Monday, August 9, 2010

A Fine Line Between Caution and Paranoia

Trying to maintain a balance between caution and paranoia is tricky. A few years ago, I became concerned that my former neighbor might sue me because of this blog. I took it down, lost all the previous posts and responses, all because I was slipping into paranoia. It is one of those more costly sides to post traumatic stress disorder that can hang on so long - long after the predator has left. Since then, of course, I started up the blog again. My paranoia has subsided just from getting out there every day and living the way I want to.

6 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Sue, all the more reason to keep writing the book. Your first postings, years ago moved me to fight back. I continue to live this hell 9 years now. I too feared she would find what I post but I don't care anymore. I've outed her, arrested her and continue to ignore her, my biggest weapon.

Anonymous said...

Oh Ms. Sue, I'm so sorry you and your husband are going through this. There are some seriously crazy people in this world and I've had to try to deal with a few myself.

Your neighbor is one of the worst. I hope you can get something serious on him so that he gets sent to jail. I wish you could get some sort of evidence that he's cooking dope. Would that even get the attention of Deputy Dog ummmm, I mean the Deputy DA?

Try the searches on the internet to see if you can come up with any dirt on him. He's too terrible to have just started this kind of behavior when he moved to your neighborhood. His kind have been this way all their lives, believe me. Good Luck, wish I could help in some way.

Anonymous said...

I thought that we were the only people going through this sort of abusive crap with horrible neighbors. I now have a knot in my stomach when I am home, and it feels a lot like PTSD to me. It is horrible. What do you do about the constant verbal and mental barrages?

Jin said...

terribly sorry for your situation. We had a NFH, moved in the worst housing market a year ago, and both the husband and wife are still stalking and harassing us and our children. We've had local police put their badge in their pocket and tell us to be in a public place in Boston while he's "taken care of" b/c they couldn't do anything. Another neighbor on the same street has had to file a criminal no trespass against our former NFG for stalking his college age daughter. A classic sociopath that sill makes our life hell. My children have been yelled at, exposed to (I couldn't put my son who was 7 at the time testify against this guy), intimidated by both the husband and wife (who spends her days writing harry potter fan fiction online). After having moved, our former NFH just tried to start it up with me again while my son was playing soccer. Everyone in my family, including my wife, my preteen daughters, has been stalked, intimidated, yelled at, by our NFH. Keep up the faith. Once you notice someone go into the deep end of evil, never, never, ever, let them into your life. God bless and hope your situation improves.

Anonymous said...

Get a video camera and carry it with you anytime you go outside. I know it is a pain but sometimes that will stop or at least slow them down abit. If not you have them on video...do look it up in most states it is legal to do this. If the police will not pay any attention to it use it in your civil suit it takes alittle time but they will start getting fined everytime they they bother you and it will soon stop. Just stick to your guns so the bully white trash does not take over.

Anonymous said...

Left comment above thread as well. In my home, before this looney apt. neighbors harassing me, I once had a crazy man chase me to my front door screaming at me he was going to kill me, why because there was a security gate and I did not let his mother in law follow me in the gate (had no idea, I never let anybody follow me thru the gate we have a security gate presumeably so no one does 'follow you in' but uses a card key) I always pulled over never let anybody 'follow me in' he was incensed livid w/rage, it was bizarro just like dryer man here, I called police, recorded him threatening to kill me thru my front door, & they listened to it, they should of arrested him, you don't threaten to kill someone, instead they "let him off w/a warning" which is one of the problems with looneys then they think they can get away with it always. Police, sorry to say, still in this day and age, give men more credence & talk to women like they are nitwits. And again, you have to take these kind of ppl very seriously and never ever think they can't escalate that behavior to violence, Borderline Personality Disorder is not uncommon & they have no sense of boundaries. Which is why they behave sociopathically w/o what we all consider 'normal' ways of living in society with others. They are the stalkers of the world as well as psychopaths. Paranoid Schizophrenics can also behave bizarro like on here, but the one's that always invade other ppl's spaces are Borderlines.