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.
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.
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.
Well what were you expecting when you choose “mentalhealth” as the community’s name? People who are that bad will show up.