BaffledOwl1970 Report post Posted January 2, 2011 Hi - I want to set up a blog about living with AS and schizophrenia. Does anyone know of the best site I can use to do this? Thanks in advance. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
matzoball Report post Posted January 3, 2011 Tumblr is great - can be as complicated or as simple as you want! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lifevoyager Report post Posted January 4, 2011 Wordpress.org or blogger.com offer free blogs which are easy to use. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beth_ Report post Posted January 5, 2011 I use Wordpress for mine, I use it for a lot of sites and blogs, it's really user friendly http://www.aspergirl.co.uk/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BaffledOwl1970 Report post Posted January 8, 2011 Thanks everyone - will look at them all and see which one suits me best. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anewman Report post Posted January 8, 2011 Out of interest, is there any doubts about the diagnosis of Schizophrenia? I ask because as an Aspie I was misdiagnosed Schizophrenic, primarily because I said my mother's boyfriend was being mentally abusive to me but he and my mother denied it. My mother had actually just been on a Psychiatric ward herself for Schizophrenia and the boyfriend was a fellow patient whom she brought home as soon as she was discharged. So given my AS symptoms, what appeared to be paranoia (but was not), and a family history, I was misdiagnosed Schizophrenic. I would say one key indicator of you not having Schizophrenia is if the atypical anti-psychotics like Risperidone, Amisulrpide, Clozapine, Olanzapine etc do not "work". When I was prescribed them I had severe complications from the side-effects as they kept increasing the dose to far above the maximum levels recommended in the hope it would make me better. Anyway I won't go on about it as only you know if you really did hear voices and have beliefs regarding thought insertion/control/broadcast and so on, and if drugs do control it. But if you do want to discuss it further I am happy to as I have an obvious interest in this area. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
matzoball Report post Posted January 8, 2011 (edited) / Edited January 8, 2011 by matzoball Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DameBeverage Report post Posted January 13, 2011 How do you manage bad comments on your bloggs? I have set up a blog with a do-it-yourself website package. I haven't told anyone about it yet (well, I suppose I've told you lot now), so it is out there still kind of invisible, which I am happy about at the moment. I suppose I will tell people when I am ready, perhaps in the next month of so. It is at present just me putting down my planned life journey:bounce:(my ups and downs). I plan to progress with the website as I go along. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anewman Report post Posted January 16, 2011 There is often a "control panel" which lets you change settings. Sometimes you can set it so comments have to be approved before being added. Often there is a moderation option to delete comments. Play around with it with a mock account and see what you can find, and try a few other providers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BaffledOwl1970 Report post Posted January 16, 2011 Hi Anewman - I queried the schizophrenia diagnosis but my psychiatrist is adamant I do have it. I've used 5 different antipsychotics and they all worked except for 1 which was so sedating I stopped it after 1 dose - I now take 750mg quetiapine and it helps. I also know an Aspie guy who was misdiagnosed and has suffered horribly because of it. All this is one reason why I'm keen to do a blog. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anewman Report post Posted January 16, 2011 I've just looked at wordpress and it's amazing, can't believe I was so intent on messing around with PHP and CSS code and doing a site from the ground up. I think Psychiatrists will often not admit they are wrong, because if they do there is the risk of being sued and so on. When I was misdiagnosed it was a case of "stop drugs to observe without", presumably hoping I would start going on about hearing voices and saying weird things, and nothing else was said about it then. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anewman Report post Posted January 18, 2011 Here is my poor effort at a blog http://www.asemp.co.uk/ after some fiddling with widgets and themes. It probably won't go anywhere but hey To do similar you would need a domain name £6 for 2 years at http://www.ukreg.com and hosting with PHP and MySql e.q. http://www.qiq.co.uk/hosting.php £25 a year for basic hosting (there may be cheaper but I don't know). Then you upload and install the wordpress software and play around with the control panel and settings. Or an easier solution is https://en.wordpress.com/signup/ which gives you a free subdomain on wordpress.com. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DameBeverage Report post Posted January 22, 2011 There is often a "control panel" which lets you change settings. Sometimes you can set it so comments have to be approved before being added. Often there is a moderation option to delete comments. Play around with it with a mock account and see what you can find, and try a few other providers. Thanks Anewman, I have had to leave everything for now, due to exhaustion, but I will try and work it out. Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
