sophiebunny,

I completely disagree with you. If a person is IP and capable of posting within the community guidelines, then they should be allowed to.

I've had 3 psych hospitalizations, in the top psych hespital in my province and in all 3 cases we were allowed to access the internet, either via a shared computer on the ward, or on our own laptops if we brought them.

The psychiatrists who treated me when I was IP, really stressed the importance of building and maintaining a support system so that it would be available for us on discharge. I explained to my assigned psychiatrist that most of my support was from on-line communities, here and 3 others that I interact with daily. Posting in these communities, helped me stay connected. I was also given evening passes so that I could attend AA meetings in the community. Again the thinking was needing to build community support.

And for some members PC may be their only source of support, it seems against the philosophy of PC to deter them from posting


The community support team can deal with any inappropriate posting, just as we deal with other inappropriate posting.

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