alt.psychology.help
Peer support and advice on psychological matters.
A support-oriented group where people described real problems and received peer advice — with regulars steering the acute cases toward professional help, a norm the group enforced culturally rather than by moderation.
An early instance of the peer-support pattern later formalised by moderated communities.
Reading alt.psychology.help today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — alt.psychology.help (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.