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Cashew: Yeah, it's possible I misheard some of the words, but the death threats and the harassment have been palpably real.
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joeylittle
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I'm sorry, @skiestreeslakes - but you aren't describing any of this in a way that makes sense. As @FridayJones said, either they are happening in real time, you are in the house, you hear them, and you go find the source - (people, TV, whatnot) OR they are memories of something that actually happened to you (is that what you believe?) OR they are hallucination (what did your doctor say?)
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You wrote that your father threatened to kill you, you mention a divorce, but then you also live with them together?
If you are living with people - do they hear/get these harassing threats too? Is it just you? If friends come over, do they hear the same things? If so, then it would help your case with law enforcement. It might be even worth inviting a trusted friend to stay with you for a bit to help sort out where the threats are coming from and have another witness and source of support.
What about using your phone or a tape recorder to record the threats? This might be really important to prove your case to law enforcement. They are not likely to be able to do much of anything based on what you share here: threats in your house from an unknown source.
I would highly suggest recording the threats and playing them for others, and see if they can help you figure out the cause of them and what to do.
Is there any prescribed or in prescribed drug use occurring in the household or in your own life? Some of the threats include comments about drug use. Prescribed medications or other drugs can cause all kinds of freaky things to happen.
I highly recommend a neurological evaluation and to see a psychiatrist. Not just a general therapist. If you are concerned you have PTSD, then any good trauma therapist should be able to address what is happening and help sort it out with you.
You wrote that therapy an address the symptoms but not the cause - but that is incorrect. Therapy can and typically does address both. What does your therapist say is the cause of your symptoms or the cause of these threats? If they don't have any ideas, get another therapist! This is scary stuff to be dealing with and not something a therapist should ignore addressing the cause of this.
You could contact the police, and they could investigate as to what the cause of these harassing statement are and help you get help to deal with them.
However, I would first try to get more evidence by tape recording the threats (heck even most computers can video record and that should pick up the sound of the verbal threats being made in someone's home.) I would also really highly recommend talking to your doctor and therapist first before taking that big step as it is often a traumatizing system for people to engage. They will likely question you much more than we are here.
If these are auditory hallucinations as some suggest, they will feel as real as anything else. When someone is having auditory hallucinations, which is more common than most people think, the brain fires in a way where the sounds heard will feel as real as real life. The brain fires in the same way as it would hearing actual music or talking or etc. It could be a sign of things such as a brain tumor and combined with the confusing way you write, which would likely be atypical for you, there is much cause to talk to a doctor about this.
If there are threats coming from a person or persons, then all the more reason to get a good doctor and a good therapist to support you through the process of engaging law enforcement and moving out and getting safe and away from the person(s) making these strange and clearly scary threats.
If you are living with people - do they hear/get these harassing threats too? Is it just you? If friends come over, do they hear the same things? If so, then it would help your case with law enforcement. It might be even worth inviting a trusted friend to stay with you for a bit to help sort out where the threats are coming from and have another witness and source of support.
What about using your phone or a tape recorder to record the threats? This might be really important to prove your case to law enforcement. They are not likely to be able to do much of anything based on what you share here: threats in your house from an unknown source.
I would highly suggest recording the threats and playing them for others, and see if they can help you figure out the cause of them and what to do.
Is there any prescribed or in prescribed drug use occurring in the household or in your own life? Some of the threats include comments about drug use. Prescribed medications or other drugs can cause all kinds of freaky things to happen.
I highly recommend a neurological evaluation and to see a psychiatrist. Not just a general therapist. If you are concerned you have PTSD, then any good trauma therapist should be able to address what is happening and help sort it out with you.
You wrote that therapy an address the symptoms but not the cause - but that is incorrect. Therapy can and typically does address both. What does your therapist say is the cause of your symptoms or the cause of these threats? If they don't have any ideas, get another therapist! This is scary stuff to be dealing with and not something a therapist should ignore addressing the cause of this.
You could contact the police, and they could investigate as to what the cause of these harassing statement are and help you get help to deal with them.
However, I would first try to get more evidence by tape recording the threats (heck even most computers can video record and that should pick up the sound of the verbal threats being made in someone's home.) I would also really highly recommend talking to your doctor and therapist first before taking that big step as it is often a traumatizing system for people to engage. They will likely question you much more than we are here.
If these are auditory hallucinations as some suggest, they will feel as real as anything else. When someone is having auditory hallucinations, which is more common than most people think, the brain fires in a way where the sounds heard will feel as real as real life. The brain fires in the same way as it would hearing actual music or talking or etc. It could be a sign of things such as a brain tumor and combined with the confusing way you write, which would likely be atypical for you, there is much cause to talk to a doctor about this.
If there are threats coming from a person or persons, then all the more reason to get a good doctor and a good therapist to support you through the process of engaging law enforcement and moving out and getting safe and away from the person(s) making these strange and clearly scary threats.
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justmehere: Thanks. My father moved out after the divorce about a month ago. For a while he was yelling every day. There were a few days when I had to lock myself in my childhood bedroom (I'm in my early thirties) and call the police. Sometimes he would throw himself against the door, break the door open, and threaten me.
