How Sick Do You Have To Be...

[Deleted member 1860]

How sick do you have to be to post a fake story here on the forum....a story you copied from somewhere else online?!?

Arg. Ok, I know not everyone here is who they say they are. But at the same time, lying about having PTSD?!?

I wonder if it was for fun or maybe a "research" project gone awry.

End of vent. I'm only venting because I spent 20 minutes writing out a reply because I actually identified with the poster about an issue that is very deep for me and I thought I could help. Blargh. Now I just feel like my issue is a joke.

 

[SeanCharles]

awwww :( Finding that kind of thing on this medium or on any forum definitely doesn't help the trust factor. Many of my trust issues have been resolved before I came to this forum. I may get into more of that later. I have yet to really share although I am sharing little by little. Also finding this on any 'community' doesn't help the community when it comes down to this. I am not really sure what else to add here.

 

[Ed Norton]

Just curious, which post are you refering to?

 

[SeanCharles]

I was wondering that too as I was responding....

 

[Abstract]

I have to say I wonder how sure anyone can be that the story elsewhere isn't the same person. Hopefully an explanation was asked for first before action was taken. I think it's very possible people change things to protect identity. Pretty difficult to prove one hundred percent I would think but I don't know the details obviously and I appreciate that we are being looked after.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

I'm referring to the locked thread in the therapy forum.

I know that nobody is 100% truthful because we don't reveal the entire truth about ourselves. And I know that there are dishonest people online.

But why here? Ok I know I'll never know. It just feels like the ultimate in deception because many of us cared enough to help this person.

Trust issues go hand in hand with PTSD so it's like they picked a shared "weakness" and played on that.

We'll never know the whole story. Or how Anthony figured it out. I'm just glad he's looking out for us.

 

[SeanCharles]

Even though I am still at a loss here slightly, I am remaining non-judgmental. Knowing that one can have anonymity on the internet doesn't entirely excuse someone faking an identity for whatever their motives are or were... right now I am not sure what if anything has been done or is going to be done. Plagiarism does not gain fame, it only hurts the honor system of trust.

 

[SeanCharles]

Interesting... Glad that's dealt with. It's sad that people will play like that. Definitely makes you wonder what they were hoping to gain... That we'll never know.

 

[macca]

Whaat! That's a shock. I guess...this is the internet. But...this sucks. I do not understand the motivation behind that. Anthony is a legend to notice!

 

[Samantha_83]

I have proven it was me who wrote this. If you go to the link now, I logged into my account and stated clearly that it is me from myptsd at the beginning, at the end and in the description. Thank you to those who did help. I did write this, it is MY story. It is not made up and it hurts to be labelled as it. I don't know that I want to be a part of this anymore as that just hurt worse than I could imagine, but I want those that helped me to know the truth. Thanks for the comments and help you gave me in the short time I was here.

 

[macca]

Samantha - if there has been a mistake - then I am very sorry. If you are being truthful, then it would have hurt terribly.

 

[Samantha_38]

I am being truthful. See how my account has been unbanned. Thanks for understanding that hurt. You can visit authors den now if you'd like...I wrote all over it that its me.