Hi @D1ng0 @Miss-wish and others reading,

I hope everyone is doing well this morning - just wanted to check in briefly about a few things that have come up here in the past week.

Firstly, a bit about how we moderate posts in the forums. Each day, our dedicated moderators and peer support workers engage with hundreds of posts, in addition to participating in conversations and crafting supportive responses. Despite our best efforts and intentions, it is possible for a word or detail to go unnoticed. This is what occurred last week with an otherwise supportive and positive post that included a brief reference to a self-harm method. 

As our team is small and our participants are many, we need your help to maintain the safe environment we have here on the forums. If you ever see posts that don't meet our community guidelines, please report it to the moderators so we can take a look at it. Please know that we also work behind the scenes to communicate with members over email, as well as online. While you may not see every action taken by our moderators on the public forums, rest assured that we are continually working to ensure the wellbeing of our community.

Secondly, we understand that reading about methods of self-harm has been upsetting to some members here in the thread.  However, I also can see from reading through all the posts that everyone here is acting in the best of intentions to provide support and connect with each other. Please give each other the benefit of the doubt when reading posts, and approach with the assumption that everyone is coming from a place of kindness. We have all experienced different, complex journeys to bring us where we are today but I hope we can come together on the desire to learn from and support one other. 

Thanks everyone for your time in reading, I look forward to seeing the valuable support discussions here continuing.

PS. I have edited some of the preceding posts in the thread so we can keep things on topic.