Originally Posted by
Scumbelina
This is what I always thought. If I needed to talk about wanting to SH or already have then it would probably be graphic & triggering to other members & I wouldn't post in SI discussion because I thought it wasn't supposed to be that serious/triggering, just discussion on beating urges/talking to family about it/people asking questions/cover up tips etc etc & then serious is like - "I've had a really pants day & really want to cut & want to make it bad etc" (Am I mistaken?
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My take on it would be self injury discussion is for all posts relating to self harm as the board description states - Covers all areas of self injury. This forum includes advice, information, recovery and support - so what you have posted above to my mind would all fit in Self Injury. Some posts in here will be triggering and no where does it say threads in SID should not be triggering in the same way that the ED board is for all things ED.
I don't think that serious should become a suicide board but I do think the room description is important - For threads that may be triggering or graphic which do not fit in any other forum. So if it's a thread relating to self injury then the SI board should be used, ED posts should go in the ED board, threads related to mental health should go there i.e. i'm being admitted etc. That leaves quite a narrow spectrum of posts that would fit in serious but that's how it should be.
I'm one of those who think serious should barely be posted in and thats in part because I see it as a board for people in utter despair where maybe hospital is the solution and to think of people being in that frame of mind long term makes me sad.
I also think if Serious was used as a last resort then the other boards would have more serious threads posted in them and that may in turn mean that the boards may feel like they are less cotton wooled then they are currently. In part because when I first joined Serious wasn't a particularly active board and thus threads that covered triggering topics were spread across the relevant forum