I suffer from a few mental disorders that I was diagnosed at 18 with. I’m now 19 almost 20. I used to have extreme anxiety where I was in the hospital every night screaming and crying thinking I was dying. It ruined me. Now I’m just stuck with the mood swings, anger and depression. I’ve been doing so good for the past few months I thought I was doing so good. Tonight around 10pm I went with my family on a walk at this place down by the river. There was actually quite a lot of people. There is a bridge with a statue in the middle of the river you can walk out to and view it. and every night around 10 they light these rings of fire around them. I had some family fly in from Portugal for the first time in 14 years. And today was their last day here so we took them to see it. Well once we got to the statue there is a little place to go down and view the river I told my mom there was someone down there and I’m not going down there. But she went anyway. As me, my grandpa, and brother stood at the top she came back up and she said we should head out. she had a panicked look on her face. Well halfway across the bridge we stopped and looked out before we left. And then this strangeee dude long hair, white shirt and jeans walks right past us with a Bluetooth speaker and it’s repeating the same words over and over and I couldn’t make it out at the time. On his right hip he had a large gun. Conceal and candy is allowed in my state but this wasn’t like a small one it was large. And on the left hip he had an ax. so we were like yeah we should really get out but we parked in this parking lot which wasn’t lit up tonight. As we started to head back we saw him pacing back and forth with that same phrase replaying loud over and over again. As we were walking we saw him go to his car and grab something and he started to follow us. At this time I was FREAKING out I was panicking so bad I almost passed out. And he made a direct line at us. Like he crossed the medians and over the grass and he was speed walking towards me. He got about 15 feet from me before I looked at my mom and said “oh sh*” and you can tell her and my bother and grandpa had fear in their eyes. So we turned back around and started walking to where the people were and the minute we turned around he also turned around and kept following us but he was getting faster and faster. My grandpa froze up with his back facing the guy and me and my mom were facing the guy. The guy stopped right behind us grabbed the gn and tried pulling it out. I took off running towards the people. I lost my family in the process. I feel like I did them wrong by running but my anxiety was through the roof. We met up at this food truck where everyone was and the guy and his wife were even terrified because we lost track of the guy. So he offered to drive us to our car so we could leave. We left and called police and they said about 4 other people called in a span of 5 minutes about him. This week in my city there have been 8 homicides. Which isn’t that rare for my city but still scary. Now I am still panicking even though I’m in bed. I feel like this just caused my anxiety to fully come back. Now I don’t even want to leave the house or be around people. Definitely not going back there again…..