My source that I am using for my story is a website that is filled with people talking about their individual stories of what it was like being held at gunpoint. I wanted to find a source that talked about the same experience that I went through in order to see how other people handled it. I wondered if others froze in fear, or some were maybe better at handling the high stress situation. What I've found so far is that a lot of people had a lot of different reactions, and a lot of people also had a similar reaction to me. This made me feel a lot better, sort of comforted in a way, because I have always been angry with myself for how I handled the situation when I was faced with it. So I was happy to see that I wasn't the only one who froze. But also a lot of the posts talked about what it is like now to experience the world having had that experience, and how the fear and anxiety from the experience sticks with you. I could completely relate to that as well, and found another level of comfort knowing I wasn't the only one who experienced this too. I find when I am walking at night by myself I am more nervous, or I am quicker to assume that the person walking towards me is a bad person, or going to threaten me in some way. If someone walking towards me starts reaching into their pocket I automatically assume they are going to pull out a gun, and my heart starts pounding. I always thought it was me just overreacting, but I am comforted to see I am not the only one who feels these sort of things. Finding a source for my story has really shined a new light on this experience for me.
Here is the link: http://www.experienceproject.com/groups/Got-Held-Up-At-Gunpoint/33934
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