About Bipolar Disorder Community Support and News

Forums, Chat, Newsletters, Crisis Resources and Volunteer Staff

About Bipolar Disorder has a wide variety of support resources available and a dedicated crew of volunteers who share their time and energy on our three forums and in our four chat rooms. Meet the Guides and volunteers, keep yourself informed about issues, updates and changes at our site, and explore the resources that are here for you.

Guides: Kimberly Bailey and Marcia Purse

Volunteer Staff: Community Coordinator, Chat and Forum Hosts, Community Leaders and Chat Assistants

Forums

We have three forums - our Main Forum, Bipolar Complications, and Bipolar Coping and Communications. Use these message boards for support, information, sharing, and keeping in touch. Detailed information about the About Bipolar Disorder Forums.

About Bipolar Disorder Chat

• Rules for chatting
• Chat login page

Please read both these pages before entering Chat the first time, or if you haven't read them before.

Newsletters

Every Tuesday we send out our email newsletter featuring articles on all topics related to bipolar disorder, forum discussions you may want to read or join, even links to material on other sites on and off the About.com network that will be helpful to our community.
Sign up for the About Bipolar Disorder newsletter

We also offer the "Bipolar Basics I" newsletter e-course. This four-week course will send you one newsletter a week walking you through the most common questions about bipolar disorder in easy-to-understand language.
Sign up for Bipolar Basics I

Suicide Crisis Resources

If you find yourself in an immediate suicidal crisis situation and need to contact someone, go to one the resources listed here, find the nearest helpline, and ask for help. Don't stop to think about it, just do it.