[winter loneliness]

Oh. It was odd to me. You ask a lot of questions on here and answer them on your blog. I was curious if this man did something similar.

[MoxieDoxie]

Originally Posted by winter loneliness

Oh. It was odd to me. You ask a lot of questions on here and answer them on your blog. I was curious if this man did something similar.

I do not have a blog

Originally Posted by MoxieDoxie

Im the OP of this thread but it was not my post that was stolen. After seeing what happened I just can't post personal stories anymore regarding my experience with therapist or mental health issues in life.

Hi Moxie, I am so sorry you don't feel safe. ((((hugs)))) That makes me very sad. This story also makes me feel wary about what I post too. It is said to not have personal issues posted if we don't want to be identified since they can be found in Google.

Originally Posted by winter loneliness

Oh. It was odd to me. You ask a lot of questions on here and answer them on your blog. I was curious if this man did something similar.

This man quoted someone directly from here. In no way do I ever do that. Sure, sometimes I get inspiration for a topic from a forum, but I never ever ever would steal material from here in any way.

Why is this suddenly about my blog and questioning of my own blog? I feel defensive. I do not steal nor quote nor take personal stories from here.

[scarlett35]

Originally Posted by golden_eve

This man quoted someone directly from here. In no way do I ever do that. Sure, sometimes I get inspiration for a topic from a forum, but I never ever ever would steal material from here in any way.

Why is this suddenly about my blog and questioning of my own blog? I feel defensive. I do not steal nor quote nor take personal stories from here.

No it wasn't like that. I think it's fine to get inspiration. If the man had just wrote his own story about how to handle the situation without directly quoting my post that would be fine. Bit when he actually copied and pasted my stuff word for word... anyone could paste it into Google and then find all my posts on here. All it needed was more anonymity !

Originally Posted by scarlett35

No it wasn't like that. I think it's fine to get inspiration. If the man had just wrote his own story about how to handle the situation without directly quoting my post that would be fine. Bit when he actually copied and pasted my stuff word for word... anyone could paste it into Google and then find all my posts on here. All it needed was more anonymity !

YES. He violated the TOS. That was not right at all. HUGS.

[winter loneliness]

I don't know the guy or the site. I am just commenting that anyone can type into google and get referred to a forum such as this.

I was asking you since you have a blog. Has that happened to you.

Originally Posted by winter loneliness

I don't know the guy or the site. I am just commenting that anyone can type into google and get referred to a forum such as this.

I was asking you since you have a blog. Has that happened to you.

It pisses me off what this person did and now, the result and repercussions of what he did. No, it's never happened to me.

[winter loneliness]

I imagine his site doesn't get much traffic.

[MoxieDoxie]

I wish we had a way to delete our own posts with out having to ask to have it deleted. Like facebook does. A button on the side of your post that allows you to hide the post or delete it. I would go through all my posts that I would feel embarrassed about if someone I knew from the outside world saw it.

I hope his site doesn't get much traffic. He is an immoral trolling SOB. I'm getting worked up over the issue. I have integrity with my own blog, which I will proudly defend. This person has no integrity.

Personally, I am not a fan of the fact that literally ANYONE can read and see what we post just by doing a simple Google search.

This site probably gets loads of traffic, considering it's one of the biggest and most popular mental health forums out there right now. PsychCentral doesn't have very much competition either...

I, personally, would feel safer if the more serious forums were password protected. Meaning that only people with an account can view them... Such as the SZ forum, the abuse forum, DID forum, PTSD forums, etc.

It especially sucks that we have very sensitive and very vulnerable people here sharing information about themselves that is NOT protected.

[Patagonia]

The postings from this person are really pathetic in the use of the English language, sentence structure & actual advice given.

Look at this article about Transference. Oh wait he probably doesn’t understand that word bec he’s not a licensed therapist! Duh!

“It is not normal to have a crush on your therapist when you are married or the therapist is married, but some people do and it's a temptation. Falling in love with a therapist is a big temptation if one of you is married and you need to learn how to fight that temptation.”

