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Undiagnosed Recovering from bizarre escapade

Hello folks - just here to introduce myself. I haven't been formally diagnosed with PTSD but have been through some pretty harrowing stuff that I thought I'd share here. This is a pretty extreme and unusual story but here it goes.

Some number of years ago I experienced a sudden and profound dissociative fugue. When I eventually recovered and regained my wits, I became suspicious of the people I was living with and after some argumentation agreed to go to the hospital. There I was quickly certified by a psychiatrist and diagnosed with Psychosis NOS. I remained on a psych ward for several weeks before being discharged on extended leave (that is, as an involuntary patient not explicitly confined to a hospital). For several more years I remained in the mental health system, all while continuing to function as an adult (studying and working). Eventually I was discharged completely, however more recently it has come to my attention that footage containing myself featuring extreme abuse has been circulating, likely disseminated for monetary gain. A number of other people (co-workers, acquaintances) who have gained some knowledge of my situation have made more or less subtle comments concerning military torture techniques, such as might be used to break a person's will and compel them to commit degrading acts. Others have expressed shock or various other reactions upon (I am assuming) seeing the footage or becoming aware of its existence, however I have not engaged with them regarding this topic.

In short, I was likely drugged, forced to undergo some form of psychological torture, and then filmed while being abused in a state of enhanced suggestibility or weakened resistance. My initial interaction with some of the nurses and doctors in the mental health system leads me to believe that they deliberately misdiagnosed me as an attempt to gaslight and formally discredit me.

I realize this sounds rather outlandish, so I'll also list what kind of evidence I currently have available:

  • The video itself. I do not currently have possession of this myself, however several people have told me directly they've seen it and heavily insinuated it contains abuse of the nature I suspect. It would likely be retrievable with a more thorough search, which I have not yet dedicated the resources to conducting.
  • A recorded video conversation with a psychologist who was likely involved. I don't believe this would be incriminating but it is fairly suggestive.

The second point: I have also noticed that some of my social media feeds seems to be artificially saturated with disturbing content. I am aware that such feeds will naturally mold themselves around one's digital footprint, however the degree of saturation does not seem commensurate with the degree to which I have searched the relevant themes or topics, these being: powerlessness, torture, abuse, humiliation, corrupt authority figures abusing their power, and some even more specific, such as entrapped/powerless victims attempting to make covert appeals to strangers for aid. I have documented some of these if you would like to see for yourself - as a rough estimate, I'd say that %60-%70 of the content of the relevant feeds have been affected in this manner for the past 8-12 months since it's caught my attention. This could just be coincidental.

I'll pre-emptively validate anybody's skepticism because it's such an outlandish tale. Feel free to ask for clarification or details.

Apart from psychological support I'm also curious if anybody here knows anything about legal appeals, organizations that may be of aid, seeking justice, etc.

Thanks.
 
Welcome, sorry for what brings you here.

I would say your first step would be to gain the distributed footage. I have had a somewhat similar experience and no idea how to do that.

If anyone has seen it you would think they would seek to help rather than continue abuse. People are bad but shock and horror should make them do something to help.

Without some sort of evidence you will face a lot of hurdles and paths to nowhere. If anyone has any ideas I would be interested too.
 
Welcome, sorry for what brings you here.

I would say your first step would be to gain the distributed footage. I have had a somewhat similar experience and no idea how to do that.

If anyone has seen it you would think they would seek to help rather than continue abuse. People are bad but shock and horror should make them do something to help.

Without some sort of evidence you will face a lot of hurdles and paths to nowhere. If anyone has any ideas I would be interested too.
Yeah I'm working on getting the footage. This resource may be useful to you if you're still looking; in my case it was not, however, as the footage is likely being circulated on the dark web or even just a private server and therefore outside the range of this particular engine. If it's the former I could probably find it with a more sophisticated search service but it would take some $$$.

I too am shocked at the outright sadism I've encountered; many of the people involved in this seem to delight in seeing someone else destroyed. These are all working educated citizens, too. Apart from monetization the other motive was probably personal envy due to my station in life (high achieving, poised for success, intelligent, comfortable socioeconomic background, etc.) Pretty egregious for such a thing to occur in a developed country, especially when directed towards a high functioning, law abiding, educated, diligent citizen.

As for evidence, apart from the footage itself the recording of the psychologist is highly suggestive - he makes insinuations about people gratifying themself at the spectacle of someone else's abuse/torture and makes an odd comment about how an organization that could make such a thing happen would have to be adept at remaining concealed (and with an creepy little smirk). Still too vague to be incriminating, I think.

Do you mind me asking what happened in your situation?
 
What you described sounds very much like my situation.

Unfortunately people assume a lot, state facts and opinions to justify behaviour or to make a point.

High functioning, law abiding etc, none of it really matters, just labels people throw about. It can happen to anyone for any reason, as many here have experienced.

Anyone doing such a thing to you or anyone else, simply enjoying it, witnessing it and having the means to do something but keeping quiet. They are bad people regardless of any reason they might think they have.
 
hello jeremiah. welcome to the forum.

as mark twain said, "of course fact is stranger than fiction. fiction is obliged to make sense." i started psychotherapy with full trauma induced amnesia. my childhood was geophysically unstable with no one i can go to for confirmation or denial of my memories. it is somewhere between difficult and impossible to know where events occurred, much less who, when or why. i've not found much benefit in sorting the fact from fiction. either way, the memories are deeply disturbing must be processed. i seek to *simply* process and release. nothing simple about that process, but? ? ? different thread.

on the legal end, i "won" my day in court when my father was sentenced to hard time in two states. the "victory" was more traumatic than the events. the process is brutal. i suggest a strong therapy network before you begin. i trusted the justice system to support me in the psych repercussions and? ? ? they fell through miserably.
 
What you described sounds very much like my situation.

Unfortunately people assume a lot, state facts and opinions to justify behaviour or to make a point.

High functioning, law abiding etc, none of it really matters, just labels people throw about. It can happen to anyone for any reason, as many here have experienced.

Anyone doing such a thing to you or anyone else, simply enjoying it, witnessing it and having the means to do something but keeping quiet. They are bad people regardless of any reason they might think they have.
I'm not naive about this kind of thing just happening in general - what shocks me about my case is the sheer scope of who was involved. Before this happened I wouldn't have imagined so many people from stable family backgrounds either being casually indifferent to or deriving sadistic pleasure from a circulated video of someone being raped and tortured, especially when the whole ordeal had been abetted by the state. Insanity.
 
I dont know what to say really. Have had trouble with what I've been through and never been able to get to the bottom of it. Any attempt to leaves me targeted again.

Money is power and crime pays well i guess.
 

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