Hi. I was dignosed with PTSD earlier this year.
My story began in early March 2016 and ended in May 2019. It's been nearly a year since the source of my trauma has moved away, but I've been gradually dealing with triggers/auditory hallucinations/and other physical and mental symptoms since then.
Basically, I was dealing with two antisocial neighbours and narcissistic abuse from the environmental health/local government whose job it was to deal with them.
The first antisocial neighbour subjected me to five months of nightly door slamming that evolved to an all day and night routine. There was a regular pattern of behaviour. There were also regular angry outbursts between him and his girlfriend. It left me physically and emotionally drained. I couldn't go to bed without the anticipatory stress of knowing that I'd be forced awake against my will. If I had plans, then I'd have to deal with their outbursts before I left the house and when I came back. My free time wasn't my own. I was living on someone else's timetable.
The environmental health/local government encouraged me to report noise to them and the police. I don't like using the phone, because of anxiety, but knew that it would be resolved quickly. The noise was so regular it wasn't even funny. However, the environmental health/local government tried to downplay the situation in their report while, at the same time, encourage me to report noise. They contradicted themselves in person and in writing, used word salad and gaslighting techniques. I knew something wasn't right, but I was too stressed and sleep deprived to see that they were a bigger problem.
The aim was to stop the noisy neighbour making noise. In the end, they weren't punished or even evicted. Instead, I was labelled with a learning difficulty because I didn't understand how their service worked. The truth, and reality, of the situation was that the environmental health/local government knew that I found it hard to use a phone - especially when the noise triggered my anxiety, over a long period of time. (I had to leave my home for a month because I was at breaking point. There was no end to the noise and it just grew worse. By then, I'd developed face and scalp ecsema too.)
The environmental health/local government weren't dealing with the problem and smeared my name and long term health. This is despite everything that happened - from a loan shark threatening my noisy neighbour outside my front door, to a 6 AM drug overdose, and finally my second noisy neighbour threatening the first noisy neighbour and his girlfriend.
The first noisy neighbour abandoned his property while I stayed with my parents for a month. When I came back home, I was greeted with a smashed entrance door to my flat/apartment. Apparently the second noisy neighbour had returned from jail, or had avoided it, and had caught up with the first noisy neighbour. I'm assuming that he didn't like his pesonal belongs being stolen. For a while, the first noisy neighbour looked after his home. One evening, I saw the first noisy neighbour carrying a widescreen tv and other stuff inside but didn't think it was suspicious at the time. I'm glad that I wasn't there to see them fight because I wouldn't have coped.
Four days after I'd resettled into my home, the trouble with the second noisy neighbour started. The same pattern of behavior continued with this guy - constant door slamming after 11 PM and domestic fights with the girlfriend. I told the environmental health/local government that I was worried about a repeat scenario. Of course, they told me to report noise to the police and hoovered me into another cycle of narcissistic abuse. I also had to deal with loud, repetitive music, dog barking, vandalism, and revving a motorcycle indoors.
The environmental health/local government claimed that the noise would only affect people living directly below the noise. Which is a hilarious excuse because I share a wall with the second noisy neighbour's property. I could hear song lyrics and loud conversation.
The repetitive music really triggered me. There wasn't anywhere in my home that I could escape it. Again, if I had plans for a night out, then I'd have to deal with the noise before and after I left the flat/apartment. The situation was so bad that I had trouble walking anywhere. I was in a lot of pain and had to make adjustments to my routine.
Meanwhile, the environmental health/local government were always short of witnessing the antisocial behaviour. There were always excuses to avoid accountability. I was also subjected to name calling and more character assassination in their reports. This is despite the fact that my second noisy neighbour had a long history of violent, antisocial behaviour in public (bars and restaurants.)
Eventually, the second noisy neighbour abandoned his property. I'd stopped reporting noise at that point and had went no contact with the narcissistic environmental health/local government. Although, that didn't stop the second noisy neighbour or the authorities trying to hoover me back in for more narcissistic abuse with dog fouling issues in the neighbourhood. I didn't play their game, which was the best thing to do, but I knew the damage had already been done.
Today, I still have difficulty going to bed at a regular time. I also have difficulty concentrating sometimes, have experienced disassociation, and have flashbacks of the mistreatment. The auditory hallucinations didn't last long, maybe three or four separate times, and I hope they don't come back. There's a lot of stuff that I haven't written here but it was really stressful and frustrating.
