This may not be a proper place to talk about this, anons, but I'd appreciate some feedback on this.

I worked in television for a while, in LA. The place I worked was surrounded by industry lawyers, powerful people

One coworker whom I worked with started spreading rumors about me, when I confronted him about it, he just said, "well that's what we do here". I worked my ass of there. He spread rumors that I was a serial killer, antisemetic, etc. I was libertarian, and I talked about it, this was right before the election, and everybody there was a liberal bernie supporter, I voted for Gary Johnson at the time. And actual was stupid enough to talk about it.

After about a year of working there, my girlfriend and I decided to move away. Moved in with family. And it's been about a year, but I never liked the way I was treated there. And I feel my experiences there scarred me.

I felt a lot of rage, resentment, residual guilt and honestly hate after that. I felt powerless. I've been doing a lot of writing trying to sort my thoughts out. Had waves of intrusive thoughts.

I felt like there was a lot of evil there. I felt possessed by demonic forces. But being around family was healing.

I don't know if it was the right thing to do, because it was a good opportunity, I felt like I was excelling at my job, people were noticing, and then these backstabbing aderall zoinked bullies parasitically tried to take credit and damage my name.

I don't know what I'm asking from you anons, maybe just prayers. My coworkers still try to reach out to me.

How would you overcome this situation, should I have confronted them, should I still confront them, or just let it burn away?

Some of these people have connections in DC with super rich families. My family and I are relatively poor.

Oh yeah, my paychecks were $666