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Alishia
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Number of ratings76 Number of reviews28 Listens toOver 18 LanguagesEnglish Listener sinceMay 8, 2015 Last activeover 6 months ago GenderFemale PathStep 87 People helped192 Chats867 Forum posts28 Forum upvotes55
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Welcome! Life is tough, and so are you. In my past, and present, I've struggled with self-harm, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and psychosis. I believe strongly that our experiences help create who we are; truama plays a huge part in many of our lives, can take years to heal from, and can result in some pretty frightening experiences. Together we can connect, name our fears, and build a partnership through this tough time. Offline, i'm a counselor and peer support worker. I've found treating people as the humans they are has profound effects on all us. I hope my experiences can support others through their experiences. I'm always free to chat when I'm online. If I'm offline and you can wait, send me a message and I'll get an email. I'll respond as quickly as possible, usually within a few hours. 

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I am Ali
Newbie Hub / by Alishia
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 July 1st, 2017
...See more Hi all, I go by Ali. I come from a trauma filled background. I eventually developed a range of experiences from hearing voices and seeing demons to dissociative black outs. Anxiety kept me isolated, the trauma kept me in my own world, the dissociation and hallucinations confused me. In high school I learned the ins and outs of Psychiatry, the good and the bad, and set myself on a path for medical school success. At age 21 I got a position as a counselor at a respite house, where I still am a year later, and have learned compassion and a growing understanding of the power of community. I work for 2nd Story Peer Respite house. We are voluntary, with a 2 week stay (we'll be lengthing that soon enough). All of us "counselors" are peer workers, meaning we've been through psychiatric distress ourselves. We are a regular house in a regular neighborhood, those who stay with us are our guests not clients or patients, we don't hand out or deal with medication (we trust the guests to handle that on their own, we give them a key to lock up their medication in their rooms). This community has both saved and changed my life. We operate with a foundation in Intentional Peer Support. I'm still in college, but with a different mindest. I'm mindful of what I've termed "clinical arrogance"--i.e, doctors with no mental health experience believing they understand what someone is going through. I've learned if someone has experienced something I haven't, a textbook can't tell me what they need, only they can tell me what they need. We believe at the respite house, and my own personal belief, is that no one is incapable of taking care of themself, no one is fragile. We all need support sometimes, empowerment and encouragement, but we don't need to be spoon fed, we don't need to fall into a pit of learned helplessness, which is easy to do in an enviornment where we're constantly told we're disabled, sick, ill, crazy. That's my story, and many others, so far.
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cool listner and problem solver
Listens attentively and asks good questions.
Great listener that really cares
loved it! awesome chat!
An amazing listener & honestly the best one I’ve been connected with this far.
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Amazing and thoughtful!
You're amazing. Thank you so much for listening to me!
She is very helpful and understanding. She is doing a great job. I would recommend her to have to talk to anytime.
No matter what she always answer back and it really shows she cares.
Great listener, quick replies and understand what you're going through. Genuinely good person and helped me feel good about myself
Thank you!
Great listener. Brings up good points
Always offers a kind and helpful word. Really tries to understand your issue and help find a way to cope or a silver lining in it all. Really sweet and awesome listener!
Was such a lovely sweet listener. I can not thank them enough for listening to me and talking to me, I wish I could find many more listeners such as this lovely person is. I highly recommend them to anyone who needs to talk. 10 out of 10.

Thank you so much Alishia for all you have done and for listening. You are truly wonderful.
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Deeply caring person
the best
She was absolutely amazing. She talked me through a lot of things and it really helping. Definitely talk too if you can.
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