Healthful ChatReviews 79

This site used to be so good. Where are all the good mods they had? Never a mod on anymore. I quit going there no real conversations to be had and lots of trolls. Looking for a new site, any suggestions?

Great site in general. Got to know quite a few nice people, most mods are super nice as well. Some are just weirdos (actual mod name). Long story short, mods dont build the community.

The healthfulchat lounge, is the worst chat site I have ever visited. It's a wonder they are still in operation.
The mods are all power hungry and show favortism certain chatters.

I'm Brumble in this old screenshot, I'm transgender.

How is this site still up? Cyber bullying is illegal in the united states, they need turned in.

The mods and regular users are just a bunch of tools. They all serve one unhealthy purpose, depending upon another in different ways. It's a rats' nest of smaller echo chambers, where not even helpful discourse can illuminate through. You would be remissed to visit this website.

I don't understand the negative reviews here - the site isn't perfect, but most of the moderators are nice. They try their best to help out when they can, but they are all volunteers and they seemingly don't have shifts of any kind, so it can be the wild west at night.

The mods in the depression side can be a bit fast and loose with the rules, so i stopped going there

Now only i go to the Healthful chat side and the mods there are nice (but sometimes you need to send them a message if someone is breaking the rules). The rooms can get a bit off topic, but the mods try to keep the triggering content out of the rooms.

This isn't a support site, but it is a good site to chat with other people. A lot of people there have anxiety, but i have seen people with bipolar and addiction

Don't believe the good reviews here, most likely fakes to boost the rating.

The first month I used the site, I literally just logged in when I got kicked by Astrid, a mod, rudely accusing me of terrible behavior. I logged in again and asked her in main chat of depression What's up with her kicking me out and accusing me of something when I just logged in. I got no reply. I was upset so I left.

My experiences in this site are horrible. Men wanting sex talks, scammers, even pedos. I've noticed that people in the main chat are primarily composed of people who have no jobs, in disability or relying on gov't funds, entitled people who hates rich/wealthy people and thinks gov't should be able to give them better support/more financial benefits, men who treats the site as a dating site, and those who constantly just complain about their life without making real effort of changing their situation, and adults acting like kids. I've also encountered porn links on site, and mods can't do anything about it.

Mods are all volunteers and also have mental health issues as they are chosen from regular chatters on the site. People who got kicked out can just log back in within seconds. Even banned people can somehow still log back in. Ignore feature does not really work because every time you log out or the ignored person log out and back in, the ignore is gone so you have to do it all over again.

This is the site to go to if your purpose is just to complain about everything in public. If you are serious about getting help, this is the worst site to go to as you will just get constantly triggered. If you stay in this site for a long time, your mental health issues will not get better, and would just get worst.

7 cups has better support as you can find normal (not mentally ill) people who gives great advices.

I've been coming to these rooms for awhile now. For the most part the chatters are helpful and friendly. They have good advice/support. However, there are chatters that join the rooms as some sort of online playground and just attack chatters or are completely random. I think its still worth using this website though from all the help i've received since i first joined.

There are mutiple things wrong with this site. I have worked for a crisis chat line last year and have battled with mental health for many more.
The chatrooms i went into (requested from calm because i cannot do phone calls because im hard of hearing) were seemingly completely unmonitored, bots kept popping up asking you to donate to the shambles of the website
No research has been done around the postive and negatives around having mutiple people woth the same underlying issue they clicked on for help may i add in the same chat room. Everyone was triggering each other there were no professionals or systems in place to stop people or remove even after someone has said to not talk about a subject mutiple times. There is no monetising around potentially harmful subjects which is why 1 to 1 chat services with a trained professional is much more effective than alot of unwell people all in one room with no supervision (much like in a pshych ward with no staff) its not going to go well for anyone.
Made me so much worse when i just wanted to talk to someone about my situation and feeling because i have no one to talk to and i hate to think about how many more people are being made so much worse when clicking on this site
Absaloutely disrespectful and my complaint message wont even allow me to contact them.

It's a joke made for people just wanting a place to fit in and ask advice, only to be greeted by 2 year old adults.

My dad passed away a while back, I went to this website, the mods just made me feel worse.

