The Closure of the Schizophrenia.com Discussion Forums

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As mentioned already in this forum…

Hi Everyone,

I started this website and forum in the late 1990s after my brother developed schizophrenia. Since that time we’ve had probably tens of millions of visitors here. But in the past 5+ years, due to google changes in their search algorithm and also due to lake of time and funds necessary to invest and maintain the site, the traffic has steadily fallen to the point where now there are very few visitors (in the hundreds), and sadly I can no longer financially support the web site.

The good news is that there are now many new forums on the topic of schizophrenia and related disorders that are now available on the internet, on Reddit and other platforms. And you can also create your own forums on some of these platforms for free.

So, it is with a heavy heart that I have come to post that the forums will be closing down here at the end of December this month. The forums will close down and I’ll be taking all the messages entirely off-line.

Thank you all for coming here over the years.

Support, discussion and connection is something we all need and benefit from. So I encourage you to continue to maintain the friendships and connections you’ve made here, but just do it in new forums.

I also encourage you to look on the Internet to find other forums that may be good meeting places for people here. Post links to those forums and try to get your friend here to move over there and create accounts over the coming 3 weeks.

I’d also suggest people work on transitioning over to these new forums over the coming two weeks, just so that you are more established on these new forums before this forum goes down.

I’ve met many great people here on the forums over the years, and I hope you have too.

SzAdmin

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Thank you so much for hosting the forum. It was a huge help to me when my son was actively psychotic 3-5 years ago. It really helped me get through it. He’s been on meds since then, with no episodes, so I’ve been mostly posting here and there to support others who are going through a crisis.

Again, thanks! I’ll check to see what Reddit has.

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Thank you for hosting this forum I searched for many years for something like this .

I’ve not found anything like this yet specific to schizophrenia disorders if I do I will post here .

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Thank you for creating a community of safety and support. I wish you well.

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Thank you so much for hosting this forum, i was completely at a loss before i stumbled upon your website and am tremendously grateful for all the advice and stories from each person. I have learned a lot and still continue to learn and have taken the advice to heart. Thank you once again for hosting and best of luck in your future endeavors and to all who have posted on this site.

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