Question
A social networking website dedicated to help individuals going through a hard time, from alcohol abuse, breakups, grief, relationship, discrimination, teen pregnancy, suicidal thoughts etc. Individuals will consult each other on such subjects they are going through and help each other get over the problem by relating to each other and share the steps one took to over come the problem. You can visit the site to read articles, blogs and advice on topics.
It includes features such as
Journals -Create and edit your own journal posts and follow and comment on other users posts includes an option to publish the post.
Answers -Post questions on any of several categories and respond to questions from other users
Groups -Find topics that interest you whether related to the same problem you have or not and join groups to participate in the discussion
Answer
The challenge with these kind of issues is that they are not ones people like to share. A social network requires profiles to be public & discoverable or people can't network.
I do think a site that people can privately create a profile, and reach out to curated experts, doctors, etc would be a great resource, but that being said - their are a few sites doing this in the health space (ex: http://healthtap.com).
Build a social support network will be tough, and the hard things to solve will be the social part (ex: do you require profiles to use real identities? are these profile indexed by google?, etc).
Hope that helps a bit.
