Yesterday after reading a thread entitled ' Coming to Terms with My Trauma' on the 'Chat PTSD' room. I left the site feeling extremely disturbed by what I had seen taking place.

A very , very vulnerable young man who has suffered extreme violations against himself by a family member and their companion, has been coerced into outing his traumas in order for Anthony to demonstrate how to unravel the events in order to teach this young man the advantages of epowerment - ha! Empowerment, at whose expense?

I am absolutely, shocked, appalled and angry at what I can only describe as an abuse of power.

It does not matter what good intentions are behind this psycho babble exercise it is irresponsible to encourage this young man to take part in a amateur psychoanalysis experiment.

A survivor of PTSD or someone who claims to be managing their symptoms is NOT/NEVER in a position to undertake the seriousness of the context between a therapist and their patient. Unless, you are a qualified therapist? And, even then I would question the integrity of the therapist who is so blatantly sidestepping all of the ethical considerations between therapist and patient, amongst other gross misconducts - irrespective of your legal disclaimer.

I am sure the young man involved will now leap to your defence and tell everyone how much you have helped him and how worthwhile this experience has been. He is a young and vulnerable person who should never of been 'used' in this way. Never, and I am disgusted by your behaviour Anthony.

The really shameful thing in all of this is that all I am really achieving here is providing you (Anthony), with another platform to prance about and pull off another one of your peacock displays. Yes in my opinion your ego has the better of you and shame on you for that!

I do not need to be a part of a community where the man in charge is abusing his position of power. Doesn't that contradict the aim of the site, empowerment by sharing and learning about each others' experiences? Not someone who is so lead by their own ego that they feel they can heal another by mere self experience and research. You have no right to take that position. No right at all, especially if you do genuinely care about the welfare of others. Perhaps you have lost site of your real objective? Or was your real objective effected by an out of control personality trait called, the ego?

I have watched you time and time again launch attacks on people on the forum who you believe are challenging you. Perhaps, you should continue looking inwards before you start trying to fix people?

I only hope that this lovely young man is not further damaged by your inexperienced and poorly executed amateur dramatics performance.

I have learned much from this forum and I have learned some from you Anthony, but that does not mean that you are always right. Even as the owner of this site! You have behaved poorly and with a lack of true insight in this instance.

I will miss all of the wonderful people that I have hooked up with on here. There are some fabulous souls and you should all be very proud of the wonderful and beautiful people that you are, all of you! I am proud to have virtually met some of you. Thank you for assisting me on my journey, I could not have got this far without your input! I am ready to fly the nest and I just cannot sit by and watch what I see on here sometimes.

I have thought about this and I am not choosing lightly! As I have said before, the right thing is sometimes the hardest thing to do. A lesson I am prepared to repeat if it means standing up for what I believe in.

I am still on my journey and I will make it to a great place, I really will! Believe in yourselves and see what I have seen in all of you, a lovely communicative, assisting, loving, caring, learning community.

Thank you for your warmth and kindness.

Signing out!

Vicky xxx