I wonder if he’ll pull anything from the sexual issues forum?

If he really wanted to write an article based on MH, “religion” etc all he’d have to do is turn on the television & watch an episode of something. This is pure laziness.

As always I’d follow the money. Is he profiting from any of this? If he has advertisements I’d go after that.
Who is backing him financially? It’s always about money!!!!

I also want to add that, all of our information is easily readable and accessed by people outside of the community..

Someone who used to post in the Schizophrenia forum (who later ended up murdering someone) had their posts referenced in Psych Central's Wikipedia page.

I just went to check the page now it's gone, but it was public knowledge for a long time.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Psych Central was cited as one of the top two mental health-focused Web sites returning search results for this analysis.

So this tells me that this site gets a lot of traffic. Now that people are more aware that ANYONE can search and find our information, I hope this leads to changes around here.

[TishaBuv]

This site is hugely popular. You can see how many have read a thread, and how many are Visitors on the site. There are not so many active posters, but there are many ‘lurkers’.

I hate to admit, I probably have a bit of exhibitionistic tendencies to even want to put my stuff out there for all to see. And I sometimes imagine who might be reading and using what I write for whatever purposes one can imagine...and I don’t f’n care!

But, the probably truth is, nobody cares, nobody’s using it or profiting from it. Not even me.

[seesaw]

Originally Posted by Patagonia

The postings from this person are really pathetic in the use of the English language, sentence structure & actual advice given.

Look at this article about Transference. Oh wait he probably doesn’t understand that word bec he’s not a licensed therapist! Duh!

“It is not normal to have a crush on your therapist when you are married or the therapist is married, but some people do and it's a temptation. Falling in love with a therapist is a big temptation if one of you is married and you need to learn how to fight that temptation.”

I wonder if he’ll pull anything from the sexual issues forum?

If he really wanted to write an article based on MH, “religion” etc all he’d have to do is turn on the television & watch an episode of something. This is pure laziness.

As always I’d follow the money. Is he profiting from any of this? If he has advertisements I’d go after that.
Who is backing him financially? It’s always about money!!!!

That article about the therapist was directly drawn from here too. And he's wrong. It's actually so common that a patient falls in love with a therapist that we have a name for it! He just has no knowledge and doesn't do any research on any of the topics other than a cursory search on WebMD, which he cites but doesn't do any real analysis. He's a hack, and a bad one at that.

[amandalouise]

ok just made a post and it disappeared, not sure if it went through or if the timer maxed out while I was typing. Sorry if this turns out to be a repeat...

first ... what follows understand i am not saying what this ex member did is right... just putting this in perspective....

someone posted they thought each of the forums should be password protected...

my opinion... this will not solve the problem. if you read the posts in this thread you will see that someone mentioned the person was a member here. that means if the forums were password protected he would have already been able to read the posts, right click copy and paste what ever posts he wanted to outside psych central anyway.

also something to consider... many mental disorders, meds and physical problems come with memory issues.. how many of us can actually remember our own passwords 100% of the time to log in here let alone the 50-100 different passwords needed in order to password protect each individual forum like suggested. the team would be so busy emailing us passwords they would not have time to moderate and do their jobs here. let alone changing the passwords every time each person got suspended for so many days, so many months ... or got banned for so much of a time period... (somewhere around here it was discussed how bannings and suspensions are not permanent most times, they are to give members time to think about what they need to do to change their own behaviors, not as a forever punishment.)

someone in the thread mentioned deleting our own posts...

we can we all have 4 hour time period where if we are second guessing what we have posted and no longer what others to see something that is too personal we can click on edit. delete the post we want deleted then replace it with the word "deleted"

after 4 hours well I remember reading somewhere there is a reason for this... that people were using this to get replies then change their posts so that replies would no longer fit what was stated in the original post, it would also cause problems for those who have replied under the self deleted posting and it also would not prevent others who have already seen the deleted post from replying about what was deleted anyway.

by having to go through the moderators the whole thread can bee deleted, not just one post if needed in order to keep the rest of the conversation intact, the moderators can also go through the thread and delete the quoted post that may have been deleted but now appears in someone else reply as a quote.

