Have you ever gone missing? Like you ran off, scared not knowing what to do? I’m just reflecting when this happened to me in the past and wondered if it has happened to any of you. I’m up, only got a bit of sleep. Don’t have to be at work 'til 5:00. So have time.
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Twice in my history I’ve impulsively “driven away from home.” Once in 2004 I drove from the tri state area (where I reside) to the center of Florida… and back without getting “caught”. And in 2012 I drove to Vegas and back. With the latter I’m lucky I had the wherewithal to purchase motor oil. I’m the least handy person but miraculously a good Samaritan taught me what to do. Apparently this driving long distances behavior is somewhat typical of us. Although I can’t remember where I read that.
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three years ago. it all started with me posting some pretty warped disturbing stuff on a mental health forum. just as i posted the last thing i got mighty paranoid and made sure all the curtains and blinds were shut. i figured they will be sending the ambos or police any time soon so i decided to flee.
i drove around town in a state of hysteria. i felt i was being hunted. drove into the cemetery and parked. turned my mobile ph off . it was ringing on and on. began to self mutilate with what i can’t even remember but i made a mess of myself . decided to leave and go to a cafe.
i was so uncoordinated i fell into the glass door so everyone just stared. ordered myself a coffee before driving home. i had family waiting. the local police and mental health people had been looking for me. i was driven into the hospital but i freaked out because the sun was going down and the demons were coming to get me. i struggled and was held down and injected with something. i was strapped to a bed and was transported to a psychiatric hospital 2 hrs away.
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Thanks for sharing. It’s interesting that those things tend to happen with other individuals in the community. I worry that it may happen again. That I’ll just walk away and never come back.
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What is the tristate area?
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I used to run away from home a lot as a young teen.
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Apparently I visited 2 neighboring countries in 2017, when strange things started happening. I have memory loss covering that time, so I don’t know the reasons. I had never been to a foreign country before.
I also have a tent and a sleeping bag I don’t remember buying.
According to medical records I also left the hospital multiple times without permission.
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I guess a nugget of wisdom, something that saved me both times was having a car charger for my cell phone. Maybe arm yourself with one of those. And/or try to value your coat; if your on foot.
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I probably should have said greater New York area. Tri state simply means New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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I used to disappear from my house and freak everyone out. I just couldn’t stand being watched all the time. It was choking me. I needed air to think things through. I didn’t want them looking at me I couldn’t think. I would walk and talk to myself and they would freak out looking for me and damn near call out the National Guard even though I told them sometimes I just needed to leave to walk. It would get too noisy and I didn’t know how else to get control over it but to just escape them. If I tried to tell them I needed to go for a walk they would insist someone go with me, they would never let me go.
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I left the house after some supposedly argument with my dad. It was really cold and I went to the beach and was homeless for 2 days. The police eventually found me and brought me home. My car got towed as well and then I eventually got baker acted again.
The second time I drove 2 hours south of Florida to a place called key west and then drove back. Managed to somehow stay safe and unharmed. I was pretty delusional but somehow was able to get back home.
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Twice I have driven to Walmart parking lot to sleep for the night. Another time I drove out of town to do the same thing. Couldn’t be around family or talk to anyone. And interacting in my environment was too much work I couldn’t cope with anything, no sound etc. I think I was mixed episode. Another time same reason I went for a walk to get away same thing. My husband found me on the highway. I think I was mixed. Very irritable
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I got in my car and drove every direction looking for a new place to start a life - I was suicidal so I wrote some depressing crap on a napkin at Denny’s — prior I was driving and it felt like my heart could stop and like a feeling of something was being drained from me - my girlfriend was calling me and when I picked up the phone I would feel this way - I also felt like I was driving over hills and becoming airborne - I was seeing visions and screaming at God telling him I was sorry and I didn’t want to hurt anyone and to just make it stop - part of the reason I left was people were pulling guns and sneaking into my apartment - eventually I was stripped nekkid and thrown in a jail cell for being suicidal …
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I tried running away to canada while psychotic and homeless to escape the apocalypse. Made it 400 miles to northern maine. My parents found me living in a barn
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My story is too complex to put into words, but I must say I have had hell of alot of adventure.
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I tried running away to South Korea once. I was going to get plastic surgery and live as a pop star. My husband had to take my money away and took all my cards and ID from me so I wouldn’t go anywhere. I was then put into the mental hospital for a while.
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My parents took my wallet and phone. I still made it across the northeast lol
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Wow! 
That is so scary.
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I guess when I moved to another city to work after losing my job when I first got sick, I wasn’t medicated and I soon slipped into deep psychosis. my parents called me but I didn’t let on that I was sick but eventually after being hospitalized they found me again.
but in my right mind I never ran away except when I was five I walked down onto the busy street and was picked up by a couple of teenage girls…they took me home because I told them what street I lived on.
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