I think it is a good idea to take this into the personal messages... recently there have been threads where people with problems have been ridiculed........ or it hasn't been taken seriously becasue people assume its a hoax..... this can't be very "healing" for the person concerned.....Yes we are a community, but we don't need to know absolutely everything about everybody else... some people like / need their privacy.
If it was taken into private messages... those concerned or willing to help could be reached .....
here's another suggestion.. why not take it into ICQ or one of the other "chat" type forums... so you can actually talk things through, or arrange times to meet and "channel energies" or whatever.......
slainte
alison