heres the part where some may take this wrong so I stated at the top that I wasnt saying this person was right in what they did, just putting this in perspective.....

some of us here post memes/ pics/ and avatars that we like from other sites like facebook, twitter, instagram, and other place too. I dont know about everyone else but I know that I do not follow that meme/ pic/ avatar or quote back to its original creator every single time. it would take years to follow a meme found on facebook back through all its thousands of shares and websites to find the creator and then message its creator to ask permission to post it here on psych central.....

my point is not to point fingers but to put this in perspective.... some outside of psych central .......could .....say we have done the same thing that this person has done....taken someone elses creation and posted it here without gaining permission to do do....

can anyone prevent us from gathering memes and so on outside psych central and bringing it , even when some of the places that these memes appear on say in fine print at the bottom of the pages that they can not be copied/ reproduced elsewhere?

no they can not, its just how the internet works.

lets reallly think about this for a moment, what has psych central done to protect us from this situation.....

we were notified at registration not to post anything of a personal nature that we would not want others to have access to, and to use a user name that we do not use somewhere else.

we were notified in the guidelines / FAQ that psych central allows google to do its thing here.

we were notified in the guidelines FAQ not to post anything of a personal nature that we would not want others to know / have access to.

my opinion is psych central did everything they could to protect us from what happened and has happened many times before in my 8 years here.... someone taking psych central posts or pics and plastering them elsewhere.

my opinion is we all have a responsibility in this too. the solution isnt on psych centrals end of things, and the solution isnt on the side of those that are doing this.

the solution is well with in ourselves by following the warnings / information that was given to us at registration and is available 24-7 for anyone to see....

if we dont want others to have access to something so personal it would upset us to find it plastered outside of psych central then dont post it.

psych central (doc john or who ever behind the scenes) did their part, now its up to us to take responsibility for our own actions. we cant control what others do outside the site and neither can anyone at psych central.

we can continue to bash an ex member for what they have placed in their website but as long as we dont follow through with our own safety rules the site gives us of not posting personal information we dont want google and others to have this is going to keep happening.

now for a situation that happened to me... I made some dissociative threads, not a day later one of those posts of mine was on no less than 6 websites. I told a friend of mine... her response..... duh its the internet. its the fastest mass media, its the fastest gossip line there is. treat every site you are on just like its facebook, twitter, instagram and the national inquirer. nothing ........anywhere..... no matter if there are security locks, passwords or not, is private on the internet. if you dont want it plastered around the net dont put it on the net.

I couldnt help but be a bit embarrassed and laughed at the same time.

my point yes this person did wrong........but.... those of us at any time who have had our words stolen and plastered somewhere else have to take responsibility for what happened too.

we have been told in more ways then one, on more than one occasion that this can happen. the rest is left up to each one of us to decide what we want to post and what we consider to be too personal for others to see, read and use outside psych central.

[growlycat]

Sure this can and will happen but I choose to fight back against these bottom feeders who prey on vulnerable people.

[seesaw]

Originally Posted by amandalouise

ok just made a post and it disappeared, not sure if it went through or if the timer maxed out while I was typing. Sorry if this turns out to be a repeat...

first ... what follows understand i am not saying what this ex member did is right... just putting this in perspective....

someone posted they thought each of the forums should be password protected...

my opinion... this will not solve the problem. if you read the posts in this thread you will see that someone mentioned the person was a member here. that means if the forums were password protected he would have already been able to read the posts, right click copy and paste what ever posts he wanted to outside psych central anyway.

also something to consider... many mental disorders, meds and physical problems come with memory issues.. how many of us can actually remember our own passwords 100% of the time to log in here let alone the 50-100 different passwords needed in order to password protect each individual forum like suggested. the team would be so busy emailing us passwords they would not have time to moderate and do their jobs here. let alone changing the passwords every time each person got suspended for so many days, so many months ... or got banned for so much of a time period... (somewhere around here it was discussed how bannings and suspensions are not permanent most times, they are to give members time to think about what they need to do to change their own behaviors, not as a forever punishment.)

