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 encouragement, not as a substitute for professional care, nor a place for ethical/moral discussions. Only those who are seeking help may start threads in the recovery forums. Informational posts may be submitted to the recovery library for review to be posted.
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 in your posts, or in your user title
Diagnosing anyone's symptoms
Offering treatment or any kind to other members
Prescribing/promoting medications of any kind, including over the counter or herbal remedies
Discouraging someone from taking prescribed medications, using or seeking professional services, using hotlines or crisis lines.
Ethical and moral discussions are dealt with in other areas of the forum. These discussions will be removed from recovery or moved to another area if possible.
Any posts dealing with spiritual warfare will be removed. Insinuating that members are possessed or that their health issues are demonic or due to sin 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 links directing web-traffice to another site for this purpose is not appropriate and will be removed.
No polls are allowed.
Endorsement of certain topics - This is not allowed and staff will remove any posts which endorse any of the following topics.
