I was doxxed about one year ago and I am losing grip on my life and body. Please help me.
Dear TwoX
I've posted about my experiences with doxxing about a year ago, and I have now been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Everything triggers me. I am unable to apply for a job (much less write this), read about trauma or female objectification without reducing myself to a convulsing pile on the floor in shame. I feel like my birth-given right to live a happy, fulfilled life has been taken away from me. I feel like my name, face and body has become synonymous with the abuse people see of me online. Speaking to strangers, telling them my name, is a nightmare. I feel like whatever I achieve, my naked body will always be the most important thing about me on the web. We know how it is. It's always like that. I have a loving boyfriend, but it is just so hard for me to explain what I feel like. I feel like shit all the time. I do not think that I am depressed. I am able to feel tinges of happiness, to forget for a while. But then something happens, and I plunge back down to the thought that all in all up until now 24000 men have abused my face, my name and my facebook on pinkmeth for sexual gratification. I have luckily never been raped, but I feel like I am suffering an abuse that just continues and never ends. My entire facebook inbox is filled with disgusting messages from strange men. I can't even look people in the grocery store in the eye, i feel like i am developing paranoia. Men have come to my home in the past (my address was posted on 4chan along with the pictures), and I can't move, because no one wants to be roomies with a doxxed person because of the 'dangers'. And I know. I get it. I'm an object now. That is my body in those pictures. My name. My teenage boyfriends' room. I will never get to choose who sees me naked, I feel like I have been physically torn from my body, and I am floating away.
TL;DR: I was doxxed and it is permanently attached to my name and face. I feel like I have been torn from my body and I am suffering my abuse on repeat every day. I just want some sort of support. Thank you all, you're great.
edit: for those of you who say that these can get removed from the net. Remember, naked women are commodities. I am now a sexual product, making money for other people against my will. I am being prostituted on the internet. I can give examples on what an email exchange with these people look like, but imgur is being a bitch. I'll try to sleep for a couple of hours now. I'll appreciate absolutely anyone who can give me something constructive to wake up to for once. <3
Posted Mar 20, 2013, 10:47 PM UTC · edited