u/Calanthetheranger

That's it. That's the post. An unrelated group I was in on Facebook basically got taken over by Christians who just spammed religious crap 24/7, in direct, intentional violation of the rules of the group, but nobody did anything, and when me and some other folks asked them nicely to abide by the rules and stick to appropriate topics, then they called me an agent of Satan and told me they'd enjoy seeing me burn in hell etc.

I responded and said I have a great deal of religious trauma and would appreciate if they just followed the rules of the group and didn't violate that boundary for me personally. The response to that was that my mental health is my problem not theirs and they can say whatever they want, along with a bunch of other condescending insulting things, mocking me for it even.

They are the worst people on the planet for real. Just leave people alone! It's not that hard to be a good person, but guess they'd rather trigger someone on purpose than follow rules that exist for a reason. I hate them honestly.

I really take issue with how this is handled. Awhile back, I had to report something that happened to me to an organization that functions like our HR. To get them to better understand the impact this situation had on me, I had to bring up the fact that I have diagnosed complex PTSD because of some pretty horrific child abuse I went through. Well because they are mandated reporters, next thing I know, there's a cop at my door asking me a bunch of invasive questions about abuse that happened 20 years ago that I was not mentally or emotionally prepared to answer, and I do not want to talk about or get involved in a court case over. I just want to move on with my life. I spent years trying to escape my father and he stalked me for a really long time. I have had no contact in years and now they're going to go stir shit up with him again and put me back on his radar.

There was another instance where I called the cops on my friend's partner for domestic violence, asked that I be anonymous for my own safety, and they TOLD THE VIOLENT ABUSER that it was me who called and that started a whole shit storm with this person that put ME in danger.

Recently, I had a kid I work with tell me something that happened to her when she was really young, that went to court and got resolved but destroyed her family, and has caused her a lot of trauma. Well because I'm a mandated reporter I have to call the police over what she said to me, because I'm not allowed to "investigate" anything, aka look up the court case myself to ensure it actually WAS taken care of, so I risk re-traumatizing this kid by having the cops show up, upset her and her family that is trying to rebuilt.

I feel like the way this is handled is really not good for the people involved.

Obviously the point of mandated reporting is to keep people safe but what is the point if it makes everything worse, the cops bungle it and further traumatize people already being victimized, or the person is put even more at risk by that report being made?

Surely there's a better way to do this, right?