Tag: Threats

  • Threatening Text Messages

    It continues to trouble me that I received a series of threatening text messages, including those sent from Las Vegas depicting a man beaten nearly to death. These messages were intended to intimidate me and silence me in 2011. This experience is one of the reasons I have returned to therapy, as some nights I…

  • Verbal Abuse: Threats Meant to Instill Fear

    “You will pay. You will die.” It always lingers in the back of my mind – those words, the threats, the fear, the way it all became part of my daily reality. I still find myself wondering how I ever ended up in that position. The yelling, the gaslighting, the condescending words – all of…