COMMENT RULES
This space is for survivors, Lighthouses, and anyone trying to make sense of PTSD. You’re welcome to be raw and honest here. A few non-negotiables:
1. Bring your full voice, not your fists.
Swearing is fine. Strong opinions are fine. Personal attacks, dog-piling, threats, or name-calling at another person are not. If you come in swinging at people, your comment disappears.
2. No hate speech. Zero.
No slurs, no dehumanizing language, no “us vs. them” rants about any group (race, gender, politics, religion, sexuality, profession, etc.). You can vent about your experience; you don’t get to trash entire groups of humans.
3. Talk about ideas, not targets.
It’s OK to say, “This approach failed me,” or “This system feels broken.”
It’s not OK to aim your rage at a specific therapist, clinic, agency, unit, command, or person by name. No doxxing, no outing, no revenge posts.
4. Protect privacy—yours and everyone else’s.
Don’t post phone numbers, addresses, emails, or identifying details about other people. Don’t tell someone else’s trauma story without their permission.
5. No trauma Olympics.
This isn’t a contest for whose pain is “real.” If someone shares that their partner beat them, or they lost a friend, or they’re wrecked from childhood, their story stands. You don’t get to reply with “that’s nothing, I had it worse” or any version of “you don’t have real trauma, I do.” We’re here to share experiences, not score points.
6. Sensitive / personal questions? Email, don’t comment.
If there’s something you want to ask or share that shouldn’t live in public, email me at the address in the footer instead of dropping it in the comments.
7. My house, my call.
I reserve the right to delete comments or block users who ignore these rules or trash the atmosphere here. If that happens, this page is your notice—it’s not a debate.
8. This is not an emergency room.
If you’re on the edge of hurting yourself or someone else, the comments are not where you go. Call 988 (in the U.S.) or your local crisis line, or use whatever emergency resources you have. Then, if you want to talk after the smoke clears, we can do that.