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Twitter gave me PTSD: Woman (feminist/atheist) claims mean comments and 'cyberstalking' gave her...
Daily Mail ^ | 17 April 2014 | Sara Malm

Posted on 04/18/2014 7:35:53 AM PDT by dead

A Washington woman has come under fire over claims her PTSD caused by online harassment and Twitter trolls is equal to that of military veterans.



Harassed: Melody Hensley claims online bullies and Twitter trolls has caused
her PTSD and that it is just as bad as that suffered by veterans of combat.

Melody Hensley was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 16 months ago following online abuse, which she says is the result of her being an outspoken feminist and atheist.

She caused upset to many military veterans and their families and friends when she claimed her PTSD from Twitter trolls was as bad as mental anguish suffered by those who do active duty.

Ms Hensley, head of an organisation promoting secular ideas, has suffered from PTSD for more than a year, according to her Twitter account.

In an interview with DailyDot.com, Ms Hensley says she became a target for 'atheist misogynists and men's rights activists' a few years back, following her open status as an atheist and feminist activist.

One man in particular has waged a two-year hate campaign against her by publishing her tweets using Storify, others have cut-and-pasted her tweets into YouTube videos, belittling her claims of PTSD.

She claims to be harassed by a cybermob of ‘more than 400 people’ which led to her diagnosis.

On her Twitter feed Ms Hensley outlines her history of PTSD in several posts, saying she was bedridden for the first six months following her diagnosis, and that she has been so distressed about the online hatred she fears leaving her house unaccompanied.

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1 posted on 04/18/2014 7:35:53 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead

No,Honey,your nuts!


2 posted on 04/18/2014 7:37:29 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: dead

2016 Dem convention speaker. Possible running mate to Princess Hillary or Dizzie Miss Lizzie.


3 posted on 04/18/2014 7:37:36 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: dead
"lascivious, salacious, outrageous!"
4 posted on 04/18/2014 7:39:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

“No, honey, your nuts..”

Nuts, ugly glasses, stupid hair cut and what is with that hat?!! Guess she’ll end up in bed for 6 more months after my comments?! /s


5 posted on 04/18/2014 7:39:53 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: dead

Here we go... remember all of those bully laws states are putting into effect....


6 posted on 04/18/2014 7:41:11 AM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: dead

Hey toots, it’s nothing compared to what your folks have said to the Palin family.


7 posted on 04/18/2014 7:42:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dr. Ursus
No,Honey,your nuts!

Leave her nuts out of this.

(Signed)

The FR Grammar Police

8 posted on 04/18/2014 7:46:03 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: dead
On seeing this photo my dear departed Dad would have asked “how much does she charge to haunt a house?”
9 posted on 04/18/2014 7:46:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: dead

This is not surprising.

Much of liberalism, at its core, is the fashionable view that the world is filled with oppressed victim classes, and a smaller number of oppressor classes, and that the liberal is a voice in the wilderness bravely crying out for justice.

A component of this psychological disorder of playing the victim and acting the victim (which is sometimes based on reality and sometimes not), and then transferring this unhealthy view of the PERSONAL world to the larger POLITICAL world.

In this case, the “victim” has moved in the opposite direction. First she followed the fashion of liberal victim-baiting, then transferred her perceived victimization of the worlds oppressed classes onto herself personally.


10 posted on 04/18/2014 7:46:11 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: dead; Darksheare
I'm sure i’ve had one of those caught in the headlights of the Car ,before now.
11 posted on 04/18/2014 7:46:18 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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Liberals have a tough time with twitter because they refuse to shut conservative voices down. I’ve been helping a guy with the title “Ban Collectivism” beat back the liberal right wing Hitler fantasy.

https://twitter.com/mrgeology


12 posted on 04/18/2014 7:46:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: dead

She looks ‘possessed’................


13 posted on 04/18/2014 7:46:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: dead
The one advantage of being “cyber-bulllied”,as opposed to the face-to-face kind,is that you can always turn the computer *off*
14 posted on 04/18/2014 7:48:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: Red Badger
She looks ‘possessed’................

Not "possessed"...under medicated.

15 posted on 04/18/2014 7:49:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: dead

The eyes say: “I’m plum loco”,

While the rest of her face says: “I’m as crazy as a rat in a tin outhouse during a hail storm.”


16 posted on 04/18/2014 7:49:18 AM PDT by WayneS (Help Control Politician Overpopulation - Spay or Neuter Your Senator or Congressman Today!)
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So, she gets down and cowers under a table when
ever she hears a computer go on?

Just two words......crazy eyes!

Wait, she’s an atheist and she’s being attacked by
atheists? Oh the horror.


17 posted on 04/18/2014 7:50:06 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Your Dad was quite clever.


18 posted on 04/18/2014 7:50:34 AM PDT by WayneS (Help Control Politician Overpopulation - Spay or Neuter Your Senator or Congressman Today!)
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To: dead

crazy eyes


19 posted on 04/18/2014 7:50:36 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: dead

Those are some serious “crazy eyes” she has going on there. Peer into those and you’re not going to find much in the way of sanity I bet.


20 posted on 04/18/2014 7:50:39 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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