Let's help people find alternatives to suicide

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Aimed at people living with illness, life events, stress and those in minority groups.This page considers the social context of illness and suicide.

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Disclaimer: All information, data and material contained, presented, or provided on Kauri Place is for educational purposes only. It is not to be construed or intended as providing medical or legal advice. Decisions you make about your family's healthcare are important and should be made in consultation with a competent and registered medical professional. There is no claim being made of competence beyond qualifications held. Any views expressed here-in are not necessarily those held by Kauri Place.
This content/media/page/website is purely for informational purposes only. The information is not intended to serve as any diagnostic tool, medical treatment, counseling, psychological service, advice of any kind, psychotherapy, or treatment, and should not be a substitute for any such services. Seek consultation with a professional for any diagnosis, advice, and/or treatment.
This page is here to provide support around all factors which contribute to suicide not just mental illness. Please inbox or comment on a status if you would like a topic for support or discussion.The group is supportive and experienced and will not judge you.
The page is run by a professionally qualified person but advise that if you are in need of ongoing support to contact a general practitioner / family doctor who is best to advise you on treatment.
There are links to crisis supports and charities posted at regular intervals for specialist support.

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Liking of comments: Comments posted on this page are "liked" as an acknowledgement of contribution.

Interactions
There is no liability taken for any interactions which may arise between users of this page with
a) other users of this page
b) pages which have been liked or shared by this page
c) from posts shared from this page by other pages.

It is strongly advised that people do not accept friend requests from people they do not know or cannot reasonably meet in real life.
If you receive messages of a nature that you are not happy with it is advised that you do not reply. We are not able to intervene and advise that you
a) contact Facebook or
b) the law enforcement authorities in your country.
Please read this article as a reminder of the dangers https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/12/15/woman-killed-by-man-she-met-through-facebook/

http://www.bphope.com/Item.aspx/1260

We take no responsibility for pact formation or messages you may receive. As stated above anyone who attempts to message you needs to be reported. This page will however provide support if you become distressed by someone bullying you and post reminders for others on how to deal with these people.

We encourage and empower people to support each other on the page at all times. We do not encourage members to Priavte message (interact) with each other / friend each other on Facebook. There are a number of reasons for this:
1. One can never be sure of whom they are interacting with as people may use fake names. Some are genuine and others are not.
2. One does not know who is trained in mental health and it may be detrimental to their health if they take advice from others.
3. A persom giving a lot of support to others may not be caring for themselves. Self care is their priority and we should not encourage practices that would affect this.
4. People who are not in a safe place and interact with each other off the page may influence each other negatively (e.g. suicide pacts, pro - eating disorder talk etc.).
5. Interactions cannot moderate interactions off the page so therefore we cannot protect people if they communicate in such a setting.


Medication
We advise people to take medication as prescribed by a medical professional / pharmacist (chemist). Advise from any other person may not be in your best interests. Only take advise from someone who is caring for you in a professional relationship and is currently registered to prescribe / practise.

Crisis Support
We do not currently have the facilities to provide crisis support. Please seek support from the emergency services and or a registered and established helpline in your country. If you are living away from your home country please refer to your embassy for recommendations if you are unsure. The services which this page recommends are well established and registered. Persons who post suicidal content or self harm content with reference to themselves or directed at individuals will be provided with a list of suicide hotlines. This page is here to discuss the risk factors around suicide (such can reduce the peoples burden preventing crisis), bring awareness to them and this public health issue. This can be done in a supportive manner but we will not provide crisis support on the page. The reason for this is such behavior can become normalized and create contagion.

Missing Persons

As we reach out to people all over the world we cannot share statuses regarding missing persons.

Charity Events

Anyone raising funds for the cause of suicide prevention (or indeed any other cause) can post under the posts by others section. If our investigations lead us to find that these causes are fake we will hide and if necessary report to the law enforcement and Facebook.

Page Shares
We are happy share other pages we may do this once per week on a status as we grow. Share will stay up for at least 24 hours.

Disability
We will post and requested topics for discussion or support in the speak of the person requesting. If you wish any typing or spelling errors to be corrected please state. We thank you for your understanding.

This page will take guidance from the World Health Organizations recommendations on suicide prevention, the Samaritans UK and Suicide Prevention Australia for media reporting on suicide and the British Psychological Society in terms of ethics and codes of practice.

Interventions
This page will post interventions to reduce any possible effects of contagion and encourage people to take regular breaks from the internet in order to maintain their mental well being and connect with others in real life. This is particularly the case if you are in crisis.

Abuse of admin
This page operates a zero tolerance policy.

Inappropriate, unkind and in proper conduct from followers. We will provide one warning by commenting back to you (this page does not inbox to individuals accounts unless requests for support are made through the message tab on the page, under no circumstances will your wall (wall of personal accounts) be written on by this page) and on the second occasion you may be banned. We ask that you consider if you are in the right space and suitable for such an environment. In some circumstances we will ban outright if the matter is serious enough as defined by admin.

Addiction and Contagion
This page takes no responsibility for any addiction or emotional contagion which may develop. We advise that people whom are in a vulnerable mental or emotional state keep their use of the internet and online support groups to a minimum. Such supports are best used in addition to external supports in times of need when other services are busy or unavailable.

Images created by this page.
It is asked that these images or ideas are not stolen as own.

Child Protection and Confidentiality
Where a child or minor is deemed to be at risk we will contact the necessary authorities in your country. To prevent this happening we will need the contact details of a person already involved with the case so we can confirm that support is already in place. Without this we will ban from use of this page.

Where a person is regularly self - harming or placing them or others at risk we will require the contact details of a professional or family doctor / general practitioner you are registered with.

In both cases we will ask for your consent to contact these people and inform you of what will be shared.

In addition we may ask for the details of next of kin to contact in an emergency.
I only take credit for my own pics, which have either my page name on them.
If I share from another page that has shared incorrectly, or if it is on Google without a credied source, then we cannot be held responsible