How can anyone be sure users on this forum aren't lying?

SkepticSin wrote:You don't know who you're talking to 99% of the time, and even if you did, how can you certify that they're not just pulling your leg?

Who cares if they are lying and why should it need to be certified? Is something some rando posts on here really going to effect you that much? Shouldn't.

Also, I have suspected one or two on here have been lying, and they are no longer on these forums. However, I still spoke with them and offered them advice. Even if their stories online seemed highly suspect to being made up.

****T.Warning.**** -Light mentions of violence.

Ex. Entire cities waging war and thousands of alters all fighting and killing one another. Trapping him and holding him in a cell etc.

Basically all stuff he stole from either books, movies, or video games. Maybe those things influenced his own mental state. Who knows? But it doesn't matter, that's all on him.

I trust my intuition . Plus -why would people lie? No gain .
Are you legitimate and honest ? Are you projecting your stuff onto others ? I don’t quite get your point .

No use to spend any time or energy on answering this.

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Well..I don't know. I think this is a valid question and I don't take offense.

I mean...look at how many people with the diagnosis have a hard time believing it and then spend time wondering if they are actually making things up...especially when the diagnosis is new. I think denial is a healthy thing...that it is good to question any diagnosis...to see if it fits...to figure out if the therapist got it right.

I can see if someone is new to the diagnosis or just an outsider looking in...that some of what is posted could be hard to wrap one's head around...so to speak.

Deliberate lying? I could imagine it being done for attention or sympathy or emotional feeding of some sort. But personally, I don't automatically believe a 100% of anything I read or hear. I don't automatically believe a 100% of what a doctor or therapist says...there has been too much error.

And I do also have a history that can be hard to believe. So I always feel the need to bring documentation if I am going to discuss it for the first time.

Sometimes I do wonder how certain things are possible (it doesn't mean they aren't true). But this isn't a bad thing...it does me good to ponder a little. I enjoy the forum for ways I can relate (or not) and how it makes me consider my own past.

TeddyBear,

Even though SkepticSin is a new user, try to understand that many viewers can lurk the forums for a long time as guests before they register as members. I know, that's what I did before I registered here as a member in order to get a feel for the forum's tone.

And you're an admin for a trauma forum? Surely you know lurking is part and parcel of a forum's viewership.

realityhere wrote:TeddyBear,
And you're an admin for a trauma forum? Surely you know lurking is part and parcel of a forum's viewership.

Well, our forum is secured as fort knox so there is no lurking.
But as an admin i also know that there is a lot of people who just browse by one time and then dissapear. (i have been guilty of that many times too , and there is usually nothing wrong with that)
The thing here is the lack of personal information in the question, and that the username most likely is choosen for the question. Also, the last sentence about asking people to be nice is useless for someone who have lurked the forum, and therefore should know how nice people are here..
-So it looks a lot more like a onetimer than a lurker.

But i wont spend more time on this, so EOD for me...

"Also, the last sentence about asking people to be nice is useless for someone who have lurked the forum, and therefore should know how nice people are here.."

Really? That "last sentence" is an indication that the user has read forums enuf to realistically know that not everybody is nice (take reddit for example) and ppl here on PF aren't always nice. Take a look at the AsPD or NPD forums here and you'll know what I mean. Nice ppl on a forum is not a given. There will always be somebody with a different view or actually attack another user for certain views held.

It's la-la land to believe that forum members are all nice to each other. That's why there's moderation of a forum.

realityhere wrote:It's la-la land to believe that forum members are all nice to each other. That's why there's moderation of a forum.

I do know that not everyone is nice, you are a typical example of that.. i think you are very rude in these messages and thats why i said EOD too.. so byebye..