Tough times ...
It has been quite a while since I posted here again. Not because I don't think it's worthwhile, but because we've had some pretty tough times.
It started in mid-March with a nasty experience with a group of young people, who were targeting us, with defiant behavior, ringing bells, even late at night. Having swallowed this for days, the atmosphere became grimmer and stones were thrown against the windows and then my husband had had enough and wanted to take the group to task. This escalated, because in no time ( after they first ran away) they came back with bigger stone objects and they went right through the window. Shards of glass everywhere, the group of course also ran away again. We did not know them, but a little later, after we had called the glazier and the police, a father came to tell us that my husband had threatened his son. However, the father saw me, trembling with fright and the broken window and asked his son for clarification. The blame was not his, but a friend's, the son said.
The following day, my husband found a slat from a garden fence, with several nails pointed upwards behind the tires of our car, another attempt at vandalism against us. We bought a camera doorbell for security reasons, upon which 3 weeks later an attempted burglary at our house was foiled. Reported again, it led to regular patrols in the street.
However, all this had a deep impact on us, especially on me. Slept poorly for the weeks after, which also caused me to deteriorate both physically and mentally. The fibromyalgia and psoriasis worsened at a rapid pace and I entered a state of depression and feeling exhausted. I am now trying to regain peace in my head and body with a psychologist and some medication. The fact that I can talk about it now is a good sign. And I can enjoy people ,who are okay, again, mess around in my garden and get creative again like writing poems, taking pictures, crocheting and doing other nice things.
The resilience, confidence and optimism is still there!
Wishing you a wonderful Sunday and a fresh start to the new week! Love and hugs to all!
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in reply to Wilhelmina58 • •but good to read that you have help, and that it's working!
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in reply to Wilhelmina58 • •Thank you, peace is beginning to return to the street, a youth worker had also been brought in to tell the young people what they were doing and the impact of their behavior. We live only 25 meters from a soccer and basketball cage and it is always crowded with young people of different age groups. It is also unfortunately in the late hours a meeting point for some older youth, twenty-somethings, who deal there. Hopefully the extra surveillance will also be a deterrent for them. I may knock it off, it has become quieter afterwards.... It's just bad that there has to be a lot of misery before the municipality does anything about it here.
But anyway, apparently there has been an effect and that is important for the whole neighborhood!
Love to you!
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in reply to Wilhelmina58 • •Heel veel sterkte en hopelijk wordt alles snel weer beter! πππΉ
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in reply to Wilhelmina58 • •Dankjewel voor jullie reacties. Moet eerlijk bekennen dat ik niet had verwacht dat een en ander zoveel impact zou hebben op me, op mijn werk bij de NS had ik ook veel te maken met nare situaties met agressie ect., daar werden we ook voor getraind om dit de baas te kunnen, echter dat was niet op mijn persoontje gericht, maar waar ik voor stond, mijn werkgever. Maar de aanvallen bij/op ons huis waar je je veilig zou moeten achten, is een ander verhaal. En dat laatste was een trigger van oude wonden van lang geleden, persoonlijk hard geweld in huiselijke kring... Men zou denken dat na ruim 60 jaar die angst voor geweld wel weg zou zijn, niets is echter minder waar... Maar zoals ik schreef: er komt wat meer rust in mijn 'systeem' , genieten in het klein doet Γ³Γ³k goed! Lieve groetjes van hier naar jullie !
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