone’s difficulties can be a highly productive start in the process of helping them. This first step is sometimes the most significant one, and as such is the primary job of the mental health ambassador.
What do you think of the idea of mental health ambassadors? Are there any other ways that we can encourage comments on posts from those who are struggling? Am I being too harsh in my assessment and expectations?
I would love to hear any and all opinions about these topics from everyone who is currently a member of FreeCompliments, since you’re all inaugural members! Anyone else who finds this page is also very welcome to voice their opinion. We’re all about free speech, and everyone’s experience has value.
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Ohhh I think it's very nice what you are doing, I hope that many can support you, but the truth is that sometimes I don't have time to do so much, I am very communicative in hive, but the truth is that sometimes so much overwhelms me. Blessings to all that you do.
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Absolutely understandable, and you just joined the community so I don't expect that you would have seen that post, haha!
Even just a random comment in passing can make all the difference in the world, just like this one. 😊
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This is very encouraging and I Look forward to it implementation for the greater good of those in need of help.
As do I, haha! We have the opportunity to truly change lives through small, collective actions. This is one of many ways to do so.
As one of the posts I visited this week said, "time does not forgive".
Let us be more vigilant in taking care of one another!
Indeed, that's rather beautifully phrased! I face time-sensitive situations rather often where moments can make a major impact on someone's well-being. It hits rather close to home.
Definitely count on me to be a mental ambassador because I would love to contribute even a tiny grain of sand to help those who need it and I hope that many more people are encouraged, we will form something big:)
Wonderful! I also have one other person who's interested in doing this as well, and possibly more in the future. Please hop onto our Discord (if you'd like) and we can collectively arrange how to split the days.
Having ambassadors is a great way to expand positive influence for the project for sure. I actully am one for a few projects here on hive but the biggest notable one would be Leo. It's a way to build team work, idea sharing and action on a larger scale. Go get it!
Thanks so much! It's great to know that this idea was one that's similar in implementation to a project that's already in much larger scope. 😊
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Check out our last posts:
• Easy, we can all do our bit here and that's what this community is for, to provide moral support to anyone in any situation.
• Bro, I could not tell you exactly what to do about it because let's be honest, some people make posts and (I speak for myself) I find them dramatic and sometimes out of context which simply makes me not read the whole thing and lose interest, however knowing this I think we can take a little more awareness in this regard and devote the necessary minutes to each publication.
Have you ever seen someone soft succeed?
Have you seen someone with low expectations reach the chasm?
ME EITHER! So let's get to work.
I think that your experience can certainly come in handy for others who are going through a similar situation! You're able to provide a perspective that others, such as myself, cannot. Your experience has absolute value. 😊
That's actually an outstanding point. Some of the posts that appear here are more on the fun / gamey side of things, which I think is ok. However, that can run the risk of obscuring posts which might actually require attention. I wonder if there's a way that we can somehow filter or seek out such posts a little bit better.
And yes, sometimes people are dramatic, haha. Nevertheless, it's hard for us to personally know what someone's going through.. we each have different thresholds of sensitivity. I think that teaching methods of becoming mentally resilient is something we can try to utilize more often, because babying around is often counterproductive.
You almost made me want to edit out that portion of my post! Excellent call to action, very nice, haha. 😂
Thanks for this very helpful feedback. Let me send you some HSBI.
Implementing a system where people would use the best possible titles and images may be difficult (although we could come up with a system to advise this for best outcomes). Certainly willing to hear further thoughts about this!
By the way, the themed days do help with this to a certain degree, but its primary limitation (ironically) is the fact that I allow the freedom of all topics on all days o the week, haha.
And yes, it's a great point that we're just not up for replying to certain things every day. Someone below suggested a tagging system. I think I might be able to work with that in some capacity. Will think about this.
People go through a lot each day and having a mental health ambassador would go a long way.
Although I'm in the medical field, I do not know so much about a person's mental health yet but it would be interesting to learn.
This is a really nice idea and I hope it is achieved soon enough ✨
I'm also directly in the medical field, and the mental component is something that is, frankly, too-often overlooked! The more I do this, the more I try to pay attention to this component in my own practice.
We already have some interested parties, so we're off to a strong start. 😁
I think mental health should be looked into with scrutiny but that's just a thought till I can do something about it.
