Depression Community

Hello Members -

We want to make this community a healthy, safe place to share what's going on in our lives - the good, the bad, the ugly and the in-between.

We have the red Trigger feature available to use if a post is extremely disturbing, contains talk of suicide, self harm, abuse or dark, dark thoughts.

We have this available to alert others that may be in a sensitive or fragile state. It will alert you NOT to read this post if you are particularly fragile on this day.

Members can also trigger their own posts by writing "Trigger" in the title and then write something innocuous in the first line and then leaving some spaces between the first line and the rest of the post.

Sometimes we do not have the man/women power to read each and every post in a timely manner, so if you come across a post that is triggering you can also use the "Report This" feature to alert staff.

We also understand members here do have depression and having these thoughts can be part of the illness. While we want to support as best as we can there are times when we do have to hide a post. If specific or graphic mentions/descriptions of suicide or self harm are discussed, we will have to hide these to protect our community members and those who happen to browse through.

We always follow through with an email to the member to let them know we hid the post. If there is response we will sometimes include it. So, it will disappear from this end, but we do follow up behind the scenes.

Hope this is helpful to keep our community a safe, comfortable, supportive place to land.

The WebMD Staff