Club Name : DEPRESSIONISANILLNESSnotaweakness Description : a, a.man, a:link, a:visited{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;color:00ff00; font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:underline; font-style:normal} a:active, a:hover{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;color:00ffcc; font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none; font-style:normal;}td, table, tr, span, li, p, div, textarea, DIV {font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;color:000000; font-weight:normal; font-decoration:none; font-style:normal;background-color:transparent} td, li, p, div, textarea {font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;border-color:ffff66} a.navbar{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;font-size:10pt; font-weight:normal} a.navbar:link{color:00ff00;} a.navbar:active{color:00ffcc;} a.navbar:visited{color:c0c0c0;} a.navbar:hover{color:00ffcc;}a.searchlinkSmall{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;font-size:10pt; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal;} a.searchlinkSmall:link{color:00ff00} a.searchlinkSmall:active{color:00ffcc} a.searchlinkSmall:visited{color:c0c0c0} a.searchlinkSmall:hover{color:00ffcc}body{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;background-color:00cc33;background-image:url(http://www.pentaclerecords.net/dkaqua_bkgrnd.jpg); background-position:center; background-repeat:repeat; background-attachment:fixed;}.nametext{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;font-size:12pt;color:00ff00; font-weight:none;}.blacktext10{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;font-size:10pt; color:000000; font-weight:normal;}.blacktext12{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;font-size:10pt; color:00ff99; font-weight:normal;}.btext, .itext, .text{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;font-size:10pt; color:00ff99; font-weight:none;}.orangetext15{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;font-size:10pt; color:00ff99; font-weight:none;}.lightbluetext8{font-family:arial, arial, times new roman;font-size:10pt; color:00ff99; font-weight:none;}.tmz_imp{font-family:arial;color:000000;font-weight:bold}a img{border-color:00cc00; border-width:0px;border-style:solid;filter:Alpha(Opacity=100)}a:hover img{border-color:00ffcc; border-width:1px;border-style:solid;filter:none}body{scrollbar-arrow-color:000000;scrollbar-Track-Color:ccc999;scrollbar-Highlight-Color:ffff00;scrollbar-basecolor:fff000;scrollbar-Face-Color:0fff00;scrollbar-Shadow-Color:C0C0C0;scrollbar-DarkShadow-Color:000000} REMEMBER: IF YOU ARE IN SERIOUS CRISIS, PLEASE DIAL 911. Wow... maybe what we need around here is a language translator... You have a snowball's chance in Hell of being approved with your profile set to "private." OK? Is that clear enough? GOOD - now fuck off. QUIT wasting your time and ours. NO ONE is EVER "just getting into" this group blindly, OK? So, quit your childish bullshit, already. Disrupters will be banned. Depending upon your infraction, if it’s determined to be harassment of this forum’s disabled individuals, you WILL BE reported. This is a SERIOUS discussion group, and everyone is expected to behave in a civil manner. LEGAL LIABILITY DISCLAIMER BY USING THIS GROUP, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ ITS RULES, THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THEM, AND THAT YOU WILL ABIDE BY THEM WHILE PARTICIPATING HERE - INCLUDING DURING ANY AND ALL INTERACTION WITH ITS OTHER MEMBERS. THIS INCLUDES MAINTAINING RESPECT FOR OTHER GROUP MEMBERS, WITHIN EMAIL, INSTANT MESSAGING AND ANY OTHER FORM OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION. THIS CONCEPT PERTAINS TO THIS GROUP, AS WELL AS TO ITS SATELLITE GROUPS. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT - ALTHOUGH WE DO, IN FACT, HAVE PROFESSIONALS WITHIN OUR MEMBERSHIP - THIS GROUP - AND ITS SATELLITES - ARE INTENDED AS INTERNET COMMUNITY SUPPORT GROUPS, AND THAT THEY ARE NOT INTENDED AS SUBSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT, NOR ARE THEY INTENDED AS ALTERNATIVES TO SUICIDE OR OTHER EMERGENCY HOT LINES, IF YOU’RE IN SERIOUS CRISIS. SCROLLING DOWN BEYOND THIS POINT SHALL BE CONSIDERED THE EQUIVALENT OF YOUR ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE, EACH AND EVERY TIME THAT YOU VISIT HERE, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS HEREIN. IF YOU DELIBERATELY OR OTHERWISE CIRCUMVENT THIS PAGE TO ACCESS THE BOARDS OR ANY OTHER FEATURES OF THIS GROUP, YOU AGREE THAT IT