It is to help provide you with general mental health information and awareness. If you need immediate assistance contact Lifeline 131114. The headspace Southport page is for people to find out more about headspace Southport and the services we offer, as well as providing a platform for discussion about mental health and youth issues. If you need immediate assistance contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Kids Helpline on 1800 551 800. Please be respectful of all points of view, and refrain from personal attacks on other users. headspace Southport will remove any posts which:
• are likely to be offensive to other readers
• discusses methods of su***de or self-harm
• discussed drug usage in an unbalanced way, e.g. omit the negative effects
• contains unhelpful advice, such as blaming a person for their depression
• are dogmatic, such as setting out courses of action as “the only way”
• are racist, sexist or discriminatory
• are obscene, or uses graphic sexual language
• are defamatory, or overly critical of services or organisations which provide help to others
• for any other reason is likely to cause harm / distress to other young people reading the story
• are posted for commercial purposes
• promote inaccurate, inappropriate or harmful health advice. headspace Southport encourages community members to share information about events, support groups or other mental health organisations but request information is only posted once to maintain a flow of discussion and ensure that no one event is given undue prominence. Multiple posts promoting a service, group or product will be removed. In certain circumstances, if a post raises concerns about your safety, we may try to contact you to check that you and/or others are safe. If there are significant concerns, we may need to pass on your contact information to authorities who can help protect you and/or others, such as a crisis service or the police. Our preferred way to do this would be to support you to seek help. We are obliged to try to protect you and/or others if the information you submit tells us that:
• you are being seriously hurt by someone else
• you are thinking of seriously harming yourself
• someone else is being, is likely to be, seriously hurt by you or another person. headspace Southport can take no responsibility for comments on our page, or any interactions fans may have on or off our page. headspace Southport does not check for new stories over the weekend or on public holidays.
