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    Victim of Violent Crime - Major Sleep Problems

    Continued . . . First, a correction: "That July I started developing symptoms of both corneal detachment" should read "retinal detachment" I returned to work in March 2002 at a nearby call center. The work started out okay, but gradually went downhill. So I wasn't completely disappointed...
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    Victim of Violent Crime - Major Sleep Problems

    Continued . . . I eventually found work at a large computer retailer, Computer City, and became one of their top sales reps. One evening a coworker managed to drop a computer on my head, aggravating a whiplash injury (my first painful San Francisco experience, two blocks from where I'd be...
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    Victim of Violent Crime - Major Sleep Problems

    Continued . . . Picking up from where I left off, in the following years in San Francisco I gradually put more distance between the present and when I was assaulted. I began to think of life in terms of before and after the event. I started wearing an eye patch because the iris had been...
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    Victim of Violent Crime - Major Sleep Problems

    I'm glad I can be of help - I hadn't considered that my story might be useful to others, so it's an added bonus. In a lot of ways, I'm a lot more fortunate than many others who have PTSD, e.g. veterans or people who've suffered injuries much worse than mine, or who've been in situations where...
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    Victim of Violent Crime - Major Sleep Problems

    You can read about Dan White here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White
  6. J

    Victim of Violent Crime - Major Sleep Problems

    Thanks for the quick reply! I'll get to the diagnosis in a subsequent post. This is the first time I've really put it all down, and I might find it useful in the future. Stay tuned....
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    Victim of Violent Crime - Major Sleep Problems

    Continued . . . The next several months were occupied with doctors visits. I'd also sustained a broken nose (although the resident said "it doesn't look broken to me" - that's why he's not an ENT doctor). The ENT doctor I saw said as soon as he saw me "boy do you have a broken nose!". I later...
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    Victim of Violent Crime - Major Sleep Problems

    I was assaulted by 4 youths one evening in San Francisco as I was walking down Dolores St. in 1981. When I saw them, I briefly wondered what they might want, but as it's not unusual for people to be hanging out along the street in San Francisco, and I'd never had any problems before. Also, as it...
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