So about a month ago a guy broke into my backyard. He didn’t get in the house because my dad scared him by hitting on the window with the blinds which KINDA sounded like a gun even tho it wasn’t. I know he was arrested because a day later my brother was driving and saw that the police caught the guy a few houses down from my house and he had the same bike that he parked when he went in my backyard. I have to keep reminding myself that he’s been caught already but every sound I hear outside just makes my heart jump. Like when the house is really quiet and you can hear your house slowly settling more into the ground and you hear a small crack or something- those make me so freakin scared now. When the guy jumped the fence and went into our backyard, he kinda hit the outer wall of the bathroom and then found out that it was him going into our backyard, so now any sound I hear from the house makes me always think that there’s someone trying to get in. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get over this and calm down?

Sorry its long but if you read it... thank you