Dd has her first graduate job and as part of her job has to do site visits on her own to “spooky” big, empty houses. She has to spend a couple of hours measuring up these boarded up houses often in dodgy areas. She’s really worried about there being someone in the house who attacks her.
She picks keys up and the house is locked and I said about locking herself in but she says what if someone has already broken in and is squatting. And then she’s locked herself in there with someone. She knows logically it’s unlikely but she does have past trauma where she was attacked.
so she messed up a site visit the other week due to this and her boss is a bit annoyed. I’ve told Dd to talk to her team leader (female) about what happened as she hasn’t told anyone. She’s scared they’ll think she’s useless but I’ve said they can’t support her unless they know. Currently they will just be thinking why on earth did you not do xyz.
ive looked up a trauma counsellor nearby and will pay for her to have more counselling. Ive suggested she takes the family dog on site visits which she’s considering. And also ordered her a rape alarm.
can anyone think of anything else which might help?