I'm really confused on how this works....

Hi kero,

Thanks for your post - which part confuses you the most? Hopefully we can try and help. If you are having trouble starting a new post, you can look at page 1 of this thread - I'll link to it here anyway just in case you're not sure about that -

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/welcome-and-orientation/the-forum-faq-thread-

Please let us know how we can help you navigate these forums more and what you need.

rt

Hi everyone ☺

Rumples welcome to the forums and thanks for your question.

I squizzed at "My account" close to "log out".

Was thinking it'd be in "member profile" "Update profile" but it wasn't so my conclusion would be it has to be done through the moderators.

If you report a post of yours in the top R) side of the text box and ask the mods.

If you have any further probs by all means let us know here ☺

Take care peeps ⚘

Thanks demonblaster,

All fixed:-) Had to get it done from behind the scenes.

Cheers

Hey ☺

Sorry Rumples I meant to say you're very welcome and glad you got it sorted.

Btw congrats on becoming a Community Champion. You guys are awesome ☺

Go easy all 🍫 that's choccy 😲 I left one for everyone to share 😅

welcome to the forum. ZIt is confusing. Let us know if you need help.

Hi everyone ☺

😆 In a spot of bother here.

I've just spent a considerable time doing a post and ... umm ...😆 I've no idea where the thread is.

Actually I'll check anxiety and return if I find it.

Cakeboss is the author. It's a new post.

Thanks if anyone can direct a confused chocolate starved member ☺ that's all it is 😄..nothing else 🙃

Yip yip all good thanks peeps

Sorry to take a bit of your time.

Found it! Woot

Hi demonblaster,

Woot! Glad you didn't lose your post!

I thought I'd just write here for future reference - while you can go to the section where you posted it in, there's also another way.

Up the top of the screen on the home page - you can see three tabs. All Posts, New Posts, and My Threads. All posts shows all the categories (Anxiety, Depression, Staying Well), New posts is well, new posts - and My Threads are all the ones you've ever posted on or replied to.

rt

Hey Romantic ☺ good seeing you

Thanks good idea popping that down.

Have a goody all ⚘

Not sure how to post?

In the last few weeks I've had a palpable numbness in my head. I can't concentrate on anything; I can't even follow a tv show. I feel incredibly doped up.

Is this a feature of anxiety or something else?

Hey Mark7

As Sophie_M mentioned the forums can be tricky to get used to and no its not a feature of anxiety at all....I used to have bad anxiety...Its not you

There is no such thing as a dumb question on the forums Mark7...Take your time and have a look around

you are not alone here

my kind thoughts

Paul

Hello Honeypot,

Welcome to the forums..

Awe please don’t feel stupid..because your not..Its hard to navigate the forums when you first join our community..

The easiest way for you..would be to go back to home page..then select join discussion...then all posts..look for the category you think best fits your questions..Then you will see a blue button with new thread on it...press that then you should be ready to post...

Please come back here and let us know if you are still having problems...only too happy to help you..

Grandy..

Honeypot it took me ages to wok out how to start a thread when I first started and I never thought to ask for help.

Good luck.

Hi Honeypot,

Thank you for your post- please know you are not stupid. We see this question so many times - this forum isn't very user friendly so we are working behind the scenes to change it.

The forums are broken down into sections, like welcome and orientation, depression, anxiety, etc- to see the breakdown of it all, click on this website -

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums

When you click on a section up the top will be the title, like 'Welcome and Orientation' and on the right hand side next to it will be a button that says feed and a button that says new thread.

Here is a little picture of where the button is -

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/images/default-source/10.email/new-thread601d97aaf37161bc846eff0000e9d3fc.png

I hope this explains it well - I know Grandy gave you an explanation too but the more explanations the better I think when it comes to computers ;)

Please reach out if you are still struggling and need help.

rt

Was using REDDIT very much. It has TRIGGERS. Started discussions there, in the Mature Adults section. Some forum topics there have the reputation of being very liberal, or being very severe.

New here. Still exploring. Trigger might be LGBTIQ, Xxx, Surgery, Euthanasia, Politics, Arts, Travel, Family, Alone, Money, Legals, Relationship, Weight, Ugly, Bullied, ...

Reddit has inbuilt algorthyms, that automate most things, so making Moderation much easier for everyone.

Retired CIO myself. We need to show Australia can also meet international standards.

In Adelaide, South Australia, they invented Narrative Therapy. Look out up in Wikipedia.

Whatever you share with others: words, actions, sounds, pictures ... is "narration". If others can understand your"narration", then you have succeeded in successful narration.

Your message here about not being clear about whether you know how to communicate, is your first very successful "narration". Keep communicating. It gets better with practice.

Important in Narrative Therapy is that you progress to a better place than where you were. If we can understand you, and be with you, you have done well.

I used to use a computer before. Now this smartphone is much better. Try doing this too. Gboard automatically gets the spelling, grammar and punctuation correct.

Gboard knows what I am trying to say or type. My problem now is trying to use Gboard on a tablet or a computer, instead of my smartphone.

Still learning myself. Only been here for less than ten minutes.

Might make a YouTube video one day, how to use these internet discussion areas. They did not teach any of this when we were at school.

Welcome Gregz

Narrative therapy sounds interesting. I will look it up.

making a YouTube sounds challenging. I have thought about doing a you tube video but not really sure what to.

have a browse through the threads and you may find threads that will interest you.

Hi gregz,

Welcome and thanks for your comments here.

Thank you for bringing up Reddit. I'm on that platform too. We do have written trigger warnings for trauma and for suicide + self-harm section but unfortunately anything and everything can be a trigger for readers. Behind the scenes there is a lot of automated work happening for the mods- probably similar to Reddit in picking up key words.

As a retired CIO I imagine there's a lot of advice and suggestions that you have for these forums- can I suggest that you jot them down here?

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/welcome-and-orientation/how-can-we-improve-the-forums-your-suggestions-and-comments-please

I have heard of Narrative therapy too, but other than reading about it haven't used it. If you have your own post I'd love to chat with you on there if you want to share more about what it was like for you?

rt