CaliforniaLyme
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Just so you guys know, this happened before to Georgia, and it is happening to me now- someone on sci.med is posting obscene and political stuff under the name CaliforniaLyme (but if you examine their login they are actually CaliforniaLyme1 AT aol.com and I am CaliforniaLyme AT cs.com!!!). ANywayz, it is not me and is very distressing so if anyone just pops over there and sees posts by me that are off-topic and many offensive to many- please disregard them- thank you!!!!!! Because they are NOT by me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best wishes, the real, the first CaliforniaLyme Sarah AT cs.com
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CaliforniaLyme
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p.s. If you want to help! Their screen name is CaliforniaLyme1 AT aol.com
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You may use the following posting as an example of the obscenity being posted (in my name) by an AOL member on a disease support/science newsgroup. Thank you!!!
1. CaliforniaLyme Sep 16, 11:18 am show options
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The serious readers of your posts will sense the difference in style from you and your imposter.
so be un-distressed.
the world pretty much knows who is who and what their agenda is.
this is 2005, and not the earlier years where there was less public access to information, and so visitors to sci.med...lyme will catch on quickly to whats going on.
in fact they probably knew there was a problem long before they even visited sci.med.
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Bummer! What's the original message they posted?? Didn't see it in what you posted here.
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Pocono Lyme
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California,
Don't be upset about this. This is a compliment. Flattery comes in many forms.
This happened due to the distress it causes them by you posting the truth.
Keep up the good work.
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JillF
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Wow
The imposter sure has been extremely busy. I'd have to say that this person has absolutely no life whatsoever...
And some of the posts are very odd/strange
All in all, the real CaliforniaLyme is not scary like other other one on SciMed
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CaliforniaLyme
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Yup, they were posting at the same time as I as this morning and they even posted about my husband!!! It's a good thing I got my sense of humor back- when I was really sick I had none!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHich reminds me of that article re Lyme & sense of humor!!!
From Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 160 No. 16, September 11, 2000, American Medical Association
Loss of the Sense of Humor
In mid-May, my 94-year-old father and I were discussing the significance of 0 and its impact on theoretical mathematics. Four weeks later, he was totally demented. He was taking no medication, and all routine blood and urine studies, brain imaging, and a spinal tap yielded no diagnosis. One week later, a high titer of Lyme antibody was found in a cerebrospinal fluid specimen, and the diagnosis of neuroborreliosis was unequivocally substantiated by Western blot analysis. Eight weeks after a 28-day course of intravenous ceftriaxone sodium (1 g/d), his mental function returned to an estimated 90% of his premorbid intellect. That was when I gave him a short vignette written in a humorous vein, relating to the purchase of a ballpoint pen.
I awaited his response with interest. To my disappointment, all he said was, "Where is the pen? May I see it?" I was disappointed, but replied "I'll get you the pen, but what do you think of my article?" "It was a cheap pen" was his response. "Was there anything else that occurred to you about what I have written?" I persisted. "No," he replied, "it was a cheap pen." It seemed to me that a more direct approach was needed. "Did you think my article was humorouswas it funny?" I asked. "No," he said, "I didn't think it was funny." That was when I realized that he had lost his sense of humor. This did not make any sense to me, until I read an article on humor appreciation in Brain.1
Humor is not needed for day-to-day functioning, but its absence undoubtedly dampens social interaction. A person who does not appreciate humor may feel left out of the conversation. Most of us have read a joke or seen a cartoon the "point" of which escapes us. If realization does not dawn upon us or the humor remains unexplained, it can lead to frustration and irritation. I imagine that this may well be so with persons who have lost the ability to appreciate humor because of an illness. To speak of a "center for humor" may be an oversimplification of the psychopathology involved. Loss of humor as a sequel of illness is poorly recognized, and an appreciation of this impairment is needed in the treatment of such patients.
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Kara Tyson
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I had this happen one time in a political newsgroup. the poster posed as me and posted all kinds of sexual things...
I cant stand trolls.
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looks like you've developed a "fan club." maybe more than one person on the attack.
One of several such similar experiences i've had:
after getting elected as a college class president, the loser( an "obligate winner," psychiatrically speaking) of the election orchestrated a truly vicious compaign against me for about the year i was president.
i only found out it was going on when the head of the school's newspaper, and others,virtually total strangers, privately handed me a list/"essay" of his unfounded, vicious accusations, and questions of anihilatory intent that impugned every aspect of my life. he wanted his "assasination piece" published in the school's paper with the intent to "ambush" me with this "first salvo."
His "assasination" opinion piece, having no basis in fact, was not published. Many stranger-students told how offended they were at what this guy attempted.
He never ran for another office at the college,and so far as i recall, thereafter lived a life of virtual anonymity on campus.
Initially, I was stunned, shocked... astounded, very hurt, took it personally, but eventually got through it, having gained perspective(s) of sorts.
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