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RockRapDubstep
04/09/18 8:24:17 PM
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For those of you who don't know I was raped and beaten outside of my apartment a bit over a year ago. I cut ties with everyone, became extremely agoraphobic, severely depressed, and gained severe anxiety and even paranoia. Even having someone knock on my door would cause me to go lock myself in the bedroom or bathroom.

I spent a year moping, going into a downward spiral, dropped to 90~ lbs, and didn't interact with anyone. Awhile back I started trying to fix that. Getting out just to for walks, maybe getting a dog or something, and then buy a gaming headset and try to start talking to people safely over the internet.
I was doing good with the short walks for awhile but now I'm getting reclusive again and never did the rest. I feel my depression sinking worse than before and I don't know what to do.

No friends, no family, my gf broke up with me a few months after it happened, no money, no insurance so I can't even see anyone. Really just starting to wonder why I'm even trying.
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Kid_Buu
04/09/18 8:26:44 PM
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sorry TC... *hugs*
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Ben_Ruggiero
04/09/18 8:28:01 PM
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Guy or girl?
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Sariana21
04/09/18 8:28:34 PM
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There likely is some sort of a help line in your community whether you have insurance or not. Try to find it so that you can get some help. There ARE resources out there. Don't give up on yourself.
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JustMonika
04/09/18 8:28:38 PM
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Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?
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Orthopox12
04/09/18 8:29:39 PM
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Im sorry someone hurt you like that, Im afraid to give yoy advice simply because I have not experienced what you have.
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HotMaladorianAI
04/09/18 8:30:44 PM
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I remember you posting about this a few months ago and wouldn't suggest you go through it again since a solid portion of users didn't believe you and thought you were a gimmick, so this might not be a positive outlet for you.
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Smashingpmkns
04/09/18 8:32:19 PM
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Have you ever thought of applying for government aid?
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Ben_Ruggiero
04/09/18 8:33:03 PM
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JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?
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Still__Rippin
04/09/18 8:34:03 PM
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You say you dont know what to do, but you do know because you are aware you are currently doing the opposite of what you should do. Going back to old hermit like habits wont help at all and will only serve to drag you backwards. Look at it this way, it already happened, the chances it will ever happen again are astronomically low. You really just have to step by step out yourself back out there and use this experience to empower you and embrace it rather than trying to run from it and hold you back. Set some small goals for yourself and each day work towards checking them off until you feel more and more comfortable doing bigger and better things
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TheVipaGTS
04/09/18 8:35:45 PM
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Ben_Ruggiero posted...
JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?

why does it?
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LockeMonster
04/09/18 8:37:28 PM
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I'm sorry if you don't want to talk about this, but can you provide more information on how it happened and what city this was in?

That's very scary and I'm very sorry you went through this. If you need someone to talk to, I'm here.

Have you ever thought about just leaving your area and going somewhere else to start over?
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MabusIncarnate
04/09/18 8:37:56 PM
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HotMaladorianAI posted...
I remember you posting about this a few months ago and wouldn't suggest you go through it again since a solid portion of users didn't believe you and thought you were a gimmick, so this might not be a positive outlet for you.

This, and there's already a couple of the CE toxic in this thread waiting to pounce. I don't think this is the right place to seek help or advice for something like this. I don't see anything positive coming from it.
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kingdrake2
04/09/18 8:38:30 PM
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CE is here for you.
and the government aid thing is a possibility you can qualify for.
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nevershine
04/09/18 8:40:33 PM
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I'm really sorry that this happened to you, and I hope you seek out legit help.
Maybe a hot line or something so you've got someone to talk to about this, or they can at least provide other resources you can use.
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Ben_Ruggiero
04/09/18 8:41:17 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?

why does it?

I'm just curious how a man gets raped by another man right in front of his apartment.
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PhazonReborn
04/09/18 8:41:49 PM
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Seek help outside CE man
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ave1
04/09/18 8:44:20 PM
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Well, if the victim is a guy, the homosexual act of the rapist on his heterosexual self might need to be taken into account when providing counsel... While if this is a lesbian girl who had a girlfriend who broke up with her, she might need different advice to handle this... Very different if you think about it.
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kingdrake2
04/09/18 8:46:10 PM
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PhazonReborn posted...
Seek help outside CE man


i'm all for this advise but shrinks cost money. therapy does work.
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PhazonReborn
04/09/18 8:51:56 PM
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kingdrake2 posted...
PhazonReborn posted...
Seek help outside CE man


i'm all for this advise but shrinks cost money. therapy does work.

