17-01-2022 12:32 AM
17-01-2022 12:32 AM
Think through your decision re uni.
But of course your health is more important than a degree. Do what makes you happy and do the things you enjoy.
17-01-2022 08:06 AM
17-01-2022 08:48 AM
17-01-2022 08:48 AM
Hi, online peoples. I have a significant mental health profile of woe's. What led me here was depression and anxiety ramping up - especially with isolation with COVID. Several support people, professional, are no longer available to me. So my positive beginning to the day was, after going back to bed...I did the mindful affirmation bit, started housework, ATE BREAKFAST!,and joined the SANE forum.
17-01-2022 10:43 AM - edited 18-01-2022 12:44 AM
17-01-2022 10:43 AM - edited 18-01-2022 12:44 AM
Hello @PhoenixJ
I think your significant achievement for the day is finding your way to the "Daily Achievements" thread.
Welcome to the forum, which hopefully might become an additional resource for you in your efforts to deal with depression and anxiety. I do hope that what you see and offer here will be mutually and reciprocally supportive.
People on the forum face a range of issues that are expressed and discussed fairly openly. It is worth having a look at the Guidelines & Info, which can be accessed through that link.
I would think that joining the forum may be a good stating point for the day. I do hope that you find it so.
With Best Wishes
P.S. the following guidelines for navigating the forum site in the ways suggested, though comprehensive, may, I hope, be helpful.
Following that, I have added a more detailed description of the process of
Posting a Comment and Replying to Another Post
and
Accessing and Responding to "Your Notifications"
"Your Notifications" are advice of messages that have been addressed to you, or from threads in which you have been active.
When you write a post, you can add member addresses to include other Forum members in the discussion.
Start a new discussion or click 'Reply' or 'Quick reply' on a post.
Type @ {in the Reply box} then start typing a member name you want to include:
In 'Reply' you'll see a list of suggested member names.
In 'Quick reply', you need to type the whole name.
Select or type the member name and you'll see it linked in your post.
Add more member names the same way if you like, finish your post and click 'Post'. The member will get a notification saying they've been mentioned in your post.” {copied from Guidelines & Info}
I have added the following, more detailed guide, which I hope will be of help in using the functions of the forum. If you have any problems, just ask from wherever you are and someone will offer assistance.
Posting a Comment and Replying to Another Post
When you want to reply to a post with someone's forum address, e.g., @HenryX
Forum Name = HenryX Forum Address = @ + HenryX = @HenryX
Click the REPLY oval to the bottom right of the post to which you intend replying
With the cursor in the REPLY box, type the "@" symbol {without quotation marks / inverted commas} This will open a drop down menu with up to five or six Forum Addresses of people who have commented in the thread in which you wish to post a REPLY
The @ symbol cannot be adjacent to any other letter or symbol, in front of, or behind, in order for the drop-down menu to appear P@,J = X P @ ,J = ✔
Selecting a Forum Address from the list will automatically enter that Forum Address into the REPLY box. An alert to the person concerned, when the message is posted, will appear in their "Your Notifications" page-list.
Repeat steps 2 to 4 to include additional Forum Address entries into the REPLY box
Enter the comment that you wish to offer, then click POST once, and click POST again. {Two POST clicks are normally required. However, if the comment does not post on the second click, check above and below the reply box for Error Messages.
If you see this timeout message, Don't panic:
"Authentication Failed.
Authentication Ticket Mismatched, failed authentication."
Copy the whole of the message that you have typed into the REPLY box to your clipboard, refresh the page ⟳ {top left of browser window}, and, after the page is refreshed, check the message. If it remains in the REPLY box, then click POST once, and click POST again."Your post has been changed because invalid HTML was found in the message body. The invalid HTML has been removed. Please review the message and submit the message when you are satisfied."
That should complete the message process unless there are any other error messages that require attention.Additional Notes.
When you are copying from the REPLY box, before refreshing, I believe that forum addresses do "copy and paste" back into the same refreshed REPLY box properly, as active links that will produce a notification to the intended recipient.
The process above is what I had to do with this message because I took so long to write the message. That is when the dreaded "Authentication Failed" message most often appears.
Another way of avoiding the dreaded "Authentication Failed", when writing longer messages, is to write the message in your word processor {Microsoft Word, Apache OpenOffice Writer, etc} and then "copy and paste" the text, from the word processor document, into the REPLY box,
add the desired Forum Addresses and then post your message.
Caution: I believe that forum addresses do not copy and paste properly from the word processor as functional links, so it is best to enter all forum addresses directly into the Reply box when using a word processor for your draft copy.
Accessing and Responding to "Your Notifications"
Toward the top right of the forum page, to the right of Guidelines & Info, is placed the word New .
Clicking on the word New will open your "Your Notifications" page
The "Your Notifications" page displays a list of notifications, addressed to you. The notification is sent when another member has entered your forum address to alert you to their message. You will also receive notification of messages, that have been posted by other members, in threads to which you have also posted, in which you have been active or have subscribed to the thread.
In the "Your Notifications" page, Left click on the link, which will be displayed like this;
" Re: Henry's Landing Strip & Hangar " {with the prefix "Re:" but without quotation marks / inverted commas} A Left click on the link will open the link and the included message in the same browser TAB as the "Your Notifications" browser TAB, or
If there are a number of message alerts, I find it easier to open two or three of them, at a time, in new browser TABs
If you have any other questions, to which you would like answers or guidance, you are welcome to post them here, or in the thread in which you are active and another member or I will be happy to offer assistance.
With Best Wishes
17-01-2022 11:35 AM
17-01-2022 11:35 AM
thank you
17-01-2022 12:05 PM
17-01-2022 12:05 PM
Hello @PhoenixJ
Each day in context.
Each person in context.
Good Job! Hope you find it worthwhile. I have.
Take Care
Apple
17-01-2022 12:28 PM
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17-01-2022 06:20 PM
17-01-2022 06:20 PM
Well done for doing the shopping and going to Bunnings my darling @Meowmy 😃👍
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