Thanks to each poster who shared in this thread, whether suffering w/PTSD or not.
I am amazed reading the stories here! So many are suffering similar things as I. I didn't even know what PTSD was until about 2 months ago when diagnosed by 2 different docs. I was in bad head on car accident, my best friend died. Since then I don't leave the house, haven't driven, sounds of sirens drive me nuts, petrified in car to point of involuntary screaming/jumping/feet up on dash, when another car starts to pull out or gets to close. It's embarrassing and horrible feelings of fear.
I don't remember all of the accident. I remember, in this order, flashes of getting in the car, the sound of crash, the smell of all the fluids, seeing my friend in a flash second, being outside the car, the roof and sound of the helicopter, hollering for my husband in the OR. That is the totality of what I remember of the entire wreck. I found out in the hospital my friend was DOS. I had no head injury.
I want to learn more about this and hope that I can be fixed.
I am amazed reading the stories here! So many are suffering similar things as I. I didn't even know what PTSD was until about 2 months ago when diagnosed by 2 different docs. I was in bad head on car accident, my best friend died. Since then I don't leave the house, haven't driven, sounds of sirens drive me nuts, petrified in car to point of involuntary screaming/jumping/feet up on dash, when another car starts to pull out or gets to close. It's embarrassing and horrible feelings of fear.
I don't remember all of the accident. I remember, in this order, flashes of getting in the car, the sound of crash, the smell of all the fluids, seeing my friend in a flash second, being outside the car, the roof and sound of the helicopter, hollering for my husband in the OR. That is the totality of what I remember of the entire wreck. I found out in the hospital my friend was DOS. I had no head injury.
I want to learn more about this and hope that I can be fixed.