Inappropriate content

We reserve the right to remove or edit any content that we feel is inappropriate. This inappropriate content includes:

• Types of food, names of foods, names of drinks.

• Height, weight or bmi calculations.

• Identifying information such as full names, location or any contact details (countries can be posted but cities are not acceptable. Important dates are also unacceptable).

• Names or locations of treatment centres, staff, professionals or other patients.

• Criticisms of other users, or encouraging dependency on other users.

• Encouraging people to gain or lose weight, or resist treatment.

• Graphic descriptions of self-harm or descriptions of behaviour that others might find distressing or disturbing.

• Detailed accounts of exercise.

• Drugs or medication by name, however it is ok to talk in terms of ‘being on antidepressants’.

• Information about other websites and material you have not written, e.g. song lyrics, poems.

• Spamming or advertising.

• Posts that give diagnoses, medical or treatment advice.

• References to films, television programmes, books, newspapers, magazines etc which we do not believe are appropriate for the message boards.

You may feel annoyed if your post is edited, but we ask service users to understand that we edit posts in order to protect vulnerable people. We understand that it is important for a sufferer to talk about a difficult day, and to explain what they might have been feeling, but certain information may be triggering for other users who may not be as far along in their recovery. Some content may also be edited as it might trigger competitive behaviour in some users, and we aim to protect our service users as much as we can. If your post is edited, try to think if there is a different way that you could explain your feelings. Most posts would not be edited if they were in a different context. Beat developed the message boards as a space which would allow people to gain comfort, support and understanding from empathic people, and we strive to achieve this.