IS STILL TO BE CONSTRUED THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE MEMBERSHIP TERMS AND AGREE TO ABIDE BY THEM. Some topics contain adult content/ references/ innuendoes which may be inappropriate for non-adult and other sensitive readers PLEASE review the Group Rules before APPLYING and before POSTING. Thanks... Depression Is An Illness, Not A Weakness satellite groups: You need to be a KNOWN, ACTIVE member of the Depression Group BEFORE being considered for joining the satellite groups. This is for the PROTECTION OF OUR MEMBERS - just like the "entrance requirements" for the main group, and the rules of the groups. The same standards of behavioral interaction are expected of those using the satellite groups, as those which apply to this group - with the notable exception of more elaborate and open discussion of the individual subjects which each of those groups are specifically geared to accommodate. DESPITE THE FACT that the satellite groups have their own LISTED moderators, EVERY MODERATOR of this main group is a moderator of the satellite groups. If you are banned from one of the groups, you are automatically banned from all of them. This is a Mental Health group, focusing on the support and rehabilitation of those who suffer any form of clinical-level depressive illness. JOINING You need to have a convincing REAL and obviously interacting profile, and we need to be able to see it in order to approve you. If you have it set to "private," have it "pimped" to the point that all of your info is off to one side and there is no scrollbar to get there, if it’s something which was made in five minutes and your only friend is Tom - we’ll outright DENY it. While I both understand and respect that you may have any number of reasons why you feel it's necessary to have your profile set to "private" (I've done it myself, many times) you should be able to understand and respect that my primary function is to protect the group's membership. NO means NO. When I go to do approvals, if your profile is STILL in one or more of those conditions, you’ll be DENIED and BLOCKED. If your profile is "private" due to your age, you need to write to me or one of the senior moderators to discuss with us how to join. I WON'T deny you membership under these circumstances - UNLESS you keep sending it over and over again without doing what I just said. RULES NEW We're ALL hurting here. The FIRST TIME we catch you being insensitive to the feelings of other members here, you're OUT. NO "excuses," NO "exceptions," NO coming back. END OF STORY. Overall? If you wouldn’t want it done to, said to, or written about YOU, then don’t post it about others. By FAR, the fastest way to be thrown out is by violating someone else’s human rights - the violation of their dignity. If you remember and follow the basic "do unto others" tenet, then you don’t have to be worried about "all of the rules" - because that is the basic underlying principle which every one of them is based upon. If a topic which you posted gets deleted and you're NOT banned at the same time, it's a good idea to consider that action a silent warning. There WON'T BE any second warnings. This is a safe haven for... people suffering with depression who are sick of being told to "snap out of it" discussing ways we’ve helped ourselves - coping strategies we would like to share with others us to be able to reveal our darkest views and symptoms, without the typical outside world’s ignorance and without undue judgment those who share this common bond - depression - where we can talk freely and openly (simply keeping in mind to try and avoid saying or posting anything which will offend other members here) - and where no one suffers alone SOME EXAMPLES OF WAYS TO GET THROWN OUT FOR GOOD: advertise - this includes posting LINKS to ANYWHERE, recommending OTHER SITES - and anything along those lines - without FIRST getting permission to do so, directly from the Group Leader or a Senior Moderator. If you are using code - hypertext referencing AT ALL within your post, then you ARE LINKING. If you use ANY advanced coding - i.e. code other than basic html - you’ll be thrown out for good for the first instance of using it. ACCEPTABLE LINKING - you may post pictures, graphics, and videos - as long as the videos DO NOT autostart (in other words, you give other members the option whether or not to watch them). Many members can offer helpful "outside" links, and that’s a good thing - but you need to run them by us before posting them. ANY linking outside of the group, without