New Member? - Read this first

Welcome to The Antidepressant Harm & Recovery Forum

We encourage all members to make an introduction post. Its good if you are going to participate in a community to introduce yourself first. All posts are moderated until a member has made an introduction topic and posted twice (including the initial intro post), from this point onwards a member can post freely.

Here on AR, our Introduction topics act as a kind of 'home base' or 'home page', where we can share our progress and journey with each other. They are the backbone of the site.

There is are no rules as to what you should or shouldn't say in your first post, this is completely down to you! Most write a short history about how they came to be on antidepressants, an outline of their overall drug history and any symptoms, followed by a summary of where they are at now. A moderator will then read your post, give you a personal response and make your topic live so others can interact with you. Going forwards, you should keep all questions/posts associated with your personal journey in your introduction topic.

The value of this forum is in the community it fosters. We hope that all of our members will be able to learn from each others' experiences, both the good and the bad. To this end, we strongly encourage members to not only document their personal journey on their own thread, but to read and post on other members' threads and otherwise make full use of the resources available throughout the forum.

Please familiarise yourself with the forum rules and the disclaimer located here: Guidelines

Please make sure your signature is kept up to date with your drug history. This will allow members to see some basic information about your drug history and situation so that they may help you best. Information on how to do this is located in the FAQs section above, but here is a direct link: Update Signature

Once this is done, future posts made by you will have this signature turned on by default. For this reason please keep it clear but condensed as possible.

Please use the format outline here Preferred signature/drug history format

Edited September 30Sep 30 by SarahMc