Bipolar Support Chat topic - October 28

Hey everyone,
I was thinking about what we should/could discuss this week, and came up with a few options. I was wondering what everyone thought!

The topics are:
1. Stigma
2. Coping skills to deal with manic episodes
3. Coping skills to deal with depressive episodes
4. Medication
5. Differences between the various Bipolar diagnoses (Bipolar 1, Bipolar 2, Bipolar NOS, and Cyclothymia)

I have it posted as a poll, and hopefully people will vote on the topic for this week! The poll will close in three days (to give time for people to vote before the chat starts on Tuesday evening).

I am hoping (and planning) to discuss each of these topics at some point, unless it is obvious that there is no interest in them.

I'm not sure whether or not poles work on phones...but I vote for number three.

Two would be nice to discuss also.

Hi Living Chaos.

What time is the chat?

I live in Australia and I'm trying to work out what time I'd need to log in to view the chat?

Hi,

The chat is on Tuesday, October 28 from 10-11pm EST. Depending on where you're at in Australia, that would mean it would be Wednesday morning or early afternoon on October 29 for you. What time zone are you in? The chat is listed on the calendar.

It is immediately following DocJohn's Q&A chat, if you know when that is for you.

Hope this helps!

Hi all! I want to participate in the chat this week, but can someone tell me how I log into chat? Do I just go to the calendar, click on the link for the chat, and follow a prompt or something?

Hi there!

If you go to the main forums page, there is a a button at the top that says "Chat" and has a number next to it. If you hover over that button, there are various options to enter chat - Flash Chat or No Pop-Up Chat tend to be the two better options to use, unless you are using a mobile device. When you enter chat, you'll find a list of all of the available rooms to enter. Just find the one that is titled "Bipolar Support Chat" and lists me (Living in Chaos) as the creator of the room, and come on in!

OK good, thanks!

No problem! See you on Tuesday evening!

Make sure you vote on this week's topic!

I am bumping this in the hopes that more people will see it and vote on a topic.

By tomorrow, I will change my mind 1000 times, so how about all of the topics, lol.

We will talk about all of the topics eventually. I want to discuss one topic each week, and we can maybe revisit some topics, if it seems like people want to.

Oh, that's quite fine with me. What time will it start and how/where do you enter?