Aww, I guess I'd be learning from them then.😌
Yes, it's certainly a tricky business! I think that if we stay within our realm of knowledge and don't push our actions beyond what we know works, we can still handle in a safe way. It's important to be careful.
Hardly here eight days a week. The Pepe the frog in me(me) agrees. Moar than happy to lend a helping meme, or bits of words. Feel this fits along with the Pepe philosophy and believe Pepe has helped many with memes and moar. On board to be an ambassador for this having been through a little that has led me to growing up and down into this little cartoon frog meme character that appears sometimes bigger than life than some may realize. Anyone may let me know if I may possibly help most anytime. Nat Sam
Your presence on Hive is exceptionally impressive, haha! Would love to have you contribute your own brand of support here. There's a level of humor involved in this meme that can do wonders which an otherwise ordinary comment may miss. I believe you already joined in our Discord, right? Give me a shout-out to let me know for sure... there's a channel I created specifically for this role.
Yes, but I may not be recognized, maybe a wittle intro shortly.
Pepe meme mandatory. 😜
(If you want!)
Yes, mandatory is voluntary.
count on me to be a mental ambassador
Appreciate this offer! Please do join as a member of the community and Discord so that we can all coordinate this.
Absolutely getting a council and sharing the workload is really important for something like this. I think you are really on to something.
I definitely think that this would be an excellent investment as well as a great idea.
Really hope that whoever was having problems is able to get some positive support! Definitely it can be a huge thing to have that support.
There's already a good amount of interest in this position. As we gain more people, I think this can become a genuine workforce which plays a huge impact on people's lives!
Absolutely I would definitely be willing to help out. I'm sure that the more we all can come together and support each other the better chance that we have at establishing long-term help.
Geez! I did not see that post :( :(
Thanks for the Ambassador initiative and for taking the Time that It requieres. ❤️ If anybody that read this feels bad, anxious or troubled and want to speak with somebody please send me a DM or reply this comment and I'll gladly read you Hivers. 🍀🍀
Appreciate this offer you make. 🙏
@raymondspeaks maybe you should chat to FC
Funny you mentioned this: we have actually been chatting about mental health initiatives!
The other funny thing is that a common request for help usually comes in a monetary form. I'm not asking Ray for a single penny, so we're trying to figure out how to actually use Hive itself (and/or Discord) to broaden our efforts. This involves actual brain juice. 😂
Oh, you and your perfectly appropriate .gifs!
One day I'm going to send you a bunch of HSBI for a .gif for this community. 😁
nice one
It’s true but that it’s very frustrating not to get any comments in a single, it should be more frustrating any help. And much more if you are asking for an emotional (mental) help. In normal situations it’s difficult to maintain motivation to be active here. It should be more difficult if you don’t get any comments in your post asking for any help. I want to thanks to you as i can say i see you and read you in more of my post.
Independently of the commitment you are asking for i am here to support any help, then you can tag me. I will think if I could do some commitment, English is not my mother language.
Exactly, the fragile moments are the exact opportunity for people to step up to the plate - and be humans at the core. I hope to encourage that here. Hive is amazing for the financial aspect, sure, and it underlies most of our actions here; however, I think it can go far beyond this and touch humanity.
I appreciate this; you'll be tagged for such situations! Please do join as a member here - it'll make the tagging far easier. 😊
People are truly going through a lot, I admire people who have the boldness to share their struggles, I have read some posts where I literally cried my eyes out for the author, people don't need a lot, just a little "I get you" or "hang in there" could go a long way. I would love to join this movement.
Exactly, just initiating an interaction can be the most meaningful moment in someone's difficult journey. The remainder is just an extension of reaching out.
Exactly my point!
Oh, did you want to actually be a mental health ambassador or just get tagged in posts? Both serve a valuable function. 😊
I want to be a mental health ambassador if it's still open.
Absolutely! Please join in the Discord so we can work out the specific day(s) you'd like to do this (if you don't want to join the Discord, that's ok, too, I'll make note of your day preferences there). Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are booked already!
Okay I will do just that shortly.
First of all, I am very sorry that this has happened precisely in this community. Right now I will look for that publication to contribute my part even if it is a little late.
The idea of the mental health ambassador role can be a good idea and I think I can be useful in that. I go to the Discord to offer myself. In fact, I already do something similar when I see that someone needs a word of support, only so far I am not actively looking.
