MVA Car Wreck

[babyblue]

It's been 4 weeks 1 day since my wreck. I am trying to seek help do to the fact I can't sleep and flashbacks have started at work. I will soon be getting my pickup back and I'm afraid that it may cause more anxiety when I go to drive that rode in it(take it every day for work). Also it has gotten to the point where I am extremely afraid to ride with my roommate because of how she drives. I love her to death and don't want to upset her but my anxiety is to high. Not sure if I can be helped with any of this because I can't get an appointment till middle of next week. I feel it's possibly been to long and I'll have to live with this. I don't talk about it much in fear I'll get brushed off for "not letting go" but the more I talk about it the easier its gotten to at least sleep an OK amount at night. I'm kinda just rambling this off hoping for some ideas about something.

 

[RussH]

driving your truck might have the opposite effect; it might calm your anxiety and help you regain some confidence in driving.
I was in a bad accident, an ambulance accident in 1989. I was off work for almost seven months, so I was afraid to get into an ambulance, but when I did it quieted my fear.

I hope driving your truck will have the same effect

 

[Gadgie]

Well, they do say that if you fall from a horse the best thing to do is right back up on it, and keep riding.

I was the same when I had a motor cycle accident many years ago. A tourist was driving on the wrong side of the road, and hit me head on?

Luckily I flew right over the roof of his car, and landed on a grassy bank, some thirty feet away.