someone in the thread mentioned deleting our own posts...

we can we all have 4 hour time period where if we are second guessing what we have posted and no longer what others to see something that is too personal we can click on edit. delete the post we want deleted then replace it with the word "deleted"

after 4 hours well I remember reading somewhere there is a reason for this... that people were using this to get replies then change their posts so that replies would no longer fit what was stated in the original post, it would also cause problems for those who have replied under the self deleted posting and it also would not prevent others who have already seen the deleted post from replying about what was deleted anyway.

by having to go through the moderators the whole thread can bee deleted, not just one post if needed in order to keep the rest of the conversation intact, the moderators can also go through the thread and delete the quoted post that may have been deleted but now appears in someone else reply as a quote.

heres the part where some may take this wrong so I stated at the top that I wasnt saying this person was right in what they did, just putting this in perspective.....

some of us here post memes/ pics/ and avatars that we like from other sites like facebook, twitter, instagram, and other place too. I dont know about everyone else but I know that I do not follow that meme/ pic/ avatar or quote back to its original creator every single time. it would take years to follow a meme found on facebook back through all its thousands of shares and websites to find the creator and then message its creator to ask permission to post it here on psych central.....

my point is not to point fingers but to put this in perspective.... some outside of psych central .......could .....say we have done the same thing that this person has done....taken someone elses creation and posted it here without gaining permission to do do....

can anyone prevent us from gathering memes and so on outside psych central and bringing it , even when some of the places that these memes appear on say in fine print at the bottom of the pages that they can not be copied/ reproduced elsewhere?

no they can not, its just how the internet works.

lets reallly think about this for a moment, what has psych central done to protect us from this situation.....

we were notified at registration not to post anything of a personal nature that we would not want others to have access to, and to use a user name that we do not use somewhere else.

we were notified in the guidelines / FAQ that psych central allows google to do its thing here.

we were notified in the guidelines FAQ not to post anything of a personal nature that we would not want others to know / have access to.

my opinion is psych central did everything they could to protect us from what happened and has happened many times before in my 8 years here.... someone taking psych central posts or pics and plastering them elsewhere.

my opinion is we all have a responsibility in this too. the solution isnt on psych centrals end of things, and the solution isnt on the side of those that are doing this.

the solution is well with in ourselves by following the warnings / information that was given to us at registration and is available 24-7 for anyone to see....

if we dont want others to have access to something so personal it would upset us to find it plastered outside of psych central then dont post it.

psych central (doc john or who ever behind the scenes) did their part, now its up to us to take responsibility for our own actions. we cant control what others do outside the site and neither can anyone at psych central.

we can continue to bash an ex member for what they have placed in their website but as long as we dont follow through with our own safety rules the site gives us of not posting personal information we dont want google and others to have this is going to keep happening.

now for a situation that happened to me... I made some dissociative threads, not a day later one of those posts of mine was on no less than 6 websites. I told a friend of mine... her response..... duh its the internet. its the fastest mass media, its the fastest gossip line there is. treat every site you are on just like its facebook, twitter, instagram and the national inquirer. nothing ........anywhere..... no matter if there are security locks, passwords or not, is private on the internet. if you dont want it plastered around the net dont put it on the net.

I couldnt help but be a bit embarrassed and laughed at the same time.

my point yes this person did wrong........but.... those of us at any time who have had our words stolen and plastered somewhere else have to take responsibility for what happened too.

we have been told in more ways then one, on more than one occasion that this can happen. the rest is left up to each one of us to decide what we want to post and what we consider to be too personal for others to see, read and use outside psych central.

I agree with most of what you said. However, there is still copyright infringement going on, and, even with agreeing with you about only posting what I'm okay being searched and found here, if I find my posts copied somewhere else without my permission, I'm still going to let that site owner they need to stop or cite me. I'm within my rights to do that. Just because people steal doesn't make it right.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by seesaw

I agree with most of what you said. However, there is still copyright infringement going on, and, even with agreeing with you about only posting what I'm okay being searched and found here, if I find my posts copied somewhere else without my permission, I'm still going to let that site owner they need to stop or cite me. I'm within my rights to do that. Just because people steal doesn't make it right.

no it doesnt make it right what happened and if you reread my post I said that and said very clearly in two places in my post that I was not saying what he did was right.

