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This is a safe space to be open, honest, and vulnerable about your deepest darkest secrets and personal problems, and to receive empathy, compassion and support. We’ll try to help as much as we can, and other people will need your shoulder to cry on, too.

Rules:

Kindness Always

No name-calling, trolling, ad-homs, personal attacks, strawmanning, or disrespectful or abusive behavior toward any other member.

No Bigotry

This should go without saying, but any homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, racism/sexism/any kind of -ism is not allowed. “It’s just a joke” is not an excuse. Any sort of needling to try to convince the mods or anyone else to accept such behavior, or enabling or defending such, is not acceptable either. Breaking this rule will result in a ban on first sight.

Oppressive Behavior Not Allowed

This includes, but is not limited to:

Slut-shaming
Victim-blaming
Suicide guilting
Suicide baiting
Proselytizing be it religious or otherwise

No Spam, Porn, Or Other Disruptive Content or Behavior

Please respect our community and don’t use it to post spam, porn, gore, or any other disruptive content.

On-topic only

This is a support sub about your personal issues. That means in your posts, you must make it clear why a particular issue is relevant to you as an individual. This is not the place for political soapboxing or rants about general issues, so talking about a political issue in general is not allowed, but talking about how it affects you is okay. E.g.:

Pro-lifers are evil/Pro-choicers are of the devil <-- NOT ALLOWED
I had to have an abortion and the protesters made me fear for my life/I went to protest at an abortion clinic and the counter-protesters made me fear for my life <-- ACCEPTABLE

See the difference?

NSFW confessions must have the [NSFW] tag in the title

No exceptions.

Emotional Support Only, No Monetary or Financial Solicitations Allowed

Given the nature of this sub, it’s only natural people are going to come and vent about their financial issues. Offering emotional support for such things is perfectly alright and, indeed, wanted. The trouble is when people ask or solicit for financial help, like posting GoFundMe links and the like. The mods don’t have the tools to be able to verify every post, and scammers are highly incentivized to break any method we apply, so for the good of the sub, any financial or monetary request, solicitation, or link will not be allowed.