Community Info
Community InformationBelow is information about the "Abuse Survivors" community on LiveJournal. To join this community, click here. You may leave the community at any time.
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| User: | abusesurvivor (36436) You are not the only one. You're not alone.
And you deserve some support. |
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| Name: | Abuse Survivors | |
| About: | This is a place where all survivors of all kinds of abuse can share and heal. This community is open to anyone who wishes to join for support and friendship, or to help others still dealing with abuse. Please understand that stories of abuse can be triggering to some members. We attempt to keep this community safe, and the rules are in place for a reason. Please do not try to get around them. It is very self defeating and can result in negative consequences for the other members. Emergency Resources Community Rules Becoming a Member Contacting a Moderator EMERGENCY RESOURCES: U.S. Hotlines (24/7) The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) Hopeline: 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) Girls and Boys Town Website Hotline: 1-800-448-3000 (TDD 1-800-448-1833) If you're not in the U.S., or would like other resources: Befrienders.org (international site with links to hotlines for a variety of topics) Suicide Prevention Lifeline (24 hour suicide prevention hotline) Hopeline (24 hour suicide prevention hotline) Girls And Boys Town (Referral hotlines for a host of issues, from abuse to suicidal thoughts to depression) http://www.samaritans.org/ (for the U.K. and Ireland) Reading resources: If you are thinking about suicide, please read this first Posting 1. Any post which contains violent, sexual, physical, or explicit descriptions of abuse must use the lj-cut tag. Any post that may be considered disturbing and triggering for any other reason, should also be put under the lj-cut tag. Any explicit post which fails to use the lj-cut this will be rejected from the moderator's queue. When in doubt, please put it under an lj-cut. How to create an "LJ-cut": NOTE: When implementing the below LJ-cut instructions, delete the extra space following each "<" symbol; for illustrative purposes here on the ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} abusesurvivor profile page, a space has been manually inserted to avoid the above LiveJournal tags from actually being implemented here within this profile page.(Copied from LiveJournal FAQ, per this link) < lj-cut> ... < /lj-cut> This can be used in a journal entry to hide all or part of an entry. When the entry appears in your journal or on someone's Friends page, everything after an < lj-cut> tag and before a closing < /lj-cut> tag will be replaced by a link to the Read Comments page. The Read Comments page always displays the entire entry and any comments made on it. When the < lj-cut> is closed with < /lj-cut>, any text placed after the closing < /lj-cut> tag will also display on the journal, instead of just on the Read Comments page. By default, the link will say "Read more...", but if you want it to say something else like "Under LJ-cut for possible triggering", you can write the tag as < lj-cut text="Under LJ-cut for possible triggering"> If you wish to see your entry with the < lj-cut> after you have updated the journal, you will have to view the journal via the regular journal view, not entry view. If you go to "view entry," you will see the entry as it appears after clicking on the < lj-cut>. Additionally, the "preview entry" link will also take you to a view of your entry as it appears after you have clicked on the < lj-cut>. You will not be able to view your < lj-cut> when previewing your entry. Again: When in doubt, please put it under an lj-cut. 2. Be respectful. Try to avoid any remarks that may be viewed as incendiary. This is a community for support, not debate. If in the course of telling your story or bringing something up you have to bring up something controversial, that's fine, but try to be as respectful as you can to the idea that others may hold different views. Also, don't troll or flame. You will be banned. Immediately. No questions asked. 3. Stay on topic. Any posts that stray from topic will not be approved without obtaining moderator consent before you submit the post. If you'd like to advertise another community, for instance, please ask for approval and tell us about the community here. Anything else that would be off-topic should be approached in a similar way. To potential new members (anyone who wants to join): Each new member is briefly assessed by the first available moderator-maintainer and the process may take a while depending on our individual schedules: we are not paid nor experienced professionals, we are not here to provide professional mental health advice. We do this for free, voluntarily, and do so purely on the basis of personal commitment and ability which may vary on a day-by-day basis. We attempt to maintain a safe community for all survivors who share here and we approve or reject new members based on often very little available information and it is necessarily a highly subjective process. If you have been rejected, possible reasons include, but are not limited to: 1. Suspected troll, flamer, or other potential risk of incivility to the community. 2. Have no clear reason why someone is joining. 3. Not enough available information (on the user profile or insufficient public entries) to assess anything. 4. Involvement or suspected involvement in certain online movements (pro-SI, pro-ana). 5. Any other reason that may come up at the time of consideration. If you feel you have been rejected in error, you may contact us here. Your comment will be screened to assure anonymity. PLEASE DO NOT contact moderators or maintainers directly (via comments to their blogs, emails, or other) before first trying the above link. There is no guarantee that we will respond in a timely fashion; please be patient. If you are rejected again, there are easily hundreds of other abuse-related communities on LJ, many of which are not moderated, maintained, and/or allow public entries and comments. These communities may be general in nature, or focused on specific dynamics, demographics, or abuse concerns as well. Each community is moderated and maintained independently and sets their own policies and guidelines, if any. PLEASE NOTE: If you have comments or concerns about anything regarding this community; or have questions for any of the moderators, please comment here. | |
| Interests: | 41: abuse, abuse survivor, abuse survivors, acceptance, acquaintance rape, anxiety, battered, child abuse, child molestation, child sexual abuse, compassion, date rape, depression, emotional abuse, healing, hope, incest, manipulation, mental abuse, molestation, panic, physical abuse, positivity, post-traumatic stress disorder, prevention, rape, recovery, scars, sex, sexual abuse, sexual abuse survivor, sexual abuse survivors, social anxiety, strength, support, survivor, survivors, trauma, understanding, victim, victims | |
| Maintainers: | 2: quincunx, yogurtrifle | |
| Members: | 951: View Members. | |
| Account type: | Basic Account | |
