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.
I briefly tried creating a comm specifically for this that I titled “Void Screaming” so that you could go let it out and keep it out of the other subs and ideally not even follow that sub. Kind of like a specialized mental health grease trap. People were worried it was unhealthy but tbh ime working in mental health you gotta let it out, it’s just about making sure you do it in the appropriate places and appropriate ways then go back to the positivity once the ick is out. But I get that that’s a pretty complex topic for laypeople.