Overview
Last updated June 9, 2026 - Version 2
Anxiety Fitness is a mental health, wellbeing, and health community platform where people can learn, connect, join supportive spaces, and access educational content from peers, professionals, and organisations.
These guidelines explain what is allowed, what is not allowed, and how we make decisions across Anxiety Fitness communities. They apply to everyone using Anxiety Fitness, and to every community built on the platform.
- Users.
- Verified professionals and professional organisations.
- Space owners, space moderators, room hosts, and creators.
- Platform moderators and admins when reviewing content or account behaviour.
Spaces can have different purposes, tones, formats, and community identities. They can set local rules, but local rules cannot allow behaviour or content that violates these platform guidelines.
This platform is not a replacement for therapy, medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, crisis support, or emergency services.
If you are at immediate risk or in crisis, contact local emergency services now and use local crisis resources. View emergency resources.
Community Principles
Safety before engagement
Anxiety Fitness should not reward content simply because it gets attention. Content that is sensational, fear-amplifying, clinically risky, exploitative, or unsafe may be limited or removed even if it is popular.
Support without dependency
Community can help people feel less alone, but it must not replace therapy, medical care, crisis services, or appropriate offline support.
Space for struggle without harm
Users can share difficult days, uncertainty, anger, grief, and ambivalence. The boundary is whether content is likely to trap people in hopelessness, panic contagion, repeated reassurance loops, unsafe comparison, or a group norm where staying stuck becomes the expected way to participate.
Education, not treatment
Educational content can explain concepts, skills, frameworks, and general approaches. It must not become individualized diagnosis, treatment planning, risk assessment, medication direction, or clinical decision-making.
Accountability for influence
Professionals, organisations, creators, moderators, and space owners have extra responsibility because their words and spaces shape user trust and behaviour.
Transparency and fair enforcement
We aim to explain our rules clearly, apply them consistently, and use proportionate action based on safety, context, repetition, and severity.
Our Rules
We have organized these guidelines by topic so they are easier to understand. The summaries below explain the platform baseline. More detail is included in the chapters that follow.
Mental health, clinical safety, and crisis boundaries
Anxiety Fitness is not therapy, diagnosis, medical care, crisis support, or emergency services. We do not allow content that asks the community to make medical decisions, provide treatment plans, assess urgent risk, or replace appropriate offline care.
Health and mental health support standards
We take extra care with health-related communities. We restrict content that can deepen distress, such as repeated reassurance-seeking, symptom-checking, disordered eating promotion, risky body-change advice, anti-treatment advice, despair-based community norms, and exploitative health claims.
Safety and civility
We do not allow harassment, bullying, threats, hate, discrimination, sexual harassment, doxxing, coordinated targeting, exploitation, or abuse.
Professionals, organisations, and spaces
Professionals and organisations can educate, host, publish, and build communities. They must keep clear boundaries, represent credentials accurately, and never provide on-platform therapy, diagnosis, individualized treatment, or medical advice.
AI content and synthetic media
Meaningful AI assistance must be labelled. We do not allow AI content to imitate lived experience, impersonate people or professionals, provide clinical advice, create fake testimonials, or manufacture trust.
Commercial activity, charities, and fundraising
Promotion, library products, rooms, tips, subscriptions, and charitable activity must be transparent and safe. We do not allow pressure, misleading charitable claims, off-platform payment evasion, scams, or exploiting vulnerability for money.
Privacy and security
Do not share private information, sensitive health details, confidential screenshots, identity documents, or personal data about yourself or someone else. Chats and DMs are not confidential clinical spaces.
Integrity and authenticity
We do not allow impersonation, fake credentials, misinformation likely to cause harm, fake engagement, undisclosed commercial interests, misleading AI content, or attempts to evade enforcement.
Health and Clinical Safety
Anxiety Fitness hosts mental health, wellbeing, and health-related communities. That means we apply a higher safety standard to content that could influence care decisions, deepen distress, or exploit vulnerability.
Allowed
- Sharing lived experience in a bounded and context-aware way.
- Asking for perspectives, encouragement, or practical ideas within the limits of peer support.
- Discussing recovery, management, adaptation, disability, identity, community care, and wellbeing without presenting one path as required for everyone.
- Professionals and approved creators sharing education within their role, scope, and platform permissions.
- Encouraging someone to contact emergency services, crisis lines, or their own clinician when risk is present.
Not allowed
- Asking the community to decide whether symptoms are dangerous or whether emergency care is needed.
- Diagnosis, medication advice, treatment plans, risk assessment, or individualized clinical guidance.
- Instructions for suicide, self-harm, disordered eating, substance misuse, dangerous activity, or avoiding appropriate care.