While most of the mods are okay, but they do nothing, except Strawberry-Maiden and Forever.
All of the mods do not take your complaints and if they do not like what you are talking about, even if it is a netural topic, they say: MOVE ON! MOVE ON!
There are a lots of weirdos, especially in the bpd chatroom who basically talk about sexuality (despite there is a room about sexuality - the LGBTQ) and asking if you are a ''gay'' person or not.
Generally in most of the rooms you are only allowed to do small talk, nothing about mental health issues, like you' ve lost your job, you were raped, hurt, beaten, feeling suicidal or any other form of excessive complaining.
The users in bpd chatroom are especially vindictive and make fun of you and invalidate your negative experiences, woes, sorrows in life.
If they do not like the intensity of your complaining and feelings they will call you a troll and you will be kicked for 48 hours or more.
Basically, the site is pointless - you are not allowed to talk about suicide, mental health issues, depression, anxiety, self-harm, traumas in the rooms, only in private messages - but you got to ask in main if anyone is wanting to have PM with you.

Worthless, worthless site, power-hungry admins and mods, lots of invalidating and offensive folks.

I've been using this site off and on since 2013, and while I've met some less than great folks, the mods will always handle them if you ping them. And they have an /ignore feature that I've had to use more than once. But the rooms themselves are nice, especially for a free support website. I hang out in the lounge a lot, but go to ptsd, lgbtq, and bpd for the support I need on bad days. Philo is a mess though, stay out of there if you can. It's all just racists and bigots in there.

Fairly new still. I've struggled with bipolar for years and truama. Grief and loss. They seem friendly. Idk was looking for a place to belong when not ok and feeling bad. Chatters and mods alike have tried to help me. And slowly seeing a difference in how I feel. Just not being alone in my head is huge. Thank you Astrid for your help. Won't forget it.

I stumbled upon this site recently, I have found it to be very friendly and people are caring. I have made friends here, who understand that's the most important thing for me. People who understand I have good days and bad days, and that don't judge me for it.

I think the moderators do a good job, they are helpful and friendly and when I had a problem with a user they dealt with it efficiently and made me feel listened to.

I would recommend this site to anyone needing someone to listen and understand.

Sharing my opinion with some other people here. The "mods" are friendly for sure. But there are 40 channels - most of the time 150 users... well we can do the math.

+ adverts and a cry for donation. Tbh - i actually wondered if some of the "guest/trolls" were mods. But yea. Cant know.

Sadly helthfulchat and depression chat is a very dangerous place for those struggling with mental illness while some chatters can ve very supportive and nice this is overshadowed by the moderation team who are not very nice at all if you are autistic and show that you are struggling you will get banned by some moderators etc. Astrid, BluGobi, LadyBernie, if you question a disission you will be banned, also don't bother contacting them as they are very unprofessional they constantly ignore reports about online harassment, one admin said that i was allowed back but then when i came back i was banned despite being told a lie that i was allowed back. I have been bullied by the moderation leading to me harming and punching myself, please if you are a venerable user especially someone with autism and depression stay away form here because there is a good chance that the moderation team will emotionally miniplate and bully you especially if you struggle with sucidal thoughts and self harm, Ignore the biased reviews these have most likely been posted by the staff team to try and overshadow the disturbing abuse that goes on behind closed doors. Its really sad where society is going if it is now nornal to bully depressed people especially when people ae allowed to mislead the public by claiming to be a depression support group but instead bullying genuine people looking for support while allowing trolls say the most disgusting comments and employing trolls to moderate this chatroom, law enforcment needs to be contacted.

Good site, no issues. Read the rules. I met some amazing people struggling with life in the same way I am. They help me every day to keep fighting the good fight. Thank you, healthfulchat.org, you've been a life saver.

Looks like their are a bunch of reviews that aren't honest, like they are just trying to offset the bad reviews. Truth is there is a mod who sends every one her pic in workout gear in an obvious cry for people to like her. Also she doesn't seem to enforce rules unless other mods are on. Quickly disappears when the rooms start getting bad and pinging her seems to make her log off as well. There are a lot of trolls and when the good mods are on they do what they can to.stop it. Too bad they aren't on more often. You might get support here, you might get to see any number of hateful comments. Just don't expect certain mods to do anything.

To, be prefectly honest this chatroom oveffers any kind of support at all. This chatroom is nothing short aof a joke. The chatters constantly bully and harass other chatters for being gay, etc. I cannot believe in this day and age there are still a lot of ignorant people in this world.

Hello it will not let me get on and it taking to long for it to load and it usally let me get on but today its acting up