Category: chat questions

Chat Questions – August 4, 2016

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This week, we’re talking sex!

Remember that you don’t have to answer the questions out loud – thinking about them can be enough to work out feelings, etc.

Q1: Please introduce yourself in a way you’re comfortable sharing

Q2: Are you happy with your current sex life? Why or why not?

Q3: How much do you feel like your illness interferes with your sex life?

Q4: Do you feel comfortable bringing up issues RE sex with your health care team?

Q5: Do you feel like your HCPs care about your quality of life – relationships, sex, etc?

Q6: What is the thing you think is sexiest about you?

 

Chat Questions 7-21-2016

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We’re focusing on ourselves a bit tonight.

Q1: Please introduce yourself in a way you’re comfortable sharing – what about a selfie?

Q2: It’s been two weeks since we last met. How are you doing?

Q3: What have you done for self-care since we last talked?

Q4: What is your favorite thing about yourself?

Q5: What are you doing for fun right now?

 

 

Chat Questions 7-7-2016

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With everything going on this week, we’re focusing on self-care tonight.

Q1: Please introduce yourself in a way you’re comfortable sharing.

Q2: How is your week going?

It’s been a hard few days for many of us. Let’s talk self-care tonight.

Q3: Have you done anything this week to practice self-care? What was it?

Q4: What would your advice be to another spoonie who is having a hard time with self-care?

Q5: Name one self-care thing you will do this weekend.

Q6: If you were given the chance to create your perfect world, what would be your first step?

Chat Questions for June 16, 2016

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This week we are focusing on self-love and self-care:

Q1: Please introduce yourself in a way you’re comfortable sharing.

Q2: How are you doing with taking care of yourself? What about loving yourself?

Q3: What are some roadblocks you’re hitting in practicing self-love and self-care?

Q4: What are some of your favorite ways to take care of yourself?

Q5: What advice would you give to a friend or loved one on self-care and self-love?

Q6: Fun question time! What is your favorite song to dance to right now?

 

 

This Week’s Chat is Wednesday, June 8!

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This week, we’re doing a special chat! I am hosting #SpoonieChat for our dear friend Dawn. #SpoonieChat occurs on Wednesdays beginning at 8 pm Eastern (NYC) Time and running for two hours.

Our questions for this week will be based on gathering a better understanding of how sex is discussed for us chronic illness peeps:

Since we are doing a crossover with Spoonie Chat, please use the tag #spooniechat tonight. Note that there will be no #chronicsex tomorrow (June 9) then.

Q1: Please introduce yourself in a way you’re comfortable sharing.

Q2: How much do you feel your illness has affected your self-love, relationships, and sex life?

Q3: Have you found any activities, exercises, or resources to help with these issues?

The next questions ask for some imaginative thinking – put on your thinking caps!

Q4: Imagine you’re 20. What advice would you want to get on these subjects with illness?

Q5: Imagine you’re 50. What advice would you give to your child about these issues?

Q6: If you could have dinner with any famous person with an illness or disability, who would it be and why?

 

 

Chat Questions 5-26-2016

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We have some exciting updates to share!

Chronic Sex now has its own Twitter and Instagram accounts! You can find both under @chronicsexchat. All of the chat questions will now come from the CS Twitter account instead of a personal account.

We’re also always looking for guest posts or anyone who may regularly want to blog – anonymously or publicly – here. We’re also looking for guests for our upcoming podcast! Make sure to email kirsten -at- chronicsex -dot- org if you’re interested.

YAY!

Without further ado, here are this week’s chat questions:

Our questions for tonight center around sex:

Q1: Please introduce yourself in a way you’re comfortable sharing

Q2: Do your HCPs (health care providers – nurses, docs, etc) ever ask questions about your sex life?

Q3: Do you feel that your HCPs could answer any sexy questions you may have?

Q4: What questions about sex and illness/disability would you like to see addressed?

Q5: If you could give advice to a college student with your condition (or your younger self) RE sex, what would it be?

Q6: Here in the US, it’s just about Memorial Day weekend. Do you have any fun long-weekend plans?

And please don’t forget to support our upcoming podcast! This is my last week in my day job because I’m working on taking CS full time. A little support would definitely go a long way!

 

 

Chat Questions 5-12-2016

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Our questions for tonight are all about representation of sex and sexuality for the chronically ill/disability community:

Q1: Please introduce yourself in a way you’re comfortable sharing

Q2: How do you feel about sex as portrayed in the media? Positively, negatively, or mixed?

Q3: Do you have examples of positive chronic illness or disability-related sexuality in media?

Q4: Are there any people in the media (actors, singers, etc) with illnesses you’d like to see more about?

Q5: What would you like to see from the media in regards to sexuality and illness?

Q6: If you could have any movie star play your love interest, who would you pick & why?

Don’t forget to support our upcoming podcast!

 

 

Questions for 4-28-2016

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Hi all!

Due to illness, I didn’t do a great job this past week of writing up the questions ahead of time. Oops!

In order to be more accessible, I’m listing the questions in text-form below as well. 

Since this is post-chat, though, I have included some pieces of discussions from the Twitter chat or the private/secret Facebook group. If you would like to join that group, click here to friend me. Then send me a message about joining. You don’t have to stay friends with me, but it would sure be fun!

Q1: Please introduce yourself in a way you’re comfortable sharing.

Q2: What do you find the most frustrating about your illnesses and relationships?

People tend to protect themselves, reducing the serious of their relationships because of the need to be more flexible regarding needs, timing, etc. Other cited the emotional and mental toll pain takes on us all. Family – especially in-laws – tend to put unneeded pressure on our relationships.

Analogies can help us explain or relate to others. This is a part of why The Spoon Theory is popular.

Q3: What are some ways your loved ones (partners, family, etc) help with your pain?

Understanding. Helping us get to/from appointments and errands. Staying with us or hanging out, especially during flare-ups.

Q4: What are some things you wish loved ones would do to help? Is there a way to be more helpful? 

Calling when someone is at a store or running errands to see if we need/want anything. Bringing by take-out and spending time with us when we’re unwell is a huge help. Cook! Pick up prescriptions.

Q5: If you could help your loved ones understand only ONE of your symptoms, which would you pick & why? 

Fatigue/exhaustion was definitely the top answer. Unpredictability of illness issues was another high one. It would be nice if others could understand a little more what it is like to have to adopt certain mentalities/ways of thinking because of our illnesses.

Q6: What are you doing with loved ones over the next week to have fun?

What are some of your answers to these questions? Do you agree with fatigue/exhaustion being the top answer for question five?

Have a great week!

 

 

Chat Questions for April 7, 2016

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On Monday, I attended the Health Care Providers’ one-day conference on What Aren’t They Talking About? Sex and Identity in Clinical Practice with Milwaukee Share. It was an amazing day and I really learned a lot.
Tonight’s questions are based on what I learned from Joan Price, Robin Marshall, Ashley Altadonna, and Lady Sophia. There will be a full blog post on this coming soon, but for now enjoy tonight’s questions.

I hope you can join us tonight!

Chat Questions for March 31, 2016

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Here are this week’s questions all about sleep!

Some resources and more on sleep: