A while ago I wrote that I had written a problematic email to a friend at my school while I was supposedly asleep having taken Ambien. Though I apologized to her, got off Ambien, and went back to as normal as possible, at least at school in terms of not bothering her anymore, even as extreme as not interacting at all, she has been unable to accept my apology or explanation that I was triggered and on medication at the time.

So she got started up a "vendetta" against me. First, even though we had two weeks afterwards with friendly interactions that were professional, she turned over the problematic email to her supervisor, which ended up with my being dismissed from the clinical site where I was working.

That caused me to have to go before a committee at school to check on the situation. But she took advantage of that and made it even worse by at the last minute adding a complaint against me that the committee will have to also consider.

She didn't stop there. I'm pretty sure she's bad mouthed me to my own professors and other students that used to like me.

Then out of the blue, after weeks of no contact, even though we share two classes, she verbally attacked me for 20 minutes, both personal things raised loudly in a public area, most of them distortions or false. She said 3 times that she wanted me out of her classes, maybe out of the program all together, and would not stop until that happened.

It was hostile and aggressive and intentionally designed to intimidate and threaten me. When I told her that she couldn't do this to me, that the University had rules and procedures and that is how it should be handled, she yelled that it wasn't happening fast enough and she would pursue it regardless of the University.

She cornered me at one point after all of this and launched into very private information I had revealed to her because we were once friends. She did this in public, stepped forward, is quite a bit taller than I am, and was clearly very hostile so I "froze" unable to move or speak.

While I wrote an account later on to the Program Director, the Program Director doesn't know me and only knows the other student's account in terms of a complaint against me so she dismissed even my desire to raise it, which was really upsetting because I felt unsafe and needed the University to respond to an urgent matter.

Finally after writing again, taking a whole week off from classes where I let other faculty know that I had been attacked but didn't mention names, the Program Director got back to me and said the University had hired an outside investigator to look into my claims.

I have to meet with the investigator on Thursday. I also have to meet with the committee involved in my dismissal on Tuesday. And I'm totally stressed out. The attack made me have diarrhea, vomiting, lack of sleep or ability to concentrate and I'm also a full week behind.

I wrote up accounts for both meetings so I don't have to do it as much in person, to protect myself, but I am very preoccupied by this, and having a really hard time. I'm hoping for the best, but they do now know about my history with PTSD and may think I am not suited for work in psychology, even though I have done so well so far and this whole thing is due to one student who is immature, not in therapy, and has something against me. Help!