Expert: Nafeesah - 5/11/2009

Question
A year ago I was verbally attacked horribly by someone. This person screamed at me at the top of their lungs for about 15 minutes and said horrible things. They screamed with violent rage and hatred and their head was snapping back and forth while they screamed at me. Other people were laughing while this happened.

I am still traumatized about this incident a year after it happened.

When it happened, I had blocked it out from my brain. But now it suddenly came back to me a year later and I find that I am not over it.

How can I get over this?

Can you give me some tips?

Answer
I would seek counseling if this has still bothered you after a year and if people were standing around laughing hopefully they're not friends of yours. If they were I would get rid of them and find new friends because your real friends will come to your defense and put a stop to it.