I keep getting panic attacks at night when I'm in my bed. I get this thought in my head that someone is going to come into my room and rape me and I can't get the thought out of my head at all.
When I switch out the light I feel like he is actually IN the room, and I have to be totally still or he'll hurt me, so I end up totally paralysed in bed, scared to move and so I can't put the light back on. Some nights I'm too scared to even switch off the light because I know how scared I'll get.
I know it's irrational but at the time it feels so real and so true. And I can't do ANYTHING to get rid of the thought.
What should I do? I need to get some sleep, this happens almost every night and it takes me at least an hour to calm down enough to go to sleep, some nights I'm awake almost all night.
And no, I was never sexually assaulted as a child before anyone asks.
2006-08-02
10:00:42
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