Is this a normal reaction to this situation?

In 2013 I was evicted from my apartment because we had fire doors installed. They built two fire doors on each floor and it affected my reading. At this time I was 135 pounds and I had just lost 40 pounds eating protein bars in replacement for meals for two months straight. It affected my reading because the doors slammed and it's purpose was to stop the spread of fires. I figured that the fire would spread regardless and these doors were very loud.

So I put grocery bags underneath the door to prop the door open. I was told numerous times by my landlord that it was the law for these doors to be in place. I was not aware of any new law and nobody told me that they would be building the doors. I got in fights with my neighbors over the noise and even a physical altercation with one where he pushed me.

Eventually they ordered me to show up to court and I didn't. They gave me seven days to get my stuff and get out. I had a cat at the time and my cat was taken from me. So I left the apartment and I took a bag of stuff with me. I was walking along an alley when I received a call from the Crisis Hotline people who visited me sometimes because I have Aspergers Syndrome and for some reason they wanted to have contact with me. So they called me and told me they would put me up at a hotel for a few nights. I said alright and they showed up at a gas station and a doctor assessed me on the spot for less than a minute.

They took me away in an unmarked police car to a psychiatric ward where for a while I was kept in isolation until they put me in a unit where meth addicts slept. So I got moved to a normal unit where I had to sleep with two other people in the same room. For four months.

Not for a single day did they ever tell me when I could leave. They had nothing to do at the hospital except share two TV's, a ping pong table, magazines and old books, and I wasn't aloud to bring in electronics or even go out to go get more clothes for a week. And they wouldn't tell me when I could have my "privileges".

So after three days of being in the "normal" unit I couldn't handle the stress of the situation I started going down to the cafeteria and eating cake and cookies. And I gained all the weight back.

I didn't have money at the time to move into a new apartment either. And my family didn't want me to live with them. And I had no friends to crash with.

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Comments ( 11 )
  • kelili

    That's really sad. Keep calm and wait.

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  • davesumba

    No, it is not normal to compromise the safety of an entire building because the noise of a door interrupts your reading for a second. Either buy your own house, or learn to deal with noisy neighbors, that's how life works.

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    • nabilone

      It happened multiple times a day, the door was right beside my apartment. The walls were thin. And it doesn't compromise anybody's safety. More fire extinguishers would be a logical solution to the problem.

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  • wistfulmaiden

    oh wow, thats is really unfortunate. I think almost anything would be a "normal" reaction to this situation.
    Better luck in the future.

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    • nabilone

      what do you mean by almost anything?

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  • handsignals

    Fire doors only close when an alarm is activated, the doors should have been open all the time???

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    • nabilone

      That what I thought too

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    • itsathriller

      The door she is talking about is a door that's made with chemicals that prevents fire from spreading and releases chemicals to help extinguish a fire. We have them in my dorm, but they never said we can't prop them open.

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      • handsignals

        Fire doors are designed so that when there is a fire in a building the area in which the fire is the fire doors close and have a 2 hour time period in which the fire is contained to that 1 area so the fire doesn't spread, at all other times the fire doors remain open???

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  • N0tTheSun

    If you are as cute as Crusades I am sure they wont mind

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    • nabilone

      Funny thing is I was and the land lady always stared at me when I came out in running shorts and a tank top

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