Bipolar 4 All

Welcome to Bipolar4All.

Bipolar4All provides a Message Board and chatroom for all those affected by bipolar to discuss all issues arising from the disorder, mental health and life in general. The Message Board is intended to have a friendly atmosphere for everyone who participates and all board users are expected to act in a responsible manner and have respect for their fellow users. To maintain a friendly atmosphere all members are expected to familiarise themselves with the following rules, guidelines and recommendations when using the board.


Things to be aware of:

For your own safety please be aware of the following before posting on the board or entering the chatroom:

· Bipolar 4 All recommend not giving out personal details such as your surname, postal address or phone number on the Boards. This is for your own safety and protection as other people browsing the Boards could easily misuse this information. Remember, when you are online, it is very easy for people to pretend to be someone they're not.

· It is important to keep in mind that the advice and support offered by members of Bipolar4all does not substitute the advice of a medical professional. Members of the forum are either people with bipolar disorder or people caring for those with the disorder and as such any advice offered should be used at your own discretion.

· All posts on Bipolar4all represent the opinion of the poster and not that of the board.

· The Triggering section of the board is for members in a great deal of distress, please exercise caution when reading such posts, you need to consider you own mental health at the time of entering the triggering section.

· The chatroom is not moderated at all times. It is an adult chatroom and as such discussions are wide and varied, it is your duty to be responsible for your own actions when in the chatroom. If a topic is distressing for you then please leave and please use a little discretion, particularly if someone is in distress. If you would like to talk about problems or worries there is a specific room set up for that, please ask anybody in the chatroom at that time if they are up to a chat of that nature.

· Bipolar4all does not provide a crisis service. If you require immediate support or medical assistance please call your emergency services or make use of the crisis numbers posted in the triggering section of the board

· The Admin team are here to answer any of your queries and ensure the safety and comfort of the members but please keep in mind that the admin team also either have bipolar disorder or care for those with bipolar disorder. While we endeavour to answer and resolve any problems with 24hrs, there may be occasions when this is not possible due to our own health and family commitments. Any personal disputes should be attempted to be resolved amicably via pm before admin are contacted (this does not include anything that can be deemed as abusive)



Rules & Regulations

Anyone posting on this Message Board agrees to abide by these Rules and Regulations.

What you cannot post:


· Suicide notes are not permitted and will be immediately removed from the board.

· Anything that could be deemed libellous or considered defamatory
Statements are libellous/defamatory if they identify a particular individual or organisation (either by name or by innuendo) and they tend to lower the subject in the eyes of right-thinking members of society such that damage to reputation may be presumed.

· This includes repeating information from another source that could be considered libellous/defamatory unless you can absolutely prove with documentary evidence in a Court Of Law that it is true. It is no defence whatsoever in terms of guilt to say that "someone else said it first".

· In law, just as a print journalist may be liable, so too will the message board poster if they post libellous/defamatory comments.

· Web site hosts and ISPs may also be liable for libellous/defamatory postings on message boards. For that reason any such posts will be subject to removal.

· If you consider any posts to be libellous/defamatory you should contact Bipolar 4 All (see Contact Us details) with full details of the date and time of the post plus the name of the poster so the matter can be investigated.

· Anything that is racist, homophobic, sexist, obscene, harassing, harmful, threatening, inciting violence, inciting hatred or could in any other way be considered offensive, abusive or objectionable

· Anything that is posted with the intention of causing trouble or disruption to the normal running of the Message Board or personal abuse aimed at other posters
(Often termed Trolling or Spamming this is defined as any posts that could be considered inflammatory, rude, repetitive or offensive, including posts designed intentionally to annoy, antagonise or abuse existing Message Board users or disrupt the flow of discussion.)

· Any advertising
(This includes the buying, selling or auctioning of items/products or linking to personal items for sale or auction.)

· Anything relating to any ongoing or pending court case as such a post may be in Contempt of Court

· Any abuse and defamation directed at Message Board moderators
(Such posts will not be tolerated under any circumstance. Repeated breach of this rule will lead to an immediate ban and removal of any offending posts.)



Other Rules

· Members are only permitted one account, the use of multiple login identities for the purpose of disrupting the Message Board is prohibited and will be deemed as trolling, in such cases an immediate ban can be applied to all identities.

· Abusive posts, pm’s or abuse directed towards a member in the chatroom will not be tolerated under any circumstances and will result in an immediate ban. Abuse includes harassment, discrimination, derogatory comments, humiliation, aggression, coercion and intimidation. Any abusive or upsetting pm's should be reported to Admin straight away using the Admin account and the pm needs to be copied to us PM via This Link, headers included and we will act upon this immediately. Anything you believe constitutes abusive behaviour on the board or in the chatroom should be alerted to the attention of the admin team within 24 hours so we can request the Chat Room logs from the hosting site.

· Discussions surrounding the banning of other users and any moderator decisions are not allowed on the message boards.

· Please post on the forum before entering the chatroom, the chatroom is an extension of the forum not a standalone feature and as such if you are joining the site purely for the chat facility be aware that we reserve the right to remove chatroom privileges at any point.

· Please do not attempt to side-step the swear filters - they are there for a reason!


Any posts that are deemed by Bipolar 4 All to break any of these rules may be removed at any time without warning. All users who register on Bipolar 4 All Message Board agree to be bound by these rules. Any user who breaks the rules may be banned from use of this Message Board (see disciplinary actions below)



Disciplinary Actions


· Users who break the rules may be banned either temporarily or permanently. Banned users will be notified on the Message Board. Temporarily banned users are not allowed to post on the Message Board and attempts to post during a temporary ban could result in a permanent ban.

· In cases of regular abuse of the Message Board rules Bipolar 4 All reserve the right to contact your Internet Service Provider.



Problems & Queries/Contact Us


· Any query or complaint about the Message Board should be emailed to the Admin staff with full details of the query or complaint at admin@bipolar4all.co.uk or PM via This Link

· If you believe that any content on the website contains a defamatory statement, please notify us immediately by emailing Bipolar 4 All with full details of the date and time of the post, plus the name of the poster so the matter can be investigated.

· If you see a message that you feel is breaking the Rules above, please report it to the moderators by emailing Bipolar 4 All with full details of the date and time of the post plus the name of the poster. It will then be evaluated and possibly removed at the moderator's discretion.



All rules apply both in chat and on the forum and the decisions of the admin or moderators are not for discussion


admin@bipolar4all.co.uk or PM via This Link