I hope to find like minded people here and give my support too.
My story began in early March 2016 and ended in May 2019. It's been nearly a year since the source of my trauma has moved away, but I've been gradually dealing with triggers/auditory hallucinations/and other physical and mental symptoms since then.
Basically, I was dealing with two antisocial neighbours and narcissistic abuse from the environmental health/local government whose job it was to deal with them.
The first antisocial neighbour subjected me to five months of nightly door slamming that evolved to an all day and night routine. There was a regular pattern of behaviour. There were also regular angry outbursts between him and his girlfriend. It left me physically and emotionally drained. I couldn't go to bed without the anticipatory stress of knowing that I'd be forced awake against my will. If I had plans, then I'd have to deal with their outbursts before I left the house and when I came back. My free time wasn't my own. I was living on someone else's timetable.
The environmental health/local government encouraged me to report noise to them and the police. I don't like using the phone, because of anxiety, but knew that it would be resolved quickly. The noise was so regular it wasn't even funny. However, the environmental health/local government tried to downplay the situation in their report while, at the same time, encourage me to report noise. They contradicted themselves in person and in writing, used word salad and gaslighting techniques. I knew something wasn't right, but I was too stressed and sleep deprived to see that they were a bigger problem.
The aim was to stop the noisy neighbour making noise. In the end, they weren't punished or even evicted. Instead, I was labelled with a learning difficulty because I didn't understand how their service worked. The truth, and reality, of the situation was that the environmental health/local government knew that I found it hard to use a phone - especially when the noise triggered my anxiety, over a long period of time. (I had to leave my home for a month because I was at breaking point. There was no end to the noise and it just grew worse. By then, I'd developed face and scalp ecsema too.)
The environmental health/local government weren't dealing with the problem and smeared my name and long term health. This is despite everything that happened - from a loan shark threatening my noisy neighbour outside my front door, to a 6 AM drug overdose, and finally my second noisy neighbour threatening the first noisy neighbour and his girlfriend.
The first noisy neighbour abandoned his property while I stayed with my parents for a month. When I came back home, I was greeted with a smashed entrance door to my flat/apartment. Apparently the second noisy neighbour had returned from jail, or had avoided it, and had caught up with the first noisy neighbour. I'm assuming that he didn't like his pesonal belongs being stolen. For a while, the first noisy neighbour looked after his home. One evening, I saw the first noisy neighbour carrying a widescreen tv and other stuff inside but didn't think it was suspicious at the time. I'm glad that I wasn't there to see them fight because I wouldn't have coped.
Four days after I'd resettled into my home, the trouble with the second noisy neighbour started. The same pattern of behavior continued with this guy - constant door slamming after 11 PM and domestic fights with the girlfriend. I told the environmental health/local government that I was worried about a repeat scenario. Of course, they told me to report noise to the police and hoovered me into another cycle of narcissistic abuse. I also had to deal with loud, repetitive music, dog barking, vandalism, and revving a motorcycle indoors.
The environmental health/local government claimed that the noise would only affect people living directly below the noise. Which is a hilarious excuse because I share a wall with the second noisy neighbour's property. I could hear song lyrics and loud conversation.
The repetitive music really triggered me. There wasn't anywhere in my home that I could escape it. Again, if I had plans for a night out, then I'd have to deal with the noise before and after I left the flat/apartment. The situation was so bad that I had trouble walking anywhere. I was in a lot of pain and had to make adjustments to my routine.
Meanwhile, the environmental health/local government were always short of witnessing the antisocial behaviour. There were always excuses to avoid accountability. I was also subjected to name calling and more character assassination in their reports. This is despite the fact that my second noisy neighbour had a long history of violent, antisocial behaviour in public (bars and restaurants.)
Eventually, the second noisy neighbour abandoned his property. I'd stopped reporting noise at that point and had went no contact with the narcissistic environmental health/local government. Although, that didn't stop the second noisy neighbour or the authorities trying to hoover me back in for more narcissistic abuse with dog fouling issues in the neighbourhood. I didn't play their game, which was the best thing to do, but I knew the damage had already been done.
Today, I still have difficulty going to bed at a regular time. I also have difficulty concentrating sometimes, have experienced disassociation, and have flashbacks of the mistreatment. The auditory hallucinations didn't last long, maybe three or four separate times, and I hope they don't come back. There's a lot of stuff that I haven't written here but it was really stressful and frustrating.
I hope to find like minded people here and give my support too.