Dealing with the mental issues related to my house being burglarized.

[LiberalArkie]

2. And the simplest thing is some those cheap alarms that you can carry to a hotel

and alert you when the door is opened. They helped me get over it when my mobile hoe was broken into. By the time the batterys had died in them, I was over it.

I am still fighting coming down with vertigo and needing to do work around the house. But the fear is there of it happening again when I am on a ladder. I know it is an irrational fear. But it is still there. For some reason at the same time as the vertigo appeared I got a fear of being in a dentist chair. Never had it before but the anxiety is so strong.

I did take steps to harden my doors, and my lab likes to bark when someone enters the yard, but he would never attack any one, but maybe scare them away.

The fears should go away after a bit on their own, mine did. When time goes by and no one has broken in again, you get your confidence back. But for a while when you hear a fly land outside, you will believe someone is outside. It just takes a while.