Keep It Private
This includes your last name, address, and school name.
What is personal identifying information?
“If you really trusted me, you’d tell me.”
What is manipulation?
Encouraging someone to use coping skills.
What is healthy support?
Something that can happen if you give out your phone number.
What are unwanted calls or messages?
A respectful way to decline sharing personal information.
What is “I’m not comfortable sharing that”?
Sharing this online can allow someone to contact you after discharge.
What is social media username?
A peer asking you to keep secrets from staff.
What is a red flag?
Sharing discharge dates with another patient.
What is unsafe sharing?
A long-term consequence of oversharing online.
What is reputation damage?
Who you should tell if someone pressures you.
Who is staff?
This should not be shared with peers on the unit, even if you trust them.
What is phone number?
Planning to meet up immediately after discharge.
What is unsafe boundary behavior?
Telling someone, “I’m not comfortable sharing that.”
What is setting a boundary?
This can follow you home if you connect peers on social media.
What is drama or conflict?
The reason we don’t exchange contact info on the unit.
What is safety?
You should not share details about this, even if someone says, “I’ve been through worse.”
What is trauma history?
“You’re the only one who understands me.”
What is trauma bonding?
Posting about your hospitalization publicly while admitted.
What is oversharing?
A strong emotional reaction when someone you bonded with discharges.
What is feeling abandoned?
What you are here to focus on instead of relationships.
What is treatment and recovery?
This information could allow someone to show up where you live.
What is home address or neighborhood?
Trying to isolate you from other peers or staff.
What is controlling behavior?
Talking about your trauma only with licensed staff.
What is healthy sharing?
One major reason privacy supports recovery.
What is safety and stability?
The most important rule about your story.
What is “It belongs to me”?