I am very glad that you do notify the sites when it happens. its great that you can stand up for your self that way. being proactive is always good in my opinion

[Patagonia]

Originally Posted by seesaw

That article about the therapist was directly drawn from here too. And he's wrong. It's actually so common that a patient falls in love with a therapist that we have a name for it! He just has no knowledge and doesn't do any research on any of the topics other than a cursory search on WebMD, which he cites but doesn't do any real analysis. He's a hack, and a bad one at that.

I did not & will not read the article that was posted by this person bec of this lead on sentence basing moral judgment upon the “temptation” etc etc.
To me this is playing upon the readers guilt, shame & this persons moral high ground...& well basic crapola served on a cracker.
Wish I had all that spare time this narcissist has to devote so much time into building a website.

[MoxieDoxie]

I want so bad to discuss what happened in my EMDR session yesterday but just could not post thinking about how it might be used on the internet. I am obviously now thinking about everything I have ever posted and how embarrassing it would be to see it being used as a topic somewhere else.

I feel like I just lost one of my only support system where I can post my raw unfiltered feelings about my mental health and my journey with mental health professionals. Normal people out here just do not understand.

[scarlett35]

I wouldn't let this put you off posting here moxie. Put yourself first and if you need this resource, don't suffer, use it! Just don't put any identifiable info on here like your real name etc. It's highly doubtful that many people look at his website and even if they did, they wouldn't think to Google it and link it back to psych central.

We are all vulnerable here and I think it's a wonderful resource to get advice. There's always gonna be someone who tries to exploit that but we really need to think about ourselves and our own needs and try not to worry about the rare occasion someone might steal one of ours posts for their very small corner of the internet.

*hugs*

[LadyShadow]

Originally Posted by winter loneliness

Oh. It was odd to me. You ask a lot of questions on here and answer them on your blog. I was curious if this man did something similar.

I do a lot of the same things. I post a question sometimes on PC and take what I learned and write them in my blog. BUT I don't steal the answers I get from people, word for word no less, it is mostly for inspiration in which I form my OWN opinion on said topic.

But it was already mentioned that PC is mostly used for inspiration, so I won't dwell on that, just wanted to add my two cents.

I feel bad for Moxie, who now feels afraid to post on PC. This breaks my heart, because not only is PC one of the best resources and outlets for discussing mental health, and it really is SO helpful for anyone who is struggling. I urge you to post, but as scarlett said, refrain from any personal information that would tie you to the post.

Since someone mentioned Google and search engines, I had a VERY eye-opening experience with the way personal information is handled. I have a handle, (username), that I used to use with EVERTHING, as a matter of fact it was the username I used with my very first email address, the email address that I still use for mostly everything today. Since I pay my residential phone/cable/internet bill with this email address, it somehow got leaked to one of those "People Finder" websites, which I have to say are popping up all over the place.

Anyway, long story short, somehow, that username I always use got leaked, and now when you google it, ALL MY PERSONAL information: address, real full name, telephone number is all over the search results. It's like if someone googled my PC username: "LadyShadow" and my whole life ended up in the search results, including those posts from PC. Google your favorite username sometime, you will see what I am talking about.

It was such a shock to my system, and I had to abandon my favorite username that I had for years, because I fear that if I use it on another site or forum and some real troll googles it, my whole life will be in front of their eyes, and my whereabouts of where they can find me.

It's the way of the world now, and the way of the internet, and honestly nothing is safe or sacred anymore.

[MoxieDoxie]

I do not post and identifying factors in my post that can be traced back to me.

Now I am aware that someone can write an article about therapy and write something I wrote about a session I posted here and then my T is reading about articles written on therapy and then recognizes that it is exactly what was said and done in one of our sessions and then gets suspicious.