Hello everyone! Let's get you started & help our community thrive! [META]

Let’s get started!

Firstly, welcome aboard! You are encouraged to help create activity as much as you can until our community is established. You can also help by posting a link to our community at New Communities

This is a safe place to discuss, vent, support, and share information about mental health, illness, and wellness.

Together, we can make this community great! Thank you for being here. Please actively participate in the discussions. Please show respect and empathy when replying to posts.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules

1-Posts promoting paid products and services of any kind are not allowed here.

If you are offering a free therapy service, then please contact the current moderators for a short interview.

2-All our content must be helpful and appropriate. Do not put vulnerable people at risk and mind the way you approach when need be.

3-Do not DM any of our members unless they specifically request it.

Likewise, if a person from here disturbs you, you are encouraged to report them to us(with evidence) and block them. They will be banned instantly.

4-Posts about suicide and/or dying are not allowed here. Your content may trigger & put others at risk, and we do NOT want that to happen. If there are any requests at all, then a suicidewatch community will be established immediately, and it will be linked here.

Partnered Communities:

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Jokes

To partner with our community and be included here, you are free to message the current moderators or comment on our pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

Welcome!

This is a safe place to discuss, vent, support, and share information about mental health, illness, and wellness.

Thank you for being here. We appreciate who you are today. Please show respect and empathy when making or replying to posts.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules

1-Posts promoting paid products and services of any kind are not allowed here.

2-All posts and comments must be helpful and supportive. Do not put vulnerable people at risk.

3-Do not DM or ask to speak privately to any of our members unless they specifically request it.

If a person from this community disturbs you in a comment, please report the comment. If you receive a DM you did not request, send a screenshot of the DM in a message to a moderator. This is a bannable offense.

4-Suicide, Self-Harm, Death-- Extended discussions are STRONGLY DISCOURAGED here. First, mods and community members are caring people, but not experts in crisis situations. Second, we want to avoid Lemmy becoming like many commercial social media platforms, where comments can snowball into counterproductive talk.

If you or someone you know needs more help than can be found here, please refer to the pinned resources.

If BRIEF mention of these topics is an important part of your post, please flag your post as NSFW and include a (trigger warning: suicide, self-harm, death, etc.)in the title so that other readers who may feel triggered can avoid it. Please also include a trigger warning on all comments mentioning these topics in a post that was not already tagged as such.