The harassment is something else. Maybe it's my parents' neighbors. I don't know.
The therapist I had tried visiting for a few weeks handed me a pamphlet from an organization called the International Center Against the Abuse of Covert Technologies that mentions "patients with radio emitting chips in their bodies." But my instinct is to not believe that. Maybe the therapist was unprofessional?
I'm going to have a follow-up appointment with a doctor, an MD, in August. Maybe I'll bring it up then.
The harassment is something else. Maybe it's my parents' neighbors. I don't know.
The therapist I had tried visiting for a few weeks handed me a pamphlet from an organization called the International Center Against the Abuse of Covert Technologies that mentions "patients with radio emitting chips in their bodies." But my instinct is to not believe that. Maybe the therapist was unprofessional?
I'm going to have a follow-up appointment with a doctor, an MD, in August. Maybe I'll bring it up then.
Ditch that, girl. The 'covert technologies' whatever it is.
Focus on healing the very real scars from your recent abuse by your father, not flashbacking to him & not being so startled by all sort of noise, if something else is going on? You can worry about that when you're stabilized and well able to think.
Focus on healing the very real scars from your recent abuse by your father, not flashbacking to him & not being so startled by all sort of noise, if something else is going on? You can worry about that when you're stabilized and well able to think.
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I'm troubled by this thread, and want other staff to take a look at it. Temporarily closing.
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@skiestreeslakes, I have read this thread, and perplexed by your disjointed comments, somewhere between trolling and schizophrenic writing. You need to start clarifying things quickly or you leave me little choice other than to remove you from this site. I'm sorry, but you're posting is not making a lot of sense for an apparent 30 year old male, who is claiming possible PTSD from what is apparently hateful words said to you, which you don't know whether are real, not real, said outside or inside your house, or whether directed at you.
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It truly souns like you are hearing voices in your head.
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I turned to this site mostly for advice on how to deal with something that might be PTSD. Advice on how to take your mind off the harassing comments.
This isn't "trolling" or "schizophrenic" writing. It's strange, but I think it's real, and I'm not joking.
I was forced to move back with my parents after a layoff during the recession, and that's why a guy in his thirties would be dealing with these issues. (Google "How I ended up living with my in-laws"). First, there's the yelling, abusive dad, and second, the harassing comments from, I guess, outside, possibly from the neighbors or the surrounding neighborhood…
This isn't "trolling" or "schizophrenic" writing. It's strange, but I think it's real, and I'm not joking.
I was forced to move back with my parents after a layoff during the recession, and that's why a guy in his thirties would be dealing with these issues. (Google "How I ended up living with my in-laws"). First, there's the yelling, abusive dad, and second, the harassing comments from, I guess, outside, possibly from the neighbors or the surrounding neighborhood…
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Thank you for the clarification, it is appreciated.
Why do you feel people are yelling abuse at you? Was this abuse being yelled towards the house prior to you moving in? Is this neighbours or such arguing and you're confusing the abuse as being directed at you? Do they say your name specifically? If so, you obviously know them to some degree, as they know you, if the case.
Why do you feel people are yelling abuse at you? Was this abuse being yelled towards the house prior to you moving in? Is this neighbours or such arguing and you're confusing the abuse as being directed at you? Do they say your name specifically? If so, you obviously know them to some degree, as they know you, if the case.
joeylittle
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I think the questions you are getting (from people with PTSD) have to do with this statement I've quoted. If you are remembering snippets of past events, that's one thing. If you're hearing real-time harassment in real life, that's another. Those two things will be addressed very differently, and it's hard to give you advice without knowing as many specifics as possible.
Boy I have something to throw out there- I heard one sentence auditory at 15 yrs old(intense stress) and one sentence auditory at 17years old(constant life and death trauma-6hrs a day). Then at 19 started hearing continuously-drove me crazy-thought i might have schizophrenia-went to tons of doctors, had a suicide attempt and was in ICU 3 days then the psych hospital a month; intensive, intensive testing-MRI's-they thought it might be head injury then intensive psychiatric testing-they told me it was a very bad case of PTSD. "the worst case they had seen" that was years ago. I later found out that you can have PTSD with psychotic symptoms and that 30% or so of vets get that. But they (medical/psych) have a debate going on about because they feel that the auditory/physical... hallucinations are actually dissociative in nature and not psychotic. I have read they feel it is common in people(civilians)who have been sexually abused. I know from my experience it is more frequent with increased stress and goes away in low stress times; for years with only an occasional sentence. So I am thinking that possibly it could be PTSD maybe. I definately recommend testing and lots of medical/psych testing/evaluation and so you know there are meds and mine went away for awhile; 13 years or so and now it doesn't bother me as much. Any thought from anyone? It was torture for 7 years; absolute torture- If you look up dissociative PTSD on the internet or PTSD with psychotic symptoms. I went to a psychologist for a second opinion-MPD later changed to PTSD and 2 other psychs said PTSD but just yesterday a psychiatrist said bipolar so I don't know-... My heart goes out to you!!!!!
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