Since I am sitting on hold on the phone, I was doing some thinking. What do you think about a weekly poll on a topic to see what people think about certain things?
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Since I am sitting on hold on the phone, I was doing some thinking. What do you think about a weekly poll on a topic to see what people think about certain things?
Dear David, it is actually quite normal for ppl to think you are trying to scam them. We are so used to being seen as victims that we do not trust much anymore. My mom has bi-polar and she is not treated and I was diagnosed nine months ago with the same thing. It’s a very “sensitive” area that you are exploring and is quite normal that your willingness to help is seen as otherwise. You have to ask yourself: How much of it is actual helping, and how much of it is actually just about helping myself? And if the material on your website is seen as offensive or illegal, maybe you should consider support from your government or some private clinic. At least you would get some credentials and backup in case someone wants to stir up trouble. I don’t think you’re a scammer, although your big heart may not be expressed the right way. And if you are trying to scam, well I’ll be on your toes… hehe
Yours truely, Canadian-Nat
I think a chat room would be better than a poll.. hint hint hint, LOL
Make that 2 votes for the chatroom! But yes I do agree that a poll would be helpful to most, especially you. Post some topic ideas and go with whatever gets the most votes. Im sure that would minimize your volume of emails tremendously. (Im trying to figure out where you find the time to eat and sleep with all that you are doing here). But its great.
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did my original long message get lost
I sent a very long comment and I am having trouble with my internet so it may have been lost. See if you can findit or tell me where to look here Thankyou Patsy
I would definitely love to participate in the polls if you set it up!!! Please do!
I want a chat room to talk to fellow bipolar people, someone who understands, who relates and can give advice when they were going through that particular situation. A chat room for a bipolar, friend of bipolar, spouse of bipolar, and so on would probably benefit at the very moment that help is needed, just a type of a few words to get into a chat room and conversations can be started and understanding can be gotten.
David, I know that I just wrote something about a chat room. In all that is good, I honestly think it would immensely help people such as my self. It was 3-5 nights ago I e-mailed you during a time that was really out of desperation. I received no e-mail in return. I was having a manic episode and I was incapable to get it together. This is why a chat room is imperitive. With a chat room there is immediate response. Many kudos for a chat room.
To Jaime,
Somethign like that is coming in the future, but it requires a lot of planning and upfront money. It’s not in my budget this month or within my ability to setup this month.
I am backlogged with a bunch of other things but something like that is coming.
There is plenty of FREE online resources.
http://www.bravenet.com has free chat rooms,messageboards/guestbooks etc….
CHAT ROOMS/FORUMS/FREE INFORMATION: This is for Rose, Jaime, Kosh and anyone else interested. I already gave these links to David. They are to a really great site that offers a tremendous amount of support for bipolar disorder and other disorders as well, free information, chat rooms, and awesome forums that get attention 24/7 from many many members.
This link here will give you information about all that the site has to offer for bipolar disorder: http://bipolar.about.com/cs/essentials/l/bl_ess_support.htm
This link here will take you directly to Bipolar Chat rooms on the site: http://stepchat.com/bipolar/index.htm
This link will take you directly to suicide crisis resources: http://bipolar.about.com/cs/suicide/a/bl_suicrisis.htm
This link will take you to the Forum membership site:
http://bipolar.about.com/cs/essentials/a/ess_forums.htm
This link will take you directly to the forums themselves, you can log in as a guest or you can join, you can not post unless you are a member but you can read other posts, joining is FREE:
http://login.about.com/forums.htm?seamlesswebtag=http%3A%2F%2Fforums%2Eabout%2Ecom%2Fab%2Dbipolar%2Fstart%3FredirCnt%3D1&webtag=ab-bipolar
My screenname on this site is angelofdarkness94, nice to meet you, hopefully I will see some of you around. Good Luck and Take Care!!
Angel/Carmen
Here’s another vote for a chatroom.
is bipolar a tag for feelng so bad inside every day of life and living with a spin of whirling thoughts mostly useless but unable to let go of? is it feeling scard to interact with other people because you feel “different” and are afraid others will see it? God, it is miserable