Who runs Real Mental Health? Who owns HealthyPlace.com? Are they one and the same?
These are interesting questions to ask, because you can’t find such information on their websites. What makes it even more interesting is what recently happened to the Real Mental Health website that demonstrates a behind-the-scenes connection between these two sites — a connection not acknowledged anywhere on either site.
Real Mental Health is a small mental health community built upon a third-party social networking suite of tools. The website used to reside at realmentalhealth.com. But at the end of May, the site suddenly went away without notice to its members. That’s when the intrigue began.
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–people who are committed to the idea of reducing the stigma surrounding mental -health.
Not sure why you promote the term stigma, there are accurate references.
Not sure why anyone would want only to “reduce” a prejudice. Curious attitude.
Make me a list of the negatives surrounding health.
Harold A. Maio
Is it possible he sold the domain name for a lot of money and sold it with the inflated traffic? I think that a serial entrepreneur would be more interested in building a business possibility rather than be a philanthropic mental health valiant who pulls the rug out from under those who basically made the site…the members
It seems to me that this article has more opinion based ideations, versus factual data attempting to lure the reader into a negative mindset surrounding HealthyPlace. There is no proof that Real Mental Health and HealthyPlace are run by one and the same person, only speculation. This article seems like a ploy to gain more followers of this website. Why is it that Dr.Grohol is constantly attacking Healthyplace? Is he concerned that Healthyplace is a highly popular mental health website? It seems like Dr. Grohol spends alot of time and energy focusing on attacking healthy place versus focusing on mental health issues.
Let’s see… nearly 3,500 blog entries here over the course of 10 years, 3 of which have been on HealthyPlace. One about them losing their HONcode accreditation (a newsworthy story, given their size and amount of advertising they seem to do), one about spammers taking over their support community, and now this one. The other 3,497 blog entries have been on mental health issues and psychology. I leave it to the reader to decide if I spend a “lot of time” “constantly attacking” this website, when all I do is a little research and report on my findings.
As for it being “highly popular,” we now see at least one possible method it uses to attain that status.
Yes, Real Mental Health doesn’t have much in the way of information about themselves except their mailing address, which is an apartment building in Miami.
This might help you and your readers:
Charles “Hop” Fuhrmann
HealthPlace, Inc.
1617 E Commerce Street
San Antonio, TX 78205-3325
Phone:(210)225-4388
I spent several years on the Real Mental Health website. I suffer mental illness and my symptoms were very much exacerbated while interacting with the people who ran that site. The seemed to attract psychologically ill people who used the site as an outlet to act crazy.