What to Post/What not to Post in the ED Board
Welcome to
RYL's Eating Issues Forum. Here you can find all of the help and support you need to help with your Eating Issues, or to help someone you know who may be suffering from one. The members are a lovely lot, and will gladly answer any of your questions surrounding EDs, from Anorexia to Compulsive Over Eating.
Before you start posting, why not take a look at "
The ED Board Introduce Themselves" thread, to get to know us and introduce yourself? Also, pop into
Esther's Queendom, for a chat, to relax and to have some fun. I'd also recommend that you take a look at our
Labelling Guidelines.
What to Post:- Any questions you may have surrounding EDs
- Posts asking for support relating to your eating disorder, and how to fight it
- Recovery Tips, ideas that have worked for you, discussion of inpatient treatment, therapy or other methods of treatment that could help other people.
- Although diet tips are not allowed, advice on how to eat healthily is permitted
- First Aid posts specifically relating to Eating Disorders are allowed, but you would be well advised to contact a First Aid advisor, or post in the First Aid Forum.
- Recovery stories
- Discussions of the negative side-affects of diet pills, laxatives or other weight-loss "medications", along with threads asking for advice on how to stop taking them.
- Eating Disorder programmes and documentaries can be discussed, but only once they have been broadcast on TV, and there must not be any information about when the programme can be watched again.
What not to Post:- Anything glamourising/encouraging Eating Disorders
- Posts asking for advice on how to starve/purge effectively, or any other form of tipsharing
- Threads asking for advice on where to purcahse diet pills/laxatives, mentioning of brand name pills or discussion of which are the best ones to use
- Anything from, or links to "Pro-ED" sites, triggering links or "thinspiration" of any form
- Dieting or exercise tips
- Although you may discuss other forms of self-harm, posts specifically asking for help about non-ED subjects would be better suited to their respective forums. In the same way, please keep all rant-style posts to the Ranting and Venting forum.
- Posts must not be made giving details about an upcoming Eating Disorder programme, when it is to be broadcast/repeated or how it can be watched online.
- Any form of numbers, or 'ED stats' such as weight, BMI, number of days fasted.
- Food lists.
- The terms 'ana' and 'mia' also must not be posted, due to their pro nature.
Finally, I would like to draw your attention to the board description:
"A recovery forum for the support and discussion of Eating Disorders. "
Although we will not try to force anyone to recover here, recovery should and will be encouraged at all times.
If you have any questions, or if you see something on the board which you feel either breaks the
RYL Rules of Posting, or doesn't fit these guidelines, please
contact a forum moderator, or use the "Report" button.
Thanks :)