I just got this response:

"Hi MY NAME,

This is Armen Hareyan writing from eMaxHealth.com. I read your comment and wanted to reply.

First of all I do ask for forgiveness because I didn't have any harmful intentions. Here is my explanation and fix.

Explaination:

I was trying to be helpful. I used only one paragraph from the forum and put it in quotations. I didn't mention the forum trying to respect people's anonymity. However, I didn't claim it as mine because I put it in quotations, didn't use names. Also, the information was in a public forum and anyone can use it, unless they make it a closed or secret forum. No name or personality was revealed and I don't know them either. But I was just trying to write helpful stories about real life problems.

The Fix

I went through all these 3-4 stories and revised them. Now they have no reference to the forum and no quotes from the forum postings. It's all done. I did this out of respect to the forum members and to show my intent that I had acted in good faith.

Asking forgiveness

I do ask for forgiveness if there was anything wrong in my actions. I had acted in good faith and was trying to be helpful. When your comments brought it to my attention, I immediately revised the stories and they have no reference or relation the the forum.

I wanted to act as a friend of the forum community. If you are one of the admins or moderators, would you please restore my membership? Let's turn this around and make the best of it.

Thank you.
Respectfully"

And this is what I said in return:

"You expressly broke the terms of service of the forum. The only fix is to take the post down. This is from the terms of service/use that you agreed to when you went on the forum:

"Use of Intellectual Property

All users, visitors and members who access this forum agree not to copy and paste, quote, print-out, distribute, or otherwise use a member's postings or other contributions to the community on another website, blog, or service (including Psych Central's free user blogs) without first obtaining the expressed written consent and permission of the author to do so via a PM or email."

You did not act in good faith. The people on that site agree to the terms of service which state their posts and information will not be shared without their consent. You broke that faith. No way should your membership be restored. You violated our members' privacy with absolutely no respect for them. You did not even bother to ask if you could share their stories, which is against the terms of service that you agreed to when you became a member.

You need to remove all the offending posts now."