BlahTherapy

I occasionally volunteer as a listener and I have yet to have a negative experience with other users. I have been disconnected a few times here and there, but always redirected with no trouble. I do have a background in mental health and a bit of experience in the field (I am not a licenced therapist, to be clear.), and I found this site to be a very intriguing, genuinely positive idea. It is unfortunate that others have had negative or tainted experiences with "Bad listeners" or that anyone out there would use this outlet as a source of entertainment. I will give it a good review, drawn solely fron my own experiences. I like to think I may have helped a few individuals who were dealing with some heavy stuff and though I do not have the proper degree qualifying me to provide actual therapy, I am happy to have potentially been of import to someone in crisis. Hopefully others follow suit. This site has great potential if not abused.

BlahTherapy is no good. They are completely unhelpful. The people on the listening end, don't listen the majority of the time. They are often very rude. Insensitive. Sometimes hateful. They really have no ability to give any responses to anything that is shared with them. They are not trained in anyway. Few people on here as listeners have good hearts but you can not find them usually. Do not wate your time. You will be drastically disappointed.

I think it's a fine website. The first person I talked to was super nice and reminded me of a dad. But the second person kept telling me to be sexual with them after I told them I was a minor. The third person told me to stop using the site and talked with me for awhile.
This site isn't super safe I think, some are ok, but others are kind of creepy. I don't like being hit on or asked if I'm a bottom or top. I reported them but I don't think it'll do anything.
Please don't use this site if you are a minor.

Do not use this site. It is filled with people that are on there mostly for entertainment purposes and they have facebook for that. While I was on there, I was cussed at by one of what they call "Listeners" and also had vulgar comments thrown at me as well. Please people run don't walk away from this site. I think this site probably has a bunch of young people that are posing as adults saying that they are good listeners, when people actually do get on the site with valid issues and problems. If they had a zero as a rating that is what this site would get.

I do not know how they do the process of recruting listenners, but clearly anyone with bad intentions can do it. Besides the bad network ( Have been disconnected 3 times and had to restart from scratch each time), one of them actually told me "SoRrY I. My INtEr... nEeet isss Ba..." then straight out left the chat because my story was too problematic, as rude as it can get. But the absolute worst is the one that started making sexual advances while I was explaining why I suspected my mom had a mental illness. I was in such a bad place I didn't say anything at first, but he legit ended up asking me about mast******. I'd say he was subtle, but thinking about I was naive and didn't pay attention to the red flags he was showing since the beginning. My biggest mistake was to think you could actually just find strangers online and share your secrets with them.

I tried this site once over a year ago (sometimes in 2015) as a venter and I kept getting disconnected from my listener. I think I tried maybe 6 times to actually talk. I could manage to say one or two things before being cut off and that happened again and again.

I tried this site again recently (2016) and it's the same problem. I got cut off and then happened to match with the same person. It told me that I was disconnected and the person said that it told them that I disconnected which I didn't.

On the plus side, no one was abusive or trolling, but then again I wasn't really matched with anyone long enough to know for sure. It's a shame. I just needed a quick outlet when no one else is around but the site is garbage for it's sole intention.

"Meh." I would say the majority of my time I have to spend finding someone who seems decent, who won't be a crass sob and who won't disconnect the chat leaving me wasting more time trying to find soneone else to cry on the proverbial electronic shoulder of. Bunch of pin$#*!s and then when I was the one to disconnect someone who seemed questionable and subsequently went back on only to get connected with that same idiot again, I was a "$#*!." Really. Could not hit the report button fast enough to do just that. Will wate my time somewhere else. $#*! it and in the meantime $#*! I am if I have to disconnect someone myself to avoid trolled or harrassed.

I went on this site after getting into a nasty fight with my mom and I really felt like $#*! for my behavior to the point where I couldn't focus on anything my mother can be a bit controlling and I try to be patient with her but sometimes she pushes me to my breaking. The person on the other end didn't see this through my point of view and told me that I was a disgrace and that I am "faking regret" and that I should beg for her forgiveness. Whoever that person was $#*! you thanks for making me feel worse you didn't even give me time to explain how toxic my mom is and how she always drinking and yelling and starting unnecessary fights I am not saint but I needed advice and you kicked me in the face.

When you go to a website to get help for your personal issues, you expect to be treated with kindness and sensitivity. I've gone on the website now multiple times for varying reasons in the hopes I'd just gone on a bad day for the site and that the people on there didn't actually act in that matter. My most recent experience on the matter was a few minutes ago. I've been feeling crushed by the stress of writing over 11,000 words every week for my book and I needed to be able to release that stress to calm down and keep up with my writing. I'm thirteen, so between hormones and puberty and school, it's all so much work and I feel like I can't escape that until I either graduate or stop doing the only thing I truly enjoy. When I went on the website, the first person interrogated me about where I lived and how old I was, obviously, I lied about my location, but when I told them I was thirteen, they immediately disconnected leaving me feeling worse than when I first went on the website. The second person listened to my problems a little but would tell me to just brush the stress off like that's something I can just do, after that, we got disconnected twice without either of us clicking the disconnect button. The third and final person started out fine, they asked how I was and what was wrong, but as soon as they read what I had to say, they disconnected, I was actually crying because of that. I often feel like I'm alone, I have absolutely no one to confide in, so I wanted to talk to people who were willing to listen to my problems and offer me support, but they didn't care either and made me feel even worse about myself than I did before. If you have problems and need to talk to someone, you can email me at *******@gmail.com. Unlike the people at BlahTherapy, I will listen to you and offer the best support I can, because everybody needs a helping hand.

Just sucks man horrible horrible site I hate this site because it lets people be rude to you in ways that are had to get away with in real life.

I've been a listener on Blah for 4 years now and have seen just about everything there is from legitimate venters to religious nuts to threats of homicide. Sometimes people go there because they have nothing to do. For me, these trolls and sex creeps aren't a problem because I, like every other listener, has the power to disconnect if I feel uncomfortable. What really bothers me is that this site has had a bot in the venter queue for over a year now. This bot starts out with "hi" and you can tell it's a bot because there isn't a typing indicator at the top of the chat window. They then link a URL claiming to be some 22 year old wanting to talk about anything. I have reported this bot probably over a hundred times and they are still there, which leads me to suspect that the site may either be behind it, or has an agreement with the website to allow it. Also, the report feature is garbage, but I understand why because it could be abused easily. My advice is this: If you are looking for serious help, go see a licensed professional in person rather than an anonymous random person online. As has been said many times in other reviews: there are people on this site who will manipulate you and try to harm you mentally. It's unfortunate, but the way of the internet.