Important Community Reminder!
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| Tue, 04-24-2007 - 9:54pm |
Hello All,
I'm writing to remind everyone that it is in ALL of our best interests to do our part to keep this a safe and supportive community! You are all excellent at supporting each other and sharing your thoughts, feelings and experiences here and we as cls appreciate that and thank you for it! It is a pleasure being here for you ALL!
What DOES make things potentially difficult at best and dangerous at worst, is when a member, in deep despair posts a graphic suicide plan, goodbye letter, or methodology to achieving that end. Even if WE as an individual are in a safe place emotionally and can handle that graphic reading it is not good for our community as a whole and ivillage at that point would likely remove such posts anyway in order to keep everyone safe.
You see, when we write, our words can either positively or negatively impact someone else and while it is true that each of us ultimately holds responsibility for the choices we make in life, ivillage has determined that to allow such graphic suicide notes/plans/intent on this board could potentially cause harm and so we must ask that members refrain from posting those types of messages on here.
It is STILL okay to share your feelings, your thoughts and your experiences with depression, anxiety, and yes it is even okay to sy you are feeling suicidal. It is okay to ask for support or to say "I'm really not feeling safe and am afraid I may act on it" but anything very graphic and descriptive is not something that we can allow --for the safety and support of EVERYONE.
Any questions please feel free to ask myself, jan or our community moderators, Cindi or Karla. Wishing you all a peaceful night! Hugs, Lori


This post is being bumped up as a reminder