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Old May 20, 2017, 10:13 PM
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So I'm gonna have to go into some detail, backstory stuff, for some of this to make sense... I have tried to do the TW hiding thing, but I'm on mobile, so I'm not sure it's gonna work...

There's this guy that I thought was a friend, that lately had been rubbing me the wrong way... know him from the 12 step club I go to, and for the last while, he's been showing up intoxicated and often with liquor mixed in a Gatorade bottle.

There have been instances where he had gotten loud and inappropriate while drunk, at the club. Before yesterday, recently tho, he called one of the women a (racist lang)
Possible trigger:
. When she asked him to stop and leave her alone, he got louder, and ruder, and more aggressive. When he yelled (crude lang)
Possible trigger:
one of the guys stepped in to get him to back off and leave. The guy started calling him (racist lang)
Possible trigger:
at him. That kinda died down by the next day.

Then, Thursday, thus guy posted on Facebook that people who choose suicide are (questionable term)
Possible trigger:
. I sent him a message, said for my mental health I was unfriending him and was done with him until he starts helping himself.

Yesterday, he comes to the club, and immediately starts with "I'm sorry you misuderstood..." I cut him off, and said I didn't and that I wasn't going to have that conversation. He kept going, and I said you are drunk, I'm not doing this. He starts into with "when was the last time you [self injured], hippocrit?" At some point during this, the guys I was sitting with just got up and went inside, and left me by myself with him. I went inside, visibly shaking, and basically said that if he keeps at it, to call the cops.

He came inside, I went back outside. He comes back outside. Starts at me again... I just keep repeating "leave me alone" and he keeps going. Then he comes closer, right in front of where I was sitting, and (scary behavior)
Possible trigger:
. I texted the guys that were inside, told them what he was doing, and nothing, no one came outside, no one came to help, and the response I got to the text was "smh"...

The part that really scares me, during all of this, I couldn't switch... I could feel both protectors, right there, trying to come out, trying to force their way out, I wasn't fighting them at all, I was trying to go inside, and it wouldn't work. Nothing would work. I was stuck. It's never happened like that... even when I had no control at all, it didn't happen like that. When I had more control than I do now, the protectors could still force their way out...

I'm confused, but also scared. What if something happens again, and I can't switch? I don't know what to do... I'm terrified to go back there... even though he is going to get a criminal trespass if he acts up one more time, I'm terrified... that was my safe place, the only place that I felt comfortable being myself. I have a hard time leaving the house at all. Usually it's just doctors and then the club... I can't go anywhere else by myself without panic attacks... and now the club doesn't feel safe anymore, and I don't have the insiders to make it better cuz I can't count on them to be able to help...

I don't even know what I'm needing... I don't know how to fix my brain... make it work right again... I need to be able to switch when I'm triggered...
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Diagnoses:
PTSD with Dissociative Symptoms, Borderline Personality Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain