Forum Guidelines

Purpose of Forums

An opportunity for you to engage with our passionate community of eating disorder sufferers, loved ones and treatment providers.  Here you can interact with others who understand, empathize and care about your experience, strength and hope with all things related to eating disorders and co-occurring issues.

Terms of Use for these Forums

Inappropriate posts will be removed by moderators as soon as possible.  We are constantly monitoring these forums in order to ensure your positive, rewarding and uplifiting experience.  Please allow us grace when we miss an inappropriate post and contact us immediately to let us know if you see anything amiss.  Please understand that these posts are the opinions, experiences and views of a wide array of different individuals.  Individual posts do not reflect the views or opinions of Eating Disorder Hope.

Do not post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. If you do, you will be permanently removed from access to these forums.

Know that the moderators of these forums will remove or edit any post that is of concern.  As a member, you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. This information will not be disclosed to any third party without your prior authorized consent.

Absolutely no advertisements, announcements, or  research requests are allowed to be posted.  Unless otherwise noted, copyrights of individual messages are owned and retained by their original poster. Unauthorized use or reproduction of any material found on these forums is strictly prohibited without prior authorization of the copyright holder.

Inappropriate Content – Do not post any of this

  • Advertisements

  • Political views or opinions

  • Soliciting others to join another online community

  • Intimidating or harassing others

  • Threatening or profane messages

  • Messages discussing a private message (PM) from others

  • All administrative issues (reach out to us directly at Contact Us)

  • Copyrighted materials (unless it is your material)

  • Suicidal threats or discussion

  • Condoning illegal acts

  • Mention of triggering topics: calories, weight numbers, BMI, etc.

  • Anything that violates the Terms of Use for this site

  • Announcements of Web sites, events, new resources, or books

  • Announcements for research projects

Privacy Policy

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Google and other search engines do index our forum.  We allow this so that others can find support and encouragement here, too. Be cautious and avoid disclosing any information that could endanger you, your privacy or others.

Moderation of Forum

Our moderators have the right to remove or edit anything posted they deem concerning.  Refusing to cooperate with the request or directive of a moderator could result in your suspension from the forum.

Use of Intellectual Property

Do not copy, quote, print or share another forum member’s postings on any another website, blog, or platform.

Photo Policy

Only post photos that you own and have the property right to post.  Do not post another’s photo without their documented, written permission to do so. Do not post anything that is graphic, lewd, sexually oriented or potentially offensive in any way.