I can’t figure out why these comments upset my mood so much. They came from a bunch of random internet strangers that I have never seen or met before and most likely never will. But they still got to me and I don’t know why.

I posted on a different website about problems I have been going through. Family problems, health issues, self esteem etc. The Admin of that website put me on blast and revealed everything I had ever posted about and accused me of trolling.

Following that, I was insulted by another internet person on the same website. They called me passive aggressive (although I’m not and no one had ever accused me of being such). They claimed that I was passive aggressive towards them although I’m not like that in any way at all and have never been passive aggressive.

Despite this person being the one calling me names, they made it out to be the victim and completely got everyone else on their side and other people insulted me as well.

It was awful to have my personality and my character being attacked this way by people especially as I’m going through so many problems in real life (including with my health).

The mental distress I got from this website exacerbated the way I was feeling already and contributed to the me developing depression which was diagnosed by a doctor a few months ago. I can’t get what these people said about me out of my head and my personal information and the insults are still on this website.

I’m struggling to get over it because although it was just a random internet stranger, it was also a real person who feels this way about me. It hurts to know the way I’m being perceived by someone and having negative judgment on me when I already feel so bad about myself and who I am as a person.

TLDR: Someone made negative comments about my character when I was already going through many problems. I feel very distressed about comments that were made about me on a different website. They made feel bad about myself and self conscious about the way I come across to others. I feel self conscious and I want to know how do I deal with mean internet judgements about my character?