Hello!
I have no idea if anyone can help with ideas or websites etc but I thought I’d give it a go.
I’m a full time carer to my husband. He has MS, epilepsy, back & hip problems and as his physical health has declined over the years, so has his mental health.
He loves to talk! I actually call him a chronic talker, as he can talk from as soon as he wakes up, until he goes to sleep lol Which is fine, until I need to do the housework, gardening or run errands. It’s like he needs to talk constantly to help his anxiety and depression but me being responsible for everything in the house and a dog, I unfortunately can’t just sit and listen to him talk all day. We’d have no clean plates or laundry! Lol I saw a website called Omegle and told him he could video chat to different people across the world face to face and that seemed perfect for him, for when I have to do things but it turns out, it’s actually quite inappropriate We looked in to chat sites but they cost a lot of money and also seem very inappropriate.
He was having sessions with someone through talking therapies, put forward by his GP but that’s ended now.
Does anyone know of anything else like Omegle that he could talk to someone with but is actually safe?
His whole life he was apart of groups, scouts, acting societies, dancing schools but now he can only hobble about on a stick and has to use a power wheelchair for long distance, he feels like he can’t really do anything like that now, so he’s gone from being surrounded by people, to just having me, which he says he loves but he likes being more social.
I’ve tried to convince him to join local groups but he won’t. He’s estranged from his family and neither of us have friends.