Depression Support Group
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I also remember a "fix" for turning the chat bar on/off. There may be a topic on that in the DS Members support group:
http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Members-Community/support-group
You can also report this via the feed back form.
Are you sure you have not turned off the chat bar? Click on My Account over to the left side of this page and see if you have it set to EITHER everyone or DS only. The other choice is OFF .. don't show the chat bar.
If you are running IE9, you will have to use a different browser for DS .. such as FIREFOX, CHROME, OR SAFARI.