FORUM TUTORIALS – Forums and Topics.

This tutorial will walk you through navigating around our forums and their topics.

Once you are logged in, you can contribute to the conversation topics in our forums. In this tutorial lets go into the Acute stress disorder in the Anxiety Disorder forum.

In that forum there is a topic called “If you are new, say Hi”  

  • To comment on that topic, you will see two options in the blue bar above the post Reply and Report. Click Reply, and type in your comments, and click Submit. If you want to you can choose to get an email notification of a response if there are additional replies by clicking the Notify check box to the left of the submit button.  This might be useful if you do not log in very often, but is not completely necessary because your member notification in the top black bar will also tell you when there are new reply notifications for you.

Alternatively, if you found this to be an inappropriate post that violates the forum use guidelines, you can click Report (the other option in the blue bar above the post), and now this is flagged for the moderators to look at, and take the appropriate action. That is all you need to do. The individual who you are reporting will never know who it is that reported them.

This feature is there to protect the members of the community.  Again, if you observe behavior that is a violation of our usage guidelines, or someone is attacking you personally, please feel free to report the post.

  • To create your own topic in a forum, select the topic from the forum homepage. To follow along lets select the Acute Distress Disorder topic. Scroll down to the Create New Topic section, enter a title for your topic, and enter the topic itself. Finally click SUBMIT. If you want to you can choose to get an email notification of a response if there are additional replies by clicking the Notify check box to the left of the submit button.  This might be useful if you do not log in very often, but is not completely necessary because your member notification in the top black bar will also tell you when there are new reply notifications for you.

In addition to responding to topics and creating your own, you can set forums and topics as favorites and you can subscribe to them to get notifications when there are new posts.  When it is a favorite, you will be able to navigate to it quickly, and when you subscribe you will get notified when there are new posts.

Details on how to get to your favorites and where you will see notifications will be in the video called community features.

Now you are equipped to reply to posts in topics in our forum and to create your own topics for people to add their voice to.