This place is not what he really needs
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RockRapDubstep
04/09/18 9:17:19 PM
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Instead of quoting everyone I'll just say thanks to those offering support.
As for looking into my options and resources available to me I was trying to do that before I started declining again. I don't know anything about that stuff so I'm having to figure it out all out, particularly with government assistance stuff, I'm completely ignorant.

To the guy obsessing over if I'm a guy or a girl, and to the other guy just curious what happened. I'm a male, in the Dallas area, really small (5'3"), and there were two men about average build that I didn't know and weren't caught. Wasn't really anything I could do given my size, I tried but ended up with a broken jaw, wrist, some ribs, among other things.
Don't know who did it or why they did it. I'm not in a financial situation where I can move right now so I'm stuck here. And to those pointing out the stats that it probably wouldn't happen again, I'm well aware of that. Logically I know there's basically a 0% chance of anything like that happening again, but that's not how crippling agoraphobia and anxiety work. It's not based on logic.

And I remember some people being assholes in the last topic but there was more good than bad and CE is my only social outlet. I was trying to work up to using my voice in online games but I need a headset and more importantly to get over my crippling anxiety about it before I can. I figured that'd be a good first step but I failed pretty quickly.

Professional help is what I need but I can't afford it or find anything. I found two local support groups but they were both female only to be a safe space for women.

Finding it hard to get out of bed most days or even summon the will power to try.

Also, thanks for your PM @mipond
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ChainedRedone
04/09/18 9:19:08 PM
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Ben_Ruggiero posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?

why does it?

I'm just curious how a man gets raped by another man right in front of his apartment.


Probably by being overpowered. That wasn't so hard, was it?
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Ben_Ruggiero
04/09/18 9:21:56 PM
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ChainedRedone posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?

why does it?

I'm just curious how a man gets raped by another man right in front of his apartment.


Probably by being overpowered. That wasn't so hard, was it?

Unless he was unconscious or there was more than one person yea I'd say it would be pretty damn hard
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Slip-N-Slide
04/09/18 9:22:12 PM
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Ben_Ruggiero posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?

why does it?

I'm just curious how a man gets raped by another man right in front of his apartment.

You're a massive piece of shit for saying something like that.
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Zikten
04/09/18 9:22:19 PM
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I hope you can find help. there has to be some kind of free program you can use. have you just tried talking to a social worker and asking for advice? maybe they know of a program you weren't aware of
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uwnim
04/09/18 9:26:18 PM
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Ben_Ruggiero posted...

Unless he was unconscious or there was more than one person yea I'd say it would be pretty damn hard

He's 5'3" that's a lot smaller than an average male, so even one person should have been able to overpower TC. He says there were two though, so that makes it pretty much impossible for TC to have done anything.
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Ben_Ruggiero
04/09/18 9:28:37 PM
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uwnim posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...

Unless he was unconscious or there was more than one person yea I'd say it would be pretty damn hard

He's 5'3" that's a lot smaller than an average male, so even one person should have been able to overpower TC. He says there were two though, so that makes it pretty much impossible for TC to have done anything.

Then I rest my case. I probably wouldn't be able to defend myself against two guys either especially being that small.
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powerman1426
04/09/18 9:31:55 PM
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Ben_Ruggiero posted...
ChainedRedone posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?

why does it?

I'm just curious how a man gets raped by another man right in front of his apartment.


Probably by being overpowered. That wasn't so hard, was it?

Unless he was unconscious or there was more than one person yea I'd say it would be pretty damn hard

Nice victim blaming. Shut the fuck up
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ShotgunSilencer
04/09/18 9:33:09 PM
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Just search google for medical assistance in your county. The website will give you all the information you need and point you in the right direction.
There is a lot of help out there, especially for mental and emotional conditions. I just helped my brother get all set up with that stuff. He has really bad anxiety and no money.
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Virus731
04/09/18 9:38:38 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?

why does it?


CE in a nutshell.
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Slip-N-Slide
04/10/18 9:56:24 AM
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powerman1426 posted...
Nice victim blaming. Shut the fuck up

This.
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ave1
04/10/18 10:01:25 AM
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Carry mace around with you. You can definitely gain confidence back if you have a way of defending yourself.
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bulletproofvita
04/10/18 10:21:58 AM
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I'm sorry to hear that TC. Yes it's crippling and there is not much any of us can say because we can't change your life. Try to find hope even if it seems there's no future.
Online gaming is a start, it's safe and there are plenty of friends waiting for you.
Also we are here to hear you vent or anything you would like to share.
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RockRapDubstep
04/11/18 11:21:04 AM
#34:


Excluding that other guy, thanks everyone. If I'm not responding to you directly its because all I have to say is thanks.

