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A Almost Home Invasion

ristaystrong2
ristaystrong2

My Anxiety has spiked so high recently again that I'm having trouble wanting to talk with people I usually talk with, I feel more Irritable and I'm picking my eyelashes and biting my nails again a lot, and it's cause my anxiety is so high because this guy at 3 am a few days ago came to our apartment and tried to break in he banged on our window really hard telling us to let him in and when my stepdad yelled at him to go away through the window he just banged on it harder and we had to call the police although he left before the police could come and the police had told us to call them back if he came back now every night at the apartment I have trouble falling asleep because I'm afraid some random guy is gonna come swearing and banging on our window this guy was clearly drunk and he had said he started banging on the window cause he saw the light on so now I'm afraid to turn my light on at night. I don't know what to do cause my anxiety is so high and it just won't go down. 

arfie
arfie
You are already doing what I would do about it, Rista. Sharing about whatever is triggering my anxiety on any given round goes a long way toward getting it out of my head and into realistic proportions.

Did making this post help any?

Calming support while you work it through, Rista. Keep sharing.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Whew, that would spike anybody's anxiety. For one of us with chronic PTSD, I can understand why it would stay there.

I live 4 doors down from a bar, so drunks abound by my windows, too. Last night when I went to take my trash out and put it by the curb there was another one, right there on the sidewalk staggering toward me. My brain knows they're trying to stagger past me toward the bar to get their final load on, but my heart skips a beat anyway every time.

Glad you called the cops and there's a police report on file about that guy, just in case he comes back. Pounding on a window like he did is something he should be discouraged from doing again.
soulsearcher83
soulsearcher83
I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. I had an almost home invasion once too literally within 3 hours of moving to a new place. I was the first to move in, waiting on the rest of my roommates, so I was alone. I fell asleep on the couch and woke up to noise in the kitchen. The landlord had propped open the window with a wood plank. A guy was trying to crawl in. I was so out of it because I just woke up. I walked into the kitchen and said, "hello?" very confused. The guy said, "Is Pete home?" "Who?" I said. I couldn't see his face but after I said that, he ran and the window crashed down, the wood falling on the floor. I was freaked. Ran to the new neighbor to call the police and the landlord.

We didn't have any issues after that.

You said the guy was drunk. Maybe he picked the wrong house, thinking he was at someone elses. Hard to say.

You can get inexpensive security cameras that route to an app on your phone. This isn't the one I was considering mounting on my van but same idea.

https://www.amazon.com/Security-Waterproof-Surveillance-Detection-Supported/dp/B07B9WNBBT/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1541881022&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=outdoor+security+camera&psc=1

If it helps with peace of mind, why not? But it sounds like it was a one time occurance of a stupid and confused drunk.
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