Posted by Justherself54 on September 7, 2008, at 17:45:02
In reply to Re: What is the opinion of the community on this?, posted by Sigismund on September 7, 2008, at 16:56:59
I don't think any posts should be deleted. If we start making policy for one type of situation, where does it end? We don't think twice about responding to posters about medication issues, when none of us are doctors (to my knowledge). Do we form policy that we aren't allowed to do that as we aren't qualified?
Also, how would a policy of deleting any posts about committing suicide be enforced? To my knowledge, there isn't round the clock supervision of this website.
This is my opinion only but if I were actually going to end my life, I cant see myself posting on a mental health support forum unless I really didn't want to go through with it. I think the person was looking for some intervention and by the sounds of it was able to receive same.
Another thing, we also don't really know what went on behind the scenes in Admin. I think we're all assuming that absolutely no action was taken by Admin, but do we really know that as fact?
As far as I can tell we were just notified that she was OK. If I missed something, please let me know. I don't know how she was found, by whom and what information was given to the people to enable them to find her.
Sorry if this post is disjointed, but it's the best I can do during a med withdrawal.
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