Poll Was Anybody Convicted For Crimes Against You?

[ResaLock]

NO! My spouse got away with everything he did. Police even signed complaints against him once. He would hide the mail and tell me they dropped them because I was crazy. Is what he would say. One of his best friends was a lawyer.
He would tell them I was mentally ill and crazy and he would get away with it.

I was seeing a therapist for domestic violence; depression and PTSD. He used it against me in court. As though suffered have no rights.

On the incident on kidnapping/r*p* at 14. I did not even know the word r*p* at the time. I told y adoptive mother I was kidnapped and even had blood all over me when I returned home. She ignored me. That is what she did. She ignored things like that. Even her own biological daughter being sexually abused by her uncle.

Cult leader. Got away with what he did and had me targeted by many people and still continues to this day. Their cult got away with it, because of their connections. The man used to be an ex-cop. He thinks he can do whatever he wants. He even told me he was God.

 

[Vulnera_Sanentur]

As a child, I tried to report crimes against me to therapists, and when it was something not involving my parents, I told them about it. No one did anything.

As an adult, most of the crimes committed against me were during my addiction. I tried to forget them with more drugs.

The most recent one, I went to the ER to report it, and they told me that it would be over 2-4 hours before the trauma person would come talk to me. I tried to retain as much evidence as possible by not showering or changing clothes, but when they told me how long the wait was, I completely freaked out. I signed out AMA and went home. I regret not doing anything about this particular time, because either exactly or almost exactly a year later, he called me and I lost it.

It's almost exactly two years since. I'm terrified that he will call again. None of the rest of them live near me anymore (except for my father, who I avoid and am used to his triggers I suppose). But this one freaks me out the most, and I regret not reporting him the most.

 

[krimson]

I wish I could..I don't even know how that would work as my abuser was a minor at the time too, but I was much younger, he a teen. Instead, I sit and watch his life become more and more successful. I have a huge amount of anger inside me because of this. Some days I consider going to file a charge, but a part of me says I can't do that to family. Wish he had the same morals.

 

[Deleted member 25333]

My attacker is fictional. I can't report him.

 

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My attacker is fictional. I can't report him.

What do you mean your attacker is fictional, how?

 

[Deleted member 25333]

What do you mean?

I'm not sure how to explain. He doesn't exist. He's a character from an animation series.

 

[digger]

I'm not sure how to explain. He doesn't exist. He's a character from an animation series.

Please try. Is this the source of your ptsd, an attack by a fictional character?:confused: Do you mean the attack is imaginary?

 

[Deleted member 25333]

Please try. Is this the source of your ptsd, an attack by a fictional character?:confused:

I assume yes. It might depend how a person would define 'attack'. If I would chase anyone with a knife, with the intention of hurting them; I would be an attacker, right? Regardless of the outcome if I capture them and achieve my goal or not, right?

He didn't come after me with a knife, and he didn't beat me. But he took tools along with him, and he planned on using those on me. Which I didn't want, but I had told him before he got the stuff that I would do anything for him. So I had no rights anymore from that moment on.

Do you mean the attack is imaginary?

Both yes and no. Seeing as he does not exist that would make his actions imaginary, right? But I've taken, and am still taking and feeling as if it was something that happened. I mean if he had been real, and he and I would have somehow ended up in a situation like that, he would've done that to me. So in a way the attack didn't happen, but it did. Am I making sense?:unsure:

I feel as though I have no right of having PTSD:notworthy::depressed:

 

[digger]

Okay, I'm not going to let myself get drawn further into this one other than to say, if there was no attack, except in your head, there was no crime against you by anyone so you've nothing to answer this poll with, and I'm pretty sure that fictitious events don't meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD.

Are you making sense? No, and I feel more like you're taking the piss actually. There are a hell of a lot of real people on this site dealing with the very real aftermath of real attacks and abuses against them by real people.

 

[Echo]

@TheseDepravedDeeds - I am wondering (and I can only wonder) whether this fictional set-up (is it a Second Life thing or something similar?) has mirrored something that happened to you earlier in life and that is why it has so upset you? If you have a diagnosis of PTSD then you have every right to it, of course, and you don't have to explain any more than you want to. I'm sure you understand that we won't immediately get what you are talking about, but we don't have to. It is up to you to share what you want. It is just that we have very little to go on since you've only been here for a short time.

 

[Deleted member 25333]

I am wondering (and I can only wonder) whether this fictional set-up (is it a Second Life thing or something similar?) has mirrored something that happened to you earlier in life and that is why it has so upset you?

@Echo - Yeah, it's like a second life thing. I quit participating in it right after the incident happened and I hoped that would have been the end of "it" but "it" has a life on it's own. It's not something that mirrored something from my childhood or any other stage in life (Thank you for asking though)

If you have a diagnosis of PTSD then you have every right to it, of course, and you don't have to explain any more than you want to.

I'm unfortunately not diagnosed. For many years I didn't even know there was a name for everything that I was going through. I think it was only about two and a half years ago that I learnt of the term "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" by chance, and I was shocked by what I found and how accurate all of the symptoms are, as well as the realisation that there was other people who go through flashbacks and nightmares and guilt like that.

I've been trying to get a proper official diagnosis for several months now but for so far I've only ended up with a psychologist printing out a list of symptoms, asking me for each one if I had them or not. He intended to be helpful but I fear that if it's not official I will not get treatment because people will not believe I suffer from it and therefore think I don't need any help. But I don't really know on whose door to knock because no psychiatrist and no psychologist has answered my question on where and who to go to, to get the diagnosis...

I'm sure you understand that we won't immediately get what you are talking about, but we don't have to. It is up to you to share what you want. It is just that we have very little to go on since you've only been here for a short time.

I understand. I don't expect anyone to get a clear view of the picture, (so to speak) when I can't even bring myself up to call "it" by it's name and when I can't even give away bits and pieces of what makes the incident my PTSD.

 

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I think you are unlikely to get a PTSD diagnosis from anyone based on what you are saying here @TheseDepravedDeeds. Fictional events, however much you have immersed yourself in them, simply do not meet diagnostic criterion A for PTSD. I think you should probably be looking at other mental health diagnoses. There can be a crossover of symptoms for many conditions.