Zikten posted...
I hope you can find help. there has to be some kind of free program you can use. have you just tried talking to a social worker and asking for advice? maybe they know of a program you weren't aware of

No but I kind of struggle to talk to people so I don't know if I'd even be able to. Even online I have trouble let alone on the phone or in person.

ShotgunSilencer posted...
Just search google for medical assistance in your county. The website will give you all the information you need and point you in the right direction.
There is a lot of help out there, especially for mental and emotional conditions. I just helped my brother get all set up with that stuff. He has really bad anxiety and no money.

I'll try doing that again. Issue will be calling or making myself go. It's impossible to explain to someone who hasn't experienced agoraphobia what it's like because it should be so easy. I don't fully understand it myself.

ave1 posted...
Carry mace around with you. You can definitely gain confidence back if you have a way of defending yourself.

I have some and went for walks with it a few times and I think it was stressing me out more, like making me think of a bunch of situations that I know wouldn't happen so I started going for walks without it since those are the feelings I'm trying to stop. But it's better than what someone in the last topic suggested, which was a gun. That likely wouldn't go very well.
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JustMonika
04/11/18 11:24:35 AM
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Do you attend any sort of therapy or victim counseling?
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RockRapDubstep
04/11/18 11:33:01 AM
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Really just feeling like I'm a broken person beyond repair. Been over a year and I can't even handle a random knock at the door without freaking out and I don't even know what I'm actually freaked out about in the first place. Yet I was a relatively normal person before all this. Maybe some occasional like anxiety or something but nothing major or even worthy of medication. Had friends, some family, a girlfriend. Now I don't have any of that and can't even speak to someone over the internet well in a direct conversation.

A couple Christian fundamentalists in the family basically disowned me over it, my mom was really supportive in the first few months but I guess she eventually had enough of me not going to events like holidays and stuff, not calling, I even skipped out on a family friends funeral. Same things with friends and my gf. I never told my friends though, only the police, my mom, and girlfriend at the time since I couldn't exactly not since I was hospitalized at the time.

I guess at least a good portion of this is on me, can't blame anyone else for me alienating everyone.

I'm sure others could but I'm feeling like I can't come back from this, the fact that it fucked me over so much that I went from being what I was to what I am now. I want things to be the same again, which they can't be, but even close would be good enough, but I don't feel like it'll happen.
Which again I guess my own attitude is part of the problem here, can't blame anyone else for that.
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JustMonika
04/11/18 11:36:28 AM
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RockRapDubstep posted...
I guess at least a good portion of this is on me

No it isn't. None of this is your fault, you need to try not to think like that.

You can try talking to the national sexual assault hotline, if you don't think you can manage visiting a group or therapist.

I don't know if you live in the states or not.
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RockRapDubstep
04/11/18 11:38:09 AM
#38:


JustMonika posted...
Do you attend any sort of therapy or victim counseling?

I went to therapy one time after it happened, my mom paid. I felt guilty about my mom paying and they wanted to put me on expensive medication as well and I just didn't like the lady, didn't like talking about it, or anything.

I was going to see a Christian counselor, not because of the Christian part but because she offered a free service but she retired.

The only two support groups I found locally searching were for women only.

Plus even just getting out of the house to go is a hurdle itself.
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RockRapDubstep
04/11/18 11:40:44 AM
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JustMonika posted...
RockRapDubstep posted...
I guess at least a good portion of this is on me

No it isn't. None of this is your fault, you need to try not to think like that.

You can try talking to the national sexual assault hotline, if you don't think you can manage visiting a group or therapist.

I don't know if you live in the states or not.

I know that me thinking about it like that is part of the problem so then I just get stuck in a mental loop of me being the problem. Not sure how to stop that, which then just makes it worse.

I guess I could try that, might just end up hanging up though but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try at least.
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Dyinglegacy
04/11/18 11:41:31 AM
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Sorry, TC. If I could heinously murder the perpetrators for you, and get away it, I would.
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JustMonika
04/11/18 11:44:26 AM
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RockRapDubstep posted...
I guess I could try that, might just end up hanging up though but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try at least.

Yeah and it's alright if you hang up, just keep trying as many times as it takes.
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The-Apostle
04/11/18 11:47:41 AM
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Ben_Ruggiero posted...
ChainedRedone posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
JustMonika posted...
Ben_Ruggiero posted...
Guy or girl?

Why does that even matter?

Why wouldn't it matter?

why does it?

I'm just curious how a man gets raped by another man right in front of his apartment.


Probably by being overpowered. That wasn't so hard, was it?

Unless he was unconscious or there was more than one person yea I'd say it would be pretty damn hard


He's 5'3. I'm sure it's really not that hard.
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