Wow, reading that article and all you guys' posts really makes me feel not so alone. I have crohns disease- a really severe case of it, with a bunch of other serious medical conditions. Fun, I know. Anyway, I'm not super close with my family, and I don't really know anyone in person with all of the medical stuff- especially crohns- so I felt compelled to seek solidarity online a couple of years ago. I was diagnosed eight years ago, but I just felt like I was holding all of my emotions in and felt alone, if that makes any sense at all. Anyway, I found some Munchausen mothas, to put it lightly. Some people were cool, and I still talk to them as myself on facebook- you know, not as my cat lol.
But, yeah, I joined one forum for crohns and colitis, and all the site master did was beg for money and I found out he was buying weed and designer clothes and Ipods and stuff with it. Meanwhile, here I am working part time (struggling to do that with my illnesses!) and on disability and other people can't even do that- they're struggling with just disability, struggling to pay for meds (crohns meds are - hell all meds! are expensive lol) and this douche is buying weed and Versace, while the government AND his daddy is paying for everything? Lame. Then, there was the super mentally off balance chick with crohns I met from that same site who would message me strange things on facebook. I would just kind of go "um okay, whatever." She finally left me alone after she put her cats in an animal shelter because she couldn't afford them, but could still afford cable and internet/wifi, and complained about it and money. My response was to cut the cable and internet/wifi. Read a book, watch DVD's. Go the library and keep your furry friends. She called me not nice names. I would delete her and she's make up a new profile under another name and just send me long messages with mispelled words, all about how her life was so horrible and everything. I am almost certain she made it all up. Eventually, I talked to my doctor and stopped looking for the internet for comfort about my crohns. I admit, I did go to therapy more regularly. Judge me all you want, but I have been and am in therapy. It's helping, and I speak to less crazy people now. Sorry this post is so long, but I needed to get that off my chest. Hell, I had to shut my crohns blog down too because of jerkwads! I miss my blog
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