I recently discovered I'm harboring a lot of trauma from being catfished as a teenager. I've developed suicidal tendencies, an inability to trust people and all sorts of other attachment issues over the years and only recently discovered my experience from when I was 13 was the inciting incident for it all.

This discovery alone only helps me to some extent. I'm medicated and doing DBT, but even after all these years I still have a very unstable sense of self and low self-worth. I even broke up with my fiance recently because things got too overwhelming for me again.

I'd really love it if I could hear from someone in the same boat as me. Feel free to DM me if you don't want to share your experience in the comments.

Also, if there is any literature on this topic you can recommend I'd love to know about it too. Thank you!

There is an account on Instagram that I am 95% positive is a catfish. However, they are verified on Instagram and I am unsure what the verification process on this platform is like. Don’t you need to supply government-issued ID? Or are they very lax with checking?

I recently discovered I'm harboring a lot of trauma from being catfished as a teenager. I've developed suicidal tendencies, an inability to trust people and all sorts of other attachment issues over the years and only recently discovered my experience from when I was 13 was the inciting incident for it all.

This discovery alone only helps me to some extent. I'm medicated and doing DBT, but even after all these years I still have a very unstable sense of self and low self-worth. I even broke up with my fiance recently because things got too overwhelming for me again.

I'd really love it if I could hear from someone in the same boat as me. Feel free to DM me if you don't want to share your experience in the comments.

Also, if there is any literature on this topic you can recommend I'd love to know about it too.

Thank you!

I recently discovered I'm harboring a lot of trauma from being catfished as a teenager. I've developed suicidal tendencies, an inability to trust people and all sorts of other attachment issues over the years and only recently discovered my experience from when I was 13 was the inciting incident for it all.

This discovery alone only helps me to some extent. I'm medicated and doing DBT, but even after all these years I still have a very unstable sense of self and low self-worth. I even broke up with my fiance recently because things got too overwhelming for me again.

I'd really love it if I could hear from someone in the same boat as me. Feel free to DM me if you don't want to share your experience in the comments.

Also, if there is any literature on this topic you can recommend I'd love to know about it too.

Thank you!

I recently discovered I'm harboring a lot of trauma from being catfished as a teenager. I've developed suicidal tendencies, an inability to trust people and all sorts of other attachment issues over the years and only recently discovered my experience from when I was 13 was the inciting incident for it all.

This discovery alone only helps me to some extent. I'm medicated and doing DBT, but even after all these years I still have a very unstable sense of self and low self-worth. I even broke up with my fiance recently because things got too overwhelming for me again.

I'd really love it if I could hear from someone in the same boat as me. Feel free to DM me if you don't want to share your experience in the comments.

Also, if there is any literature on this topic you can recommend I'd love to know about it too. Thank you!

I’ve debating posting this for an hour bc I’m so embarrassed and maybe scared of the truth??

Just joined this group because I truly have no clue if I’m being catfished or not…I matched with this guy (29) about a year ago on tinder. We immediately hit it off and he asked for my number which I gladly gave after a few days. We texted for around 3 months almost every day but live 4 hours away from each other so seeing each other soon was not an option. We talked about everything in detail: intimacy, day to day life, family/how we were raised. The convo stayed SO GOOD to the point I told him I wanted to come visit him. The kicker…we never FaceTimed and I only got pictures of his lower portion (which were all very consistent). No socials because he “had a shitty past with shitty people” who he didn’t want knowing his whereabouts.

Well I made plans to go to him and told all my friends and shared my location, the full shabang. He bailed last minute for a stupid reason so I cut him off because the voice in the back of my head said this was super weird. He never asked for money or anything, just wanted to know about my day and such.

We would randomly text for a day or so maybe a few times in between then and now. Well I got wine drunk about 2 weeks ago and drunk texted him. We immediately hit it off again. All of his stories are consistent with what they were a year ago and all the photos of him I have gotten since (19 selfies) don’t show up in reverse image search. However I looked up his number and it came up as owned by a 30 year old woman….am I being an idiot?? He will dodge FaceTiming me but sends me voice memos which i know can’t be reliable.

Please ask questions if you need clarification on anything….I’ve never been in a situation like this before and want to save myself the heartache if possible bc damn is the conversation good and we have plans to meet but I’ve stated that will not be happening unless we FaceTime first to which he agrees??? Main thing is the phone number being registered to a married woman in the same state he said he lives in…..and dodging FaceTiming me obviously.