Let's see what we can do! 🤗
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I appreciate the initiative. I think it's very important to constantly support and encourage those who continue the daily struggle.
Nice idea! Mental health has always been my least favorite field in medicine though. Maybe because my first wife ended up being bipolar... I'll pass on that job thanks. Are you going to subspecialize?
Lol, I don't blame you. It's certainly quite different from most other fields within medicine.
It's primary care for me!
It’s a shame not many people saw that post.
I haven’t either… but found the post luckily.
I think it is a great idea to have an ambassador keep an eye on posts in the community as mental health is something that needs to be looked at more. I am happy to help one day a week on Tuesday’s.
I am busy… but will make time for this important task.
We need to be more like a family and help where we can if people need it the most.
You’re a busy bee, yet always happy to help, you sweet soul 😘💙
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Aawww thanks sweetie 🤗😊 I do my best to help ❤️
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Appreciate this greatly! Thanks for joining in. More details to be discussed in our Discord - and of course, make time when you can, if you can. It's a great gift of you to give. 🙏
You are welcome… I hopped into discord.
Happy to help. I see daily posts all over hive and other communities like that and reply.
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Wonderful! Did you want to be a mental health ambassador or just get tagged on relevant posts?
I feel bad for not seeing the post as well because of I did, would have acted on it like I usually do when I see related posts on threads.
The idea of a health ambassador is good as the person will easily pick out such posts and probably tag everyone to it
You are doing great job already on the way you pilot the community even with your tight schedule. Well done.
I suggest any member who see such posts should tag the community and probably members too.
The tagging is actually a fantastic idea, and I'm going to ask the community about how we can use tags for such situations. This is where the power of a growing community can be used for the greater good. Absolutely brilliant, I'll send you 5 HSBI for this.
Wow, thank you so much. I'm glad you liked the used.
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I saw the post but somehow for me was difficult to understand what it is about.
A nice job offer once again and still I am not reliable enough at the moment to be an ambassador
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I absolutely appreciate the honesty! I won't claim that I understood the entirety of the content upon first read, but just enough of the bigger picture to see where it was going.
It's still great to have you here when you can be around. 😊
This idea is great.
Sometimes all we need is each other to survive, people are going through a lot and I must admit that some don't even care if you are Okey.
On days when am down,I feel like my whole world is crashing and nobody is coming for me but I have find some good ways to help make myself feel better.
I would like to help others who feel depressed to cope with theirs as well.
Thanks so much for this opportunity.🥰🥰🥰
It's very self-sufficient of you to find ways to work through difficult times by yourself, but it's always helpful to have a shoulder to lean on... otherwise, the difficulty can feel isolating, which is painful. We'll do our best to prevent that situation here!
Would you like to join as an ambassador or just casually? If officially, there's a special Discord channel for our new ambassadors. 😊
That’s a great call for action here and to be honest I am very happy to see that so many people reached out for this position.
While I would love to help, I often struggle myself and my presence on Hive can be temperamental at best.
The other thing to bear in mind is that those who actively interact with other people on hive are more likely to receive comments on their posts. While mental health is extremely overlooked and require more attention, the desire to get better and help yourself must be there in order to get better. I say that from my own experience.
All the best with this noble initiative. I’ll do what I can to keep my eyes out for posts like this 💙
Appreciate the honesty! And naturally, if you're ever struggling, feel free to come to us for help. We're going to get it done right this time around. 😊
That’s awesome to hear, thank you 💙
We can do better as a community
It looks like we're definitely on our way there! There has been a great deal of interest in this initiative. More ideas coming up...
Good to know people have great concern for the welfare of others. There is still hope in the world
So ecency on android can do push notifications when someone you follow makes a post. Anyone know if there's a way to do this but when new community posts are made insteae? Would help me to help here as I'm always busy working and don't often get to scroll feeds.
I really hope that person is feeling better now!
A very interesting idea! I actually haven't seen a way to view posts only from a community unless I go directly into the community itself. Admittedly, I use only browser apps, rather than a specific Ecency app.
Let's see if someone from @ecency might know the answer to this question - otherwise, this might be a potential future feature!
Thanks for mention, @goingcrossroads do you want to be notified as a community moderator/admin when new content is published in your community or you want to be notified if you subscribed to any community?
You guys are fast to reply! Very well done. 😁
I think this is excellent idea!