volacious
08-12-2011, 09:26 PM
I have long suffered from anxiety and depression, it is only the past year that I feel I am gaining control of my life again. But recently, my experience with the neighbors around my house is reviving a lot of my anxiety...
I live in a mostly quiet suburb, but we have a house behind us that is full of unsupervised & uncontrollable teenagers who yell, scream, party, get drunk, etc etc - anything you might describe as "disturbing the peace." This happens every year during the summer, but for whatever reason they decided to amp it up; every single night like clockwork, midnight to sometimes 4 in the morning. The usual complaining about bad neighbors aside, I am becoming increasingly unable to tolerate it, anxiety-wise... my anxiety has increased every night, and now I am almost reduced to tears as the clock approaches midnight. I thought I could push it out of my head, but the noise and partying makes me so scared... I constantly think they're looking in the windows at me or laughing at me (some thought cycles that are associated with my depression). I can hear them now, and it has come to the point where I am getting panic attacks...
Needless to say, other neighbors have called the police on them, written letters of complaint, explored every avenue to deal with these people. Nothing has been done, and I don't expect anything to be done in the future, so I guess that might be attributing to my unbelievable hopeless feelings about it and feeling so scared of it every night.
My home is the only place I can live comfortably without anxiety, and now I feel like there's an overwhelming intrusion on my only sanctuary. I came to this forum hoping to get some help or advice on what to do... not really asking for community/police action but how I can deal with this, emotionally.
I live in a mostly quiet suburb, but we have a house behind us that is full of unsupervised & uncontrollable teenagers who yell, scream, party, get drunk, etc etc - anything you might describe as "disturbing the peace." This happens every year during the summer, but for whatever reason they decided to amp it up; every single night like clockwork, midnight to sometimes 4 in the morning. The usual complaining about bad neighbors aside, I am becoming increasingly unable to tolerate it, anxiety-wise... my anxiety has increased every night, and now I am almost reduced to tears as the clock approaches midnight. I thought I could push it out of my head, but the noise and partying makes me so scared... I constantly think they're looking in the windows at me or laughing at me (some thought cycles that are associated with my depression). I can hear them now, and it has come to the point where I am getting panic attacks...
Needless to say, other neighbors have called the police on them, written letters of complaint, explored every avenue to deal with these people. Nothing has been done, and I don't expect anything to be done in the future, so I guess that might be attributing to my unbelievable hopeless feelings about it and feeling so scared of it every night.
My home is the only place I can live comfortably without anxiety, and now I feel like there's an overwhelming intrusion on my only sanctuary. I came to this forum hoping to get some help or advice on what to do... not really asking for community/police action but how I can deal with this, emotionally.