Chat

Our live chat group takes place monthly on the first Wednesday of the month at 7pm - 9pm. If you're affected by low mood and depression, you are welcome to come along.

New Chat Dates:

1st Feb: 7pm - 9pm Theme:  Talking about depression with others     
7th March:  7pm - 9pm Theme:  Relaxation Techniques
4th April:  7pm - 9pm Theme:  Rules for living

If you have any 'theme' suggestions, please do let us know.  It's good to hear what you'd like to chat about and use chat for.

Email the address on the right if you'd like to be sent an email reminder about chat, and we'll email you the day before. See you there!

  1. You can get into the chatroom via our community section
  2. You’ll need to register for the community, but don't worry - you don’t have to use your real name. 
  3. When the chat is live, you'll see the "join chat" link under the countdown clock.
  4. When inside the chat, type your message in the box and press "chat".

It's very important to us that you feel safe to talk about how you are feeling and problems in your life. Here are some tips on staying safe in the chatroom and online in general. 

Most people are who they say they are, but you can never be 100% certain online and neither can we. We'd recommend you take care online by using a nickname. and don't give out any identifying details in the chat room such as:

Where you live - The area and city or town where you live is ok but it's not a good idea to give more than that. 

Details of where you work or study. It's fine to say where you study or work but we'd recommend you don't give much more detail than that. 

Explicit details of where you will be socialising and when. Saying you like to go to a particular bar is fine, but not that you'll be there at 7pm on Thursday. 

Details about your family 

We don't recommend you give out any contact details but if you want to give your email address, set up an address that doesn't identify you. You can get free email addresses online from sites like Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo!.

If anybody harasses or bullies you or makes you feel uncomfortable either in the chatroom or by private message (PM), PM the chat facilitator (who will have @LOFC after their name) or ignore them (instructions under using chat).

In order to keep chat safe, there is some behaviour which is unacceptable. Anyone engaging in these behaviours will be kicked from chat. 

  1. Personal insults of any form, e.g., based on a person’s sex, age, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability 
  2. Obscene language - we don't mind a little swearing (we can't really with our campaign name!) but excessive obscene language is not acceptable
  3. Suggestive, or over-familiar behaviour to another chatter
  4. Any bullying or abusive behaviour

Email ask@lookokfeelcrap.org with "Chat Reminder" in the heading to be sent a reminder about the next chat date and time.