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Deleted post about self harm

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RustyPaperclips · 12/10/2017 00:37

Hi MNHQ, a poster who was clearly in distress posted this evening about feeling an overwhelming need to self harm following a crisis. A few people (including myself) posted advice but the thread was deleted as you say that threads like that particular one are not allowed.

There was one post which was justifiably deleted as it was advising how to self harm, but I do not understand the need to delete a whole thread posted in Mental Health from someone who is clearly struggling and looking for support to prevent self harm.

I appreciate pointing them to help e.g. Samaritan’s, but isn’t the point of a forum like this to help and support?

I appreciate that this will probably be deleted for being a TAAT

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AmyGMumsnet · 12/10/2017 14:20

Hello everyone, thanks for raising these points.

Mumsnet has its own internal policy regarding threads like these, which came about following discussions with the Mumsnet community and which was developed following consultation with MIND and the Samaritans. We found that a lot of posters found these threads very upsetting and in some cases came away with a sense of responsibility towards the OP.

As with all posts, we can never be sure if the poster is real and in danger, real but crying out for help or a troll – what we do know is that we can't be responsible for them coming to harm, and that they need to seek RL help and support (we provide links to various places where they can find this, if we do remove a thread).

We also can't allow others to potentially be upset by these threads or for a thread on Mumsnet to perhaps be considered as 'advice' on this subject.

We hope this explains our position wrt threads like this; if you have any more questions you're welcome to post again on here or to mail us on [email protected]

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