Anger At Fake Ptsders

[Mowi]

or my favorite thing to do is call them out on their faking and make it public that they are faking.

 

[Opizaf]

getting ptsd form smoking dope - also another case of ignorance.

Just a thought here... just from smoking dope, I don't think so. Quite possibly getting raped during or after smoking dope is a real possibility especially when this goes on for a duration. Just my 2 cents!

---SeanGeo

 

[Pifupit]

In addition to PTSD, I also hate people faking other disabilities or disorders because life gave them lemons. Um, just because you've been unemployed for a long time doesn't mean that you suddenly have chronic back pain and depression severe enough that you're eligible for Disability benefits! What about the people actually HAVING said disabilities and not getting anything because of fakers like you?

By you, I didn't mean the OP or any one here, I meant in general, so don't get the pitch forks out. thanks.

 

[Ehaku]

A lot of people in my country get denied disability benefits who genuinely need it, and then have a long fight to receive support. Or they are like me, and give up entirely, because it is easier than to go through the system. So I agree with most of the above. It's called knowing how to play the system, when you fake some kind of disability, and it's wrong.

I'm not sure it's all caused by people who are faking though. I think it is caused by a system that starts out with thinking no one is really entitled to care or financial support from their government. The fakers are just the scapegoats that some people use to blame when those in genuine need are denied what they are entitled to. Maybe it is different where you are from? It seems to work different from country to country.

I still cannot spot fakers here and assume they are a rarity, and I've never met anyone in real life who has claimed to have PTSD. I sometimes get confused when people say it is a trendy illness, but then I don't always engage enough with the mainstream media to know these things.

 

[Senev]

I hate living with this. Why anyone would fake it I don't know. Sometimes I feel like I made my up because I just am in denial about my trauma but then I have a good old fashioned flashback.

 

[Dunop]

This is something I worry about on a regular basis, that I will be seen as one of those "fake" people. It's why I so often leave the site and come back only on occasion. I tell myself that other people have gone through so much worse, have gone through REAL trauma and only a mentally weak person would be traumatized by what I went through because it wasn't that bad in comparison.
It has become even worse now that years have passed and I am in an in-between place, no longer fighting dissociation and flashbacks every single day and I wonder if I imagined how hard it was then. If I have had some success at recovery when so many don't, did I ever really have it? I question myself constantly. I don't tell anyone I have PTSD in real life because I am so afraid they will see me as lying or making things up.