Victim of hatchet job on Facebook

30 July 2013 - 02:12 By Leonard Carr, Stephanie Dawson-Cosser
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I recognise myself inn nasty 'Rhodes confessions'. I know who writes these lies. What do I do?

SHRINK RAP

PSYCHOLOGY students receive a warning on acquisition of their first diagnostics manual.

If you read the manual and see yourself in every disorder, you're normal. If you identify only with one disorder, you know you're ill.

The confessions page, which I read in order to understand your question, is about the mundane lives of ordinary people. If you're prone to believing you're being discussed, you might be a little hypersensitive or a touch paranoid. The antidote is the realisation that you are probably not a central figure in everybody else's life. The other solution is to own up about things you feel ashamed of.

If this remains a worry, the easiest solution is to stop reading the confessions. - Leonard Carr

SUPER NANNY

You have a few options:

Post your truth on the same page.

Delete yourself from the page - why torture yourself reading it?

  • Approach the individual and find out why he is writing these malicious posts. Tell the person there will be consequences if he does not stop.
  • Report the libellous author both to Facebook and the authorities within the university, and/or the police if a personal approach fails.
  • Just hold on to the fact that you and your friends know the truth - you don't need to worry about this ''sad person's" need to vent. - Stephanie Dawson-Cosser
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