first obtaining approval and permission from either myself or a senior mod will get you banned. As in whatever you type and then post, the same group rules apply as to content, for pictures and videos, etc. Be sensible about what you post, so that it doesn’t offend other members. SOME examples of advertising and misuse of the group are: ..... promote your band, other business, other websites, other groups, etc - without prior permission for EACH instance ..... SPAM of ANY sort ..... showing off your body and/ or promoting your web cam ..... posting "surveys" or "polls" of ANY type - especially those which ask members to self-diagnose, or even worse - to diagnose other members libeling (written slander) to hurt people blaming the group - or any other member - for your suicidal feelings, or any of your other personal problems and/ or feelings claim you are a therapist and have all the answers (unless you are one - and even then, you DON’T have all the answers) preaching to save us all - this includes saying or implying that YOUR particular belief system is "the solution" for depression using ANY type of language which disparages or perpetuates differentiation, whether on the basis of religion, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, etc. lying about your age or any other fact which would have caused us to refuse your admittance into the group, your admittance to using the MySpace service, or any other similar fraud crying wolf - which includes, but isn’t limited to: ..... making a post that you’re going to kill yourself, then refusing to respond to anyone at all ..... complaining over and over again - and never accepting a bit of advice or help from anyone here who tries to help you posting about suicide, cutting, any other self-injurious behavior, or the intent to harm others - we have separate satellite groups as an outlet for discussing these more specific aspects of depressive illnesses’ symptomatology, without upsetting others in the main group who may not experience and understand said symptoms, and you are more than welcome to join and utilize them. posting ANY descriptions about ANY mistreatment of animals/ other living things. This is HIGHLY triggering to some of us. Many of us have companion animals and/ or pets, and they are a very important part of our lives harassing any other member of the group by ANY means - including with emails CONFLICT OF INTEREST - being involved with anyone or anything (etc.) which degrades this group or any of its members to ANY extent after someone has been banned, and the thread remains, adding posts to the thread which agree with anything which the banned person said in that thread (i.e. in nature, deliberately mocking and challenging the group administrators’ decision - just by doing that). This includes making posts "for" someone who has been banned, asking for details about why someone was banned, or any other such behavior posting - or emailing the moderators - negativity about how the group is administrated ANY other behavior or language or other activity or reason which the Group Leader or any of the Moderators deem to be, at their discretion, inappropriate for this group Starting trouble with anyone from the group after you’ve been thrown out is a good way to get yourself reported not only to MySpace, but also to the police and even the courts - depending upon what you do and say. If you have a problem with these rules, resign or don’t join. This is a serious SUPPORT GROUP, focusing its dialogue around a very real, very serious, and all-too-often debilitating illness. Yes, we can go "off topic" (within reason) and there’s nothing wrong with having a good laugh. It’s NOT OK to do it at the expense of others’ feelings, though. We do important work and support here. As Snooky once so eloquently put it, "this is NOT your AOL chat room." If you’re not here for advice or healing, you will be thrown out. Please don’t waste our time. I don’t tolerate people being rude - I’ll just ban you. If that happens, then generally you have done something REALLY bad, so usually there are no second chances, no warnings. You should already KNOW what is and isn’t acceptable behavior. Joining this group is like signing a contract - you give up your rights to FREEDOM OF SPEECH in here if it involves hurting people. This is our forum! To give this a little perspective, the right to Freedom of Speech - as set forth in the commonly-called "Bill of Rights" section of the US Constitution - does NOT afford you the right to yell "FIRE" in a crowded cinema.