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Undiagnosed Hi There, I'm A Mugging Vitcim.

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During the 1st week of September I had attempted suicide by overdosing on a box of Oxycodone tablets. The police found me in time, and obviously, I survived that. A week later, I was "mugged" walking to McDonalds with a group of friends at night time after coming back from a carnival. It was around 8:30pm and we were atleast 100m away from McDonalds when a car pulled up alongside the road and a bunch of people jumped out and raced over towards us asking us for money, drugs, smokes, alcohol etc, anything that they could think of.We denied having anything and tried to keep walking.

There was two guys and one girl, the girl grabbed onto the back of my hair and pulled me back towards her and spun me around and punched me in the face. The two guys that were there were targeting the two guys that I was with. My other friend was trying to pull the girl off of me, the next thing I remembered was waking up on the ground with one of my guy friends above me asking me if I was okay. I asked where the people had gone and apparently a car had driven past and they had fled.

We then all linked arms and tried walking to McDonalds. We got there and we sat on the closest seats, my lip and head were bleeding and my friend, Jordan, went and got me a bottle of water. Everything was fuzzy and I could hardly remember anything that had happened. I then remember my arm starting to twitch and I told my friend that we needed to call an ambulance, she said that I should just sleep it off and the next thing I knew I woke up on the McDonalds couch with two security guards standing above me, I was as confused as anything. Turns out that I had, had a seizure. I had atleast another 10 seizures before the ambulance that the security guards had called arrived.

I was admitted in the hospital over night and then had multiple CT scans the next day to make sure there was no bleed in my brain. Everything looked okay, and I was released the next day with the complete right side of my face bruised and swollen.

That's my story.
I'm posting another thread soon with a problem that I am currently having. Feel free to read and advise me on that also?

That's my story.

It's just started happening recently that I have become more on edge, and I've become more paranoid and more easily startled. I was in the front room of my house last night at about 12/1am assembling a desk with my father. My neighbours dogs started barking and I immediatley felt my heart drop, all I could think about was somebody outside my window about to climb in and kill us all. I grabbed the hammer that we were using and crawled underneath the half built desk. My dad didn't take any notice of it, but I was completely petrified. I pretty much "zoned out" and ignored what he was saying and listened outside for any sign that the "people" were getting closer.

I've started having nightmares, I had a nightmare the other night that there was somebody outside my window texting my phone, telling me that they had a knife and they were going to come in and kill me, I woke up panicked and locked my windows and turned my phones off.

Everytime that I hear my neighbours dogs bark at night time I will panic and think that somebody is outside planning killing me. Everytime I hear people walking past my house, even in the daytime I assume it's somebody going to kill me.

I don't know if this is related to the mugging, but it's starting to affect my life. I've just created an office in the front room of my house and everytime I hear a noise outside, I will leave the room and go hide in my bedroom, thinking somebody is out there waiting for me.

I don't know what to do.

I CANNOT. I put emphasis on that word, CANNOT see a psychologist/doctor/psychiatrist. I've used up all my "payed for" sessions from medicare to see a private psychologist. I also refuse, deadset refuse to see a public psychologist in the town that I live in. I've had numerous issues with them in the past when I was dealing with my depression/suicidal ideation. I'll never go back there again.
 
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Hi MehhShell, that sounds horrible, I'm sorry you had to go through that! I hope you find support and peace here. It scares me how little security guards know about first aid, lovely people though they are (the ones I work with anyway) but no first aid training whatsoever!
 
Welcome to the forum Mehhshell. You have definitely reached the right place for advice, references and people that have been through similar experiences. I invite you to look around the site and see what you find. Respectfully, Paranoid10.
 
Hi Mehhshell and Welcome,

I've used up all my "payed for" sessions from medicare to see a private psychologist.

Great system aye, just found out a week ago myself that the powers-that-be have decided as of Nov 1st, 11 visits a year is all you get now through medicare no matter your circumstance (I'd used all mine up in the last 4 months:(:cry:). They must think that you can just put all this on hold or something! (I was told by medicare that they reset as of January if thats of any help).

The other bit I don't get is how a GP can request them and my Psychiatrist can't?

Speaking of which did you know you can have your GP refer you to a Psychiatrist. Get your "private psychologist" to write a quick note to your GP suggesting the Psychiatrist you want. They are billed separate to the 11 psychologist visits.

Hope this helps, and you don't have the stress of taking the long way round because of a lack of knowledge of this like we did. Nothing worse than feeling you've ran out of help.

Hang in there,
 
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