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The doctors don't know whats causing it, but they have there guesses on reactions to meds and cranial bruising. Only started hallucinating when I was on the max dose of mrphine possible

I've been having really bad nightmares recently and in the last few days I have struggled to tell what's real sometimes, until I get reminded where I am. I don't know if it's the pain meds or what but does anyone else have this problem?

getting back out to sea next week :). Can't wait

@CyclePath I struck lucky in that most of my work mates completely understood. Can't talk about it to many other people though.

Just talking about it really does help me deal with it. I've tried returning to the same caves (that was a very bad idea), I've started therapy. Paroxetine seems to be working as well.

yo, whats up?

CBT, as well as an indefinite course of paroxetine

Yeah, started therapy yesterday, actually. Got a some friends who are incredibly supportive as well

It only really got bad after a vicious rescue where we almost got someone out alive (died from CO2 poisoning within 50m of the cave exit). It caused me to seriously consider suicide, as i felt it was all my fault, e.g I could have saved him if I'd been quicker etc. Then the thoughts just stopped...

I was part of the British cave diving rescue organisation for a year and a half, which is probably an ironic title seeing as we never brought a person out alive. for the last two months Ive averaged 3 hours of sleep a night because of it, and regular breakdowns as well as nightmares. The best...

Hi, I was diagnosed with PTSD last week. I have been part of the British Cave Diving rescue organisation for a year and a half, which is where the incident ( or collection I should say) occured. It only really started to show in the last few months after a string of fairly nasty incidents. Now I...