- Repeated reassurance-seeking, symptom-checking, fear spirals, or posts designed to compare symptoms in ways that escalate fear.
- Content that promotes disordered eating, risky weight loss, risky muscle gain, harmful body comparison, or exaggerated body-change claims.
- Communities or threads that make hopelessness, avoidance, or being stuck the expected way to belong.
Better framing
I am feeling anxious and my body is loud today. I am using grounding and will seek medical help if I think I need urgent care. What helps you ride out uncertainty?
Avoid
Is chest tightness normal? Please tell me I am not dying.
Safety and Civility
Users must treat each other with dignity. Vulnerability is not permission for cruelty, control, ridicule, discrimination, or pressure.
Allowed
- Respectful disagreement and discussion of difficult topics.
- Setting boundaries and asking someone to stop contacting you.
- Discussing systems, public issues, clinical ideas, or platform decisions without attacking people.
Not allowed
- Harassment, bullying, intimidation, threats, sexual harassment, or unwanted repeated contact.
- Attacking someone based on protected characteristics, health status, disability, neurodivergence, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, or immigration status.
- Mocking panic, intrusive thoughts, trauma responses, compulsions, symptoms, relapse, medication use, diagnosis, or recovery pace.
- Dogpiling, brigading, coordinated reporting abuse, doxxing, or encouraging others to target a person or space.
- Dehumanizing language or calls for exclusion, segregation, or violence.
Professionals, Organisations, and Spaces
Professionals, organisations, space owners, creators, room hosts, and moderators can shape community safety. They are held to a higher standard.
Allowed
- General psychoeducation, wellbeing education, workshops, rooms, Q&A sessions, and community discussions within educational boundaries.
- Accurate descriptions of qualifications, services, scope, approach, availability, and organisation status.
- Local space rules that are more specific than the platform guidelines.
- Spaces with distinct purposes, tones, formats, and identities, including reflective, educational, practical, social, condition-specific, identity-aware, professional-led, peer-led, or recovery-oriented communities.
Not allowed
- On-platform therapy, diagnosis, assessment, risk assessment, prescribing, medication direction, or personalized care plans.
- Misrepresenting credentials, accreditation, licensure, supervision, insurance, scope of practice, or affiliation with Anxiety Fitness.
- Using user disclosures to solicit clients in a manipulative or high-pressure way.
- Outcome guarantees, miracle cure claims, fear-based marketing, or claims that verification means clinical endorsement by Anxiety Fitness.
- Spaces organized around harm, such as discouraging appropriate care, normalizing hopelessness as the group norm, rewarding fear spirals, or turning vulnerability into dependency, status, or sales pressure.
AI Content
Anxiety Fitness is built for connection with real people and content that feels human, honest, and trustworthy. AI-generated or heavily AI-assisted content is not automatically banned, but it is gently discouraged for community posts, wins, questions, comments, and personal sharing because it can make people unsure whether they are connecting with the real person behind the post. If AI is used, it must be clearly labelled and put into context.
Allowed
- AI-assisted educational drafts that are reviewed, corrected, and owned by a professional, organisation, or approved creator before publishing.
- AI-assisted summaries, captions, transcripts, translations, alt text, formatting, or plain-language rewrites.
- AI-generated images or media used for illustration where the synthetic nature and purpose are clear.
- Space-specific AI tools or prompts where the space clearly explains what the tool does, what it does not do, and how users should use it safely.
- Spaces setting stricter AI rules, including no AI-generated user posts, comments, images, audio, video, or prompts.
Not allowed
- AI-generated content presented as personal lived experience when the author did not have that experience.
- AI-generated professional, clinical, legal, safeguarding, crisis, or medical advice.
- AI-generated replies or messages that simulate therapy, diagnosis, risk assessment, crisis support, or a professional relationship.
- AI-generated testimonials, reviews, case studies, user quotes, beneficiary stories, health claims, research citations, statistics, or credentials that have not been checked.
- Uploading private user data, chat content, health information, or identifiable community material into external AI tools without a valid basis, permission, and privacy review.
Human-first community
Users should aim to use real content where possible. AI content should not replace personal presence, lived experience, or genuine participation. A clear label should explain what was AI-generated and why it was used, such as: "I generated this image to represent what panic can feel like." Space owners may ban AI-generated or AI-assisted content where human-only participation is important to the space. Platform moderators may limit, remove, or decline AI content when it appears misleading, low-trust, clinically risky, exploitative, spam-like, or out of step with the human purpose of a community.
Good label
AI-assisted draft, reviewed and edited by the author.
Good label
I generated this image to represent what anxiety can feel like.
Discouraged
A win, personal update, or community reply written mostly by AI without context.
