Recovery Guidelines
The site wide rules give the outline for what is and what is not acceptable in the Recovery, Mental Health, and Physical Health forums. These Forum-specific guidelines clarify those rules specifically for this area of the site.
Recovery is a place for member peer support and advice, not as a substitute for professional care, nor a place for ethical/moral discussions.
Recovery Staff feel very strongly that members need to seek out real life licensed professional services and local pastoral care in addition to asking for support and advice here.
These things are considered off topic and will not be allowed in the Recovery forums:
- Promoting yourself as an expert
- Diagnosing anyone's symptoms
- Offering treatment of any kind to other members
- Prescribing/promoting medications of any kind, including over the counter remedies
- Discouraging someone from taking prescribed medications, using or seeking professional services, using hotlines or crisis lines.
- Ethical and moral discussions. Other areas of Christian Forums deal with these topics.
- Any posts dealing with spiritual warfare will be removed. Insinuating that members are possessed or that their health issues are demonic is not permitted. This includes the devil is the whole problem. Linking to sites offline that address spiritual warfare are not permitted as well.
- Asking or requesting that members engage in research topics or volunteer as research subjects, or directing web-traffic to another site for this purpose is not acceptable.
Endorsement of certain topics - This is not allowed and staff will remove any posts which endorse any of the following topics.
- abortion
- alcohol and/or drug abuse
- extramarital or premarital sexual activity
- gambling
- harmful and/or hurtful behaviors of any nature
- homosexuality
- polygamy
- transsexuality
- violence
- Over the counter remedies can interact with prescription medications. Because of that, do not recommend what someone should take, including alternative medications. Limit discussion to your experience with a medication.
- Cannabis (Marijuana) is an illegal drug with much controversy, as it is legal in some areas for medical purposes only. If you live in an area where it is legal, you may find more information on it from your physician. Discussion to promote it as an alternative drug not permitted in the recovery area as this should be addressed with your physician.
The Recovery Team Staff will remove posts or threads that we think could be harmful in any way to any member or group of members, Even if the post or thread might not be intentionally harmful.
The Recovery Team Staff will edit or remove posts that we see as being a trigger for someone who is trying to stop doing some behavior. For example, a post that "argues a member should do x, y or z anyways because it doesn't matter" or "I'm just going to drink myself sick."
Because of the risk of triggering suicidal thoughts in others, we remove threats and/or endorsement of suicide. This includes posting that another member others know have killed him/herself. If you are having thoughts about suicide but have no immediate plans or intentions your posts may be able to show. Make sure to **Trigger Warn** the top of your post. If you are having serious issues, log off now and contact 800-SUICIDE in the US, www.imalive.org online, or www.befrienders.org for international crisis centers (found in the upper right hand corner of their site).
We want to allow you to have support from others but we must be careful not to have posts that might trigger others to follow suit. Staff will err on the side of safety and caution for other members in these situations. Please utilize local professional services such as calling 911, going to the emergency room or to a local medical clinic.
When Staff remove these suicidal posts or self harm posts of any threat or description from view we are encouraging the members to seek professional services in their local area and provide phone numbers to local crisis lines if available. Christian Forums is NOT a crisis center, nor are the Recovery Team members trained in Suicidal Intervention. Members continuing to post outside these guidelines may be banned temporarily to seek help offline.
Because of the risk of triggering suicidal thoughts in others, we remove threats and/or endorsement of suicide. This includes posting that another member others know have killed him/herself. If you are having thoughts about suicide but have no immediate plans or intentions your posts may be able to show. Make sure to **Trigger Warn** the top of your post. If you are having serious issues, log off now and contact 800-SUICIDE in the US, www.imalive.org online, or www.befrienders.org for international crisis centers (found in the upper right hand corner of their site).
We want to allow you to have support from others but we must be careful not to have posts that might trigger others to follow suit. Staff will err on the side of safety and caution for other members in these situations. Please utilize local professional services such as calling 911, going to the emergency room or to a local medical clinic.
When Staff remove these suicidal posts or self harm posts of any threat or description from view we are encouraging the members to seek professional services in their local area and provide phone numbers to local crisis lines if available. Christian Forums is NOT a crisis center, nor are the Recovery Team members trained in Suicidal Intervention. Members continuing to post outside these guidelines may be banned temporarily to seek help offline.
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