CHAT ROOM RULES/GUIDELINES

Body Image Betrayal & Related Issues:

Body Image Betrayal & Related Issues Logo:Designed By: Amy Medina: something-fishy.org

A Voice In The Darkness

CHAT RULES AND GUIDELINES

CAUTION/DISCLAIMER

One of the greatest features of the internet is its capacity to link single individuals to a chorus of other people who share their same issues and concerns. In doing so, there is also a danger of revealing information to those who are not healthy resources and who can be dangerous. Please use common sense when using ANY chat room or email. You would not share your full name and address with a stranger you just met on the street, so why would you consider doing the same to someone you just met in a chat room?

The BIBRI Website is happy to participate in linking you to chat programs around the internet but we bear no responsibility for the reliability of these programs or the safety of the people you meet there. Please use your own sense of inner wisdom and judgment in sharing and relating any personal information.

THE SOMETHING-FISHY CHAT ROOMS FOR EATING DISORDERS

WHAT THESE ROOMS ARE:

These rooms are for support of those dealing with Eating Disorders and those who are friends and family of those with an Eating Disorder
They provide 24 hour access for 6 rooms.
They provide gavel monitors for the safety of those in the rooms. These gavels help insure that basic rules and guidelines are followed
They allow for monitored chats for those suffering with Abuse issues and Eating Disorders. These special chat times are between 9:00 - 10:00PM EST and are hosted by myself, BIBRI.
They also allow for monitored chats for those who participate in FAA (Food Addicts Anonymous). These chats are held in the Overeating Chat Rooms.
They provide scheduled chats with some of the leading experts in the Eating Disorder field as well as those who have struggled and overcome their own eating Disorders

WHAT THESE ROOMS ARE NOT:

These chat rooms are NOT for crisis intervention. If you are in an immediate medical emergency or are feeling actively suicidal, PLEASE disconnect from the internet and call 911 or your therapist and/or local mental health crisis service.
The rooms are NOT a place to come for information for research projects, school reports, or the like.
The rooms are NOT to be used for unhealthy and unsupportive behaviors, such as exchanging or sharing diet tips and methods of weight loss/purging.
These rooms are NOT a place to come to be hostile or openly abusive to other people. They are an open forum but DO have rules and guidelines that we ask that everyone follow.

BASIC RULES:

Weight loss tips are not permitted
No numbers/weights can be brought into the chat rooms. This is for the safety of everyone involved. If you have questions as to the validity of this rule, or any exceptions therein, please email or ask one of the gavels. They will be happy to help.
Vulgar language and abusive behavior is not tolerated here
Confidentiality is important. Please respect those in the room with you and do not share personal information around the rooms and or web. This is especially asked of all those that participate in the Abuse/Eating Disorder chat rooms.

While Eating Disorders and Abuse issues can get easily enmeshed with each other, it is important for every person in a chat room to respect each others rights and safety. If you are an abuse survivor who suffers from MPD/DID and who struggles with Ritual Abuse, we ask that you encourage those altars to use the Abuse Room when they are struggling with those memories/programming. EVERYONE is welcome here, but the safety of the entire room has to be protected. If you are looking for specific chat rooms that can help with SRA issues, I recommend trying TRANSFORMATION'S Chat Rooms. I have worked with them in the past and know the people who run some of these rooms to be survivors themselves and to be wonderful people.

Personal Note:

I am extremely thankful to all those who utilize the chat rooms and to Something-Fishy for allowing me to be a part of these rooms since their inception. Trust is a valuable gift and I treasure it more than any other.

TO USE THE ROOMS:

To go to the Complete Rules and Regulations and to Log-In to the Something-Fishy Chat rooms, press here.