Posting/Replying to messages
Select the Forum that your post is most suited to e.g. Panic, General Anxiety, Introduce Yourself.
If posting a message for the first time then it is really helpful to include information about yourself such as "what you suffer from", "what medication you are on", "what help you have had etc". It is easier then for us to target specific replies to you.
To create a new post within that forum then click on the Attachment 1143 icon at the top and/or bottom of the screen. You will be taken into a screen where you can enter a "Title" and you can then select a smiley face for the "Post icon", if you want to, and then enter your text in the "Message" box.
You can change the font size of your text, the colour, the font face, add bold, underline, italics etc etc. Highlight the text and then use the edit buttons to format your text. You do not need to change any of these and you can just type your message in the box and the font size etc will be at the default.
Once you click on the "Submit new Thread" button then your message will be posted on the forum. At any time you can edit or delete your own posts. Use the Attachment 1144 icon to change the message text or once in the post click on "Thread tools" and then "Delete thread" to remove it. You will not be able to edit or delete other members posts.
If you are reading a post and want to reply then you have 3 options:
Quick Reply
This is available at the very bottom of the thread. Simply enter your reply in the message box and click on "Post Quick Reply".
Post a reply
Click on the Attachment 1145 icon at the top and button of the thread. This will allow you to format the text colour, size etc. The title field is optional and can be left blank. Click on "Submit reply" to save your message.
Reply with quote
If you want to quote the original post in your reply then click on the Attachment 1146 icon next to the relevant post and you will be taken to the editor where you will see the text of the post you are replying to so you can type and edit text as usual then click on "Submit reply".
How to see what posts were made since I was last on
This is easy. Click on "Active topics" at the top of the screen on the menu bar and select the timeframe. The most common one is "Since Last visit" but you can also choose "Last xx hours", "Last week" etc. This even caters for posts in the last 2 Months. This will show you all posts since that time-frame. You can then read and reply as normal. Once you have read/replied to an active topic then click on the browser "back" button to go back to the list of active topics.
Searching for previous posts
Click on "Search" on the menu tool bar at the top of the screen and choose one of two options. Either enter text in the box and click on "Go" or click on the "advanced" option and you will be taken into an additional screen. From here you can refine your search by finding post by a particular member, searching the title of a post only, in a certain time frame or choose the forum in which to restrict the search. You will be given a list of all topics that match your search criteria and the phrase you searched for will be highlighted in that post. To go back to the list of topics simply click on the "back" button on your browser and then you can read the next post that matches your search criteria.
Your Profile/User Control Panel
You can change this at any time. This includes all the info about you including your email address. Simply click on "Quick Links" then "User Control Panel". From here you can add a custom signature that appears under each of your posts, change your password and email address, add your date of birth and instant messaging details (MSN, yahoo etc), turn on/off email and private messages, add an avatar next to your name, upload a picture of yourself to your profile, read your private messages, send new private messages, manage your subscriptions to posts, set up buddy lists etc.
