OCD Weekly Support Chat!

Hello! I am going to be the OCD chat leader, And I wanted to make a poll/introduction post to see how everyone feels about it and who is interested in participating.

A bit about me; I was diagnosed with OCD when I was seven years old. I am now twenty-three, so I have been living with this disorder for sixteen years. I have gone to therapies for it, gone through the many ups and downs of treatment and management, and have helped my terminally ill brother who happened to have OCD. I know OCD is one of the more difficult mental illnesses to understand, but I have done my best to teach myself on the topic through my own experiences and further readings. I am a mental health advocate who writes for an online mental health journal, and a few of my articles have been about OCD and common misconceptions.

My question for you; what would you like to see in this chat?

After talking to a few people and hearing comments about support chats, I think having this chat be structured with a posted topic weekly will be the most helpful and beneficial. For example, one topic can be Treatments For OCD, another can be Managing OCD, etc. But I think having open forum discussions where we can share our struggles, and are successes, is important as well.

I have added a poll to this thread to see what day of the week, and more importantly, what times would be good for everyone. Since I am currently undergoing many tests/doctors appointments for Lupus or RA, I am pretty much home bound for the time being. So be honest, and let me know what you think/what you want!

I love the idea of an OCD support chat... I would love a chance to share some of my experiences and hear about what others are going through.

I usually am on PC in the evenings, unfortunately, I'm on the West Coast, so I'm usually not online at any of the times you offered.

What times would be good for you? I don't think I can edit the poll, But I will consider it of course! I think if there are enough people, that I can split that chat up to two times in the same day with the same topic, etc.

Any day, after 9:00pm, PST...

Okay, I'll see what I can do.

I think, depending on the day, I'll split up the chat in to two parts, where the same topics will be discussed, just at different times. Sound good with everyone? I want everyone who wants to be involved to be included, not just the few.