How To Deal With Being Triggered Daily At Uni?

[sabster]

Hello everyone!

So I have ptsd (child trauma from which i am dissociating & re traumatization) and someone at uni isnt helping, at all.

A guy has been posting degrading tweets about me last year for a few months in which he showed a stalkerish behaviour. He would look over people's shoulder to know my grades for example (yes). He was being rude when I tried to talk to him. He chitchats behind me to people I don't know.

Of course, as a person with PTSD I am hyper-vigilant and therefore I am the perfect victim for these kind of sick people. You can tell he gets some sort of pleasure from tormenting me.
I reported him, thanks God my university immediately dealt with the case, and for once I feel listened to, protected and respected.

The thing is that the stress and fear is still here, he is at a lot of my classes and my minds literally shuts down, I can barely work. I am afraid to go to Uni every morning, knowing I might get stalked and talked about.

How can I deal with being triggered everyday?

Thanks

 

[macca]

Welcome to the forum Sabster!

That sucks. Do you have any option at all of changing classes? Or anyone you can sit next to that might make you feel safer? I don't really know what else to suggest, however if he does anything at all, I'd be right back to the uni with it. Hoping you can find some kind of answer soon.

 

[nursenurse]

I hope you might be willing to seek some help to deal with this trigger also known as a self serving immature jerk. Don't allow his lousy behaviour to affect your privilege of going to university. What he or others think of you is of no consequence in the scheme of life, and I think you know this deep down. Most of us with or without PTSD , while knowing this, would have a hard time regardless. We all want acceptance and approval, generally to be liked by everyone. And yet we know this is impossible.

Class switch would be good. However that may not be possible so late into the semester. You have every right to be there, remember that. The university has dealt with it, and if he is behaving, then try to use positive thoughts about yourself , and imagine him in a clown suit, or better yet, with a donkey's head, because he is an a**. And seek that extra counseling. The fact that you called him on his actions shows strength. You did not cow :)

 

[sabster]

Thank you guys for your help! Seriously, I feel like I was the perfect pry for him. Things like these made me wish I didn't have ptsd because the world deffinitely doesn't make it any easier for us. I told everyone (my tutor at uni, my friends and my therapist) about him.

And as if it wasn't enough, he made rumors spread about me for calling him out. That the tweets weren't about me and that I am a crazy person, great... He also called me a psychopath in front of everyone.

Nursenurse, I do choose my schedule. At the beginning of the semester, I pick all my subjects until it looks more or less like one lol, and it's only accidental whether I happen to be in his classes or not. But I can always change my schedule within 3 weeks. And I think that's what I'll do, it's seriously hell to be in the same classroom as his. His attitude reminds me so much of the guys' who assaulted me... Doing everything behind and then telling everyone I am the crazy one. :(