So I was Robbed Monday...

I work for a payday loan company in Texas and Monday I was robbed......it scared the shit out of me. He took all of our cash...a little over 4grand....I was tripping so bad.

so the reason im writing this is....I cant sleep and I get up like ten times a night just to make sure all the windows and doors are locked...I make sure Lailah is okay and all that. Then every little noise in the house (old house it creaks) scares me and i think someone is coming in. I dont like leaving the house cause I get these panick attacks and i cant breathe. when im in public I go crazy cause every person i see i try to see if its him. and its so weird cause if it were to be him i would pass out right there.....I dont know how to fix this and if i dont fix this soon.....Im gonna go insane. Javo has been great and helping me through this. I mean hell i was robbed.......so if any of you ladies have some kind of advice for me i would really appreciate it. I need your help.

thank you

Tera            

bump.....Ladies please help me.........i have no one to talk to about this...everyone just tells me im overeacting....(sp?) someone give me some advice

i don't think you are overreacting... i would probably be the same way only because im paranoid as it is. I really don't have much to say. Maybe try and be around people. and not be alone. =/ I hope it gets better for you though

I don't think you are over reacting...I do think you are going thru a type of Post traumatic stress.

So the only advice i can give since i have never been in your shoes in this case is medical advice....talk to your doctor and tell them about your ordeal and how it has affected you....and see if they can do anything to help...albeit prescribe medication...or set you up with a therapist.

hope you feel better though....it's scary I'm sure.

lightfey wrote: I don't think you are over reacting...I do think you are going thru a type of Post traumatic stress.

So the only advice i can give since i have never been in your shoes in this case is medical advice....talk to your doctor and tell them about your ordeal and how it has affected you....and see if they can do anything to help...albeit prescribe medication...or set you up with a therapist.

hope you feel better though....it's scary I'm sure.

I agree and the company will be the one that has to pay for it. talk to your boss!

thanx ladies...i will talk to my boss............i just get so freaked.......i dont deal well with situations like that

  what an experience! i agree w/ the other gals - you seem to be going thru some kind of PTSD - do talk w/ ur dr. hope that ur dr will be able to help you out!

I don't think you are over-reacting. In 2002, someone tried to abduct me from a parking garage in downtown Phoenix and I still have panic attacks whenever I enter parking garages and any downtown city (if I am alone). It took me a long time to feel even semi-comfortable leaving my house and while it has been 5 years since the incident I am still as much a hermit as my husband will let me be.

Whether you are robbed, raped, abducted or even just the attempt is made and they don't succeed you are still violated and it takes time to get over something like that.

My family was the same way as yours. They told me I was over-reacting because I wasn't actually hurt or anything. In some people's minds, if you were not physically damaged by an act of violence then you should just get over it. They are sooooo wrong! Just because you may not have been physically hurt doesn't mean that you weren't scarred emotionally from the event. It still happened.

Just be patient with yourself and understand that it will get a little easier as time goes on. Try not to close yourself off too much because the more you do, the harder it is to get back out in the world.

ciiera wrote: I don't think you are over-reacting. In 2002, someone tried to abduct me from a parking garage in downtown Phoenix and I still have panic attacks whenever I enter parking garages and any downtown city (if I am alone). It took me a long time to feel even semi-comfortable leaving my house and while it has been 5 years since the incident I am still as much a hermit as my husband will let me be.

Whether you are robbed, raped, abducted or even just the attempt is made and they don't succeed you are still violated and it takes time to get over something like that.

My family was the same way as yours. They told me I was over-reacting because I wasn't actually hurt or anything. In some people's minds, if you were not physically damaged by an act of violence then you should just get over it. They are sooooo wrong! Just because you may not have been physically hurt doesn't mean that you weren't scarred emotionally from the event. It still happened.




Just be patient with yourself and understand that it will get a little easier as time goes on. Try not to close yourself off too much because the more you do, the harder it is to get back out in the world.

thank you....all of you..........i hope that my family can at least be a bit more supportive

Awww. I feel bad for you. I agree talk to your doctor so you can get some help.

i was robbed september 14th of last year at the bank i worked at i was the teller he robbed the onlything that is gonna help you get over this is therapy and its going to take a loong time i just got a summons to go to court for his sentencing and the memories still came back you really need to see a psychiatrist to talk about it. your job should provide that.