Hello, my name is Mosken. I live in Norway and I am the owner of this board. I founded the board together with my friend Linda/ebgirl in California. The board
was build during some spring months in 2001. The official creation day of the account is April 18th 2001 and the first post was this post of April 23th. You
can read more on my website:
www.mosken.com
http://friends.mosken.com/
You have come to a non-profit, member based online community for people with different kind of health problems. The daily result depends on the members. The more you contribute, the more you will get back! Our board is a joint effort of volunteers who support each other.
Our support group is based on the "Pillars Of Self-Help":
- Self-help builds on the participant's own innate resources.
- Everybody participates at their own risk.
- The group is based on give-and-take, equal worth, and tolerance.
- The group is based on active participation, not on the role of a passive recipient.
Linda once said:
- Mosken and I have a dream, to have this little town in cyberspace, for all who are in need. That they can come and feel the comfort of having people around that understand our huge obstacles.
Our most importent forums are:
Coping and health problems
Smalltalk to be social
Information links/library
Are all healthrelated forums for people with chronic pain (including back pain), FMS, CFS, ME, EBV and/or immune disorders in general. The Coping forum is used for all kind of venting, personal problems, depression and medical questions and discussions of all kind.
We offer information on Chronic pain, back pain, Fibromyalgia (FMS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS, ME) symptoms, treatment and research. We have a special forum for Fibromyalgia Syndrome/Pain Research.
Every day we start a Daily Thread in Smalltalk.
Because we live in different timezones, some of us say good morning while others say good night and "chat" a little.
I recommend everybody to tell a little about themselves in the introduction forum. But you don't have to tell anything, if you don't want to.
Our volunteer staff team:
Mosken/Sunshine56 from Norway is the administrator and boardowner and provides this service for the community on a volunteer basis.
The support group has a medical consultant from the USA: Kit/kiturah in our forum for Coping and Healthproblems.
We have 5 active volunteer moderators:
Sunshine56 /Mosken-the owner
Amberlover /Virginia
tecjb /Leslie
Kinga27/Lisbeth
Smalltalk moderator:
2ndsunrise
Moderator in the Norwegian part:
Astrid/Astrid66
The board's main language is English, though it is allowed to write in Norwegian or another language if you want. We also have 4 forums for Norwegians in Norwegian, but only 2 of them are for posting:
Norsk forum/forum in Norwegian
Småprat/smalltalk in Norwegian
You are welcome to post pictures, photos and graphics in most of our forums. It will be more easy for others to read though, if you keep the pictures and graphics small.
Some of us talk together on headsets without typing. Please join us if you want. Just put up a post in Smalltalk.
Mosken/Sunshine56
This is me:/Mosken:
www.mosken.com
http://friends.mosken.com/
You have come to a non-profit, member based online community for people with different kind of health problems. The daily result depends on the members. The more you contribute, the more you will get back! Our board is a joint effort of volunteers who support each other.
Our support group is based on the "Pillars Of Self-Help":
- Self-help builds on the participant's own innate resources.
- Everybody participates at their own risk.
- The group is based on give-and-take, equal worth, and tolerance.
- The group is based on active participation, not on the role of a passive recipient.
Linda once said:
- Mosken and I have a dream, to have this little town in cyberspace, for all who are in need. That they can come and feel the comfort of having people around that understand our huge obstacles.
Our most importent forums are:
Coping and health problems
Smalltalk to be social
Information links/library
Are all healthrelated forums for people with chronic pain (including back pain), FMS, CFS, ME, EBV and/or immune disorders in general. The Coping forum is used for all kind of venting, personal problems, depression and medical questions and discussions of all kind.
We offer information on Chronic pain, back pain, Fibromyalgia (FMS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS, ME) symptoms, treatment and research. We have a special forum for Fibromyalgia Syndrome/Pain Research.
Every day we start a Daily Thread in Smalltalk.
Because we live in different timezones, some of us say good morning while others say good night and "chat" a little.
I recommend everybody to tell a little about themselves in the introduction forum. But you don't have to tell anything, if you don't want to.
Our volunteer staff team:
Mosken/Sunshine56 from Norway is the administrator and boardowner and provides this service for the community on a volunteer basis.
The support group has a medical consultant from the USA: Kit/kiturah in our forum for Coping and Healthproblems.
We have 5 active volunteer moderators:
Sunshine56 /Mosken-the owner
Amberlover /Virginia
tecjb /Leslie
Kinga27/Lisbeth
Smalltalk moderator:
2ndsunrise
Moderator in the Norwegian part:
Astrid/Astrid66
The board's main language is English, though it is allowed to write in Norwegian or another language if you want. We also have 4 forums for Norwegians in Norwegian, but only 2 of them are for posting:
Norsk forum/forum in Norwegian
Småprat/smalltalk in Norwegian
You are welcome to post pictures, photos and graphics in most of our forums. It will be more easy for others to read though, if you keep the pictures and graphics small.
Some of us talk together on headsets without typing. Please join us if you want. Just put up a post in Smalltalk.
Mosken/Sunshine56
This is me:/Mosken:
USA
This is
the best place to be anywhere on the internet for support
and friendship for any kind of chronic pain. I hope we
see you over in Smalltalk (our living room) where we
chitchat about almost everything! I'm looking forward to
getting to know you better. 