Not allowed
I used AI to answer users crisis messages while I was offline.
Charities, Nonprofits, and Fundraising
Charities, nonprofits, community-interest organisations, and mission-led spaces can use Anxiety Fitness to educate, build community, run rooms, publish resources, and raise support where platform tools allow it.
Allowed
- Registered charities or eligible nonprofit organisations describing their mission, beneficiaries, registration status, and charitable purpose accurately.
- Spaces run by charities using a charitable purpose statement to explain who benefits and how funds are used.
- Platform-approved ticketed rooms, products, subscriptions, or optional tips where payment, payout, and review requirements are met.
- Fundraising language that is clear about whether money supports a registered charity, nonprofit organisation, creator, programme, or specific space.
- Updates that explain the impact of funds without revealing private user or beneficiary information.
Not allowed
- Claiming charitable status, registration, tax treatment, affiliation, or endorsement that has not been verified or is misleading.
- Using crisis, fear, guilt, shame, or user disclosure to pressure donations, tips, purchases, or subscriptions.
- Suggesting that a user must donate, tip, subscribe, or buy something to receive crisis support, safety, acceptance, or care.
- Misrepresenting how funds are used, who receives funds, or whether payments are charitable donations versus creator tips, room tickets, product purchases, or subscriptions.
- Publishing identifiable beneficiary or user stories, images, testimonials, or health details without appropriate consent.
Integrity and Authenticity
Users, professionals, organisations, creators, and spaces should participate honestly and avoid misleading people or manipulating platform systems.
Allowed
- Personal experience clearly labelled as personal experience.
- General education from credible sources.
- Discussion of uncertainty, emerging evidence, and different approaches when framed responsibly.
Not allowed
- False or misleading health claims likely to cause harm.
- Claims that a product, method, supplement, diet, course, room, or professional service cures anxiety or guarantees recovery.
- Impersonation of people, professionals, organisations, Anxiety Fitness staff, moderators, or emergency services.
- Fake credentials, fake reviews, fake testimonials, fake user stories, fake engagement, or undisclosed paid promotion.
- Multiple accounts used to evade moderation, mislead others, or manipulate platform activity.
- Undisclosed AI content used to manufacture activity, authority, agreement, urgency, testimonials, comments, reviews, or user demand.
Privacy and Security
Mental health communities can feel intimate, but platform content can be copied, screenshotted, searched, shared, or reported. Community spaces, chats, and DMs are not confidential clinical environments.
Allowed
- Sharing your own experience in a general, non-identifying way.
- Asking for consent before sharing someone else's words, image, story, or details.
- Reporting unsafe or inappropriate content instead of handling it alone.
Not allowed
- Posting someone else's personal information, images, messages, health details, workplace, school, address, contact details, or identity documents.
- Sharing screenshots from private chats, therapy, support groups, or another community without permission.
- Revealing a user's diagnosis, medication, crisis history, location, legal status, or family situation.
- Asking users to share private contact details, medical records, identity documents, or sensitive personal history in public posts or DMs.
- Using private information to threaten, pressure, embarrass, or manipulate someone.
Accounts and Features
Different features carry different safety responsibilities. Higher-reach health content and monetized features may require approval, verification, review, or feature-specific rules.
Allowed
- Users using community formats such as questions, wins, comments, chats, and space participation.
- Approved professionals and creators using posts, videos, rooms, library products, product updates, and subscriptions within platform rules.
- Room hosts stating whether a room is educational, peer support, professional education, social, product-related, recorded, paid, tipped, or connected to a charitable purpose.
- External links that are relevant, safe, transparent, and not used to evade platform rules.
Not allowed
- Live rooms, comments, chats, DMs, products, or videos used for crisis support, diagnosis, symptom evaluation, treatment decisions, or medical advice.
- Pressuring users to disclose personal or sensitive information in rooms, chats, comments, or DMs.
- Spam, repetitive promotion, unsolicited DMs, link dumping, fake engagement, off-platform payment pressure, or regulated goods and services where not permitted.
- Recording, republishing, or sharing room content or user participation without permission where permission is required.
Enforcement
Moderation exists to protect people, preserve trust, and keep communities aligned with their purpose. We review reports based on safety, context, role, repetition, severity, and platform rules.
Allowed
- Reporting content or behaviour that feels unsafe, inappropriate, misleading, exploitative, or outside the guidelines.
- Appealing a moderation decision where appeal routes are available.
- Asking Support for policy or compliance questions.
Not allowed
- Misusing reports, appeals, moderation tools, or creator tools.
- Trying to evade bans, restrictions, eligibility checks, verification processes, or payment controls.
- Handling crisis, harassment, safeguarding, or professional misconduct alone instead of reporting it.