Can you please rephrase that in a more civil, professional tone appropriate for a moderator?.
All staff post as members unless clearly stated otherwise - we work within the community constitution like all other members. I don't need to be "professional" posting in my private capacity.
People come to this site very often looking for good support and information about an illness that significantly inhibits their daily lives, very often desperate for some insight into how to relieve their pain. And there is a huge amount of support and knowledge here, from people who really do know what they're talking about and can evidence that knowledge.
Posting as "fact" something that is clearly opinion is dangerous. For example suggesting it's possible for a lay person to differentiate between PTSD and schizophrenia purely by isolating and observing, suggesting that people with PTSD will always stabilise within 5 days and stay stable without medication, telling people that X medication did Y to me so no one should use it, saying presenting symptoms of PTSD ordinarily include ringing in the ears? It's all dangerous when stated as fact because people will read it, think it the person knows what they're talking about and act on it.
Take the "PTSD stabilises and stays stable without medication". I have no idea where you got that from but the very nature of PTSD means that the symptoms must both impair daily life and have endured over a period of time - usually at least a month though many diagnosticians will look for 3 months to allow for post trauma stress that's part of the usual healing process. The diagnostic criteria states the symptoms must be enduring.
Can you see that someone desperate for help, who thinks all of their symptoms are so awful they must be something more than trauma might read your post and think "shit, this has been going on for years, and I've never felt stable even with medication, and I've been away from my abusers for years so I should be stable, it must be schizophrenia" and then spend huge amounts of time and money looking for a doctor to diagnose something they patently don't have, instead of working on PTSD, which they do in fact have.
I can go through my other examples and explain why they're potentially incredibly dangerous if you wish, but I think you'll be able to figure it out.
It's fine for anyone to state their opinion here, and it's equally fine and important for that opinion to be strongly challenged because what we write here matters. Because you don't know how people will read and use what you've said.
I removed the website citation from your post because, having looked, I couldn't find the information you cited on the website. If you pm me a link to the relevant page, I'll insert it into your post. Per
@anthony's post though citing opinion, including opinion gained from another website, doesn't make something fact.
