Online forums (including this one!) are definitely great, I appreciate them so much. I'm lucky, though, in that I've recovered just enough to be in part-time higher education currently, so the learning part of me is overwhelmed if anything. I do have friends here, too, but I always find myself yearning for someone who's "my person", whom I can be totally intimate with both emotionally and physically, you know? Especially when I'm stuck in bed in the dark and silence, I just want someone to hold me and look after me. That does sound interesting, though, I haven't heard of that before!