cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/1360444
For context: One of the rules in that community is that you aren’t allowed to post anything related to suicide. In a mental health community.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We have updated rule 4. Posts that mention suicide are now allowed with proper flags and warnings so people who may feel triggered can avoid them.
The mod team and I have been working hard at making this a space where everyone feels heard and supported. It’s difficult to make sure we are allowing people to talk freely about whatever they need to talk about, but not ending up with a time-sensitive crisis that we as volunteers don’t have the tools to manage properly. We will definitely rethink that rule and ways to re-word it. We are always open to talking about the rules and what needs to change to make people feel comfortable posting here.
They’re not trying to be a crisis intervention space, but more of a maintenance space for people that aren’t that bad off yet.
You have to pick one as a small community, you can’t be both. Because the internet-community-available tools (listening empathetically to the problem, mainly) to help at one phase can potentially hurt at another, and there isn’t just one set of tools that always helps all people suffering different stages of difficulty, that can just be universally employed. Particularly at this young-community scale, where there just aren’t that many participants yet.
It’s regrettable, and I think this should probably be explained in the rules so they don’t come off as arbitrary, but it is the way it is.
If this was a private therapy space, where “patient conversations” were private, we would not have this problem.
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