Abduction Fear

 

How person N overcame the fear of abduction

One day she received a phone call from a young man with the aim of harassing her. Person (N) is a student and going out to the educational institution where she studies is not unusual. But the same caller repeated her harassment to the point of threatening to abduct her. She was afraid to tell anyone about it because of the customs and traditions that the girl held responsible for the harassment of any young man. A few days later, she was involved in an attempted abduction.

She told her mother and sisters what had happened to her. She was afraid of the threat to her life and wanted to seek protection from her family, but she was surprised by her mother to order her to remain silent so that the problem would not grow and escalate into murder. (N) knows that the escalation of problems is only related to family honor that may actually get her killed by her father and brothers, lock her in the house at best or force her to get married. On top of that, her mother blamed her for the violence she was subjected to by the strange man, and increased her abuse over what she suffered.

She felt that all the doors were closed in her face. She became self-absorbed and lost the desire to speak. She refused to leave the house because she did not feel secure and protected. She contacted the hotline of the Family Counseling and Development Foundation, talked about her problem, received psychosocial support, and was provided with a number of cognitive and behavioral methods that help her alleviate the psychological symptoms that are worsening her condition day after day. She also received psychological and social guidance regarding the precautions needed to maintain her life, not to hesitate to escalate the matter through the appropriate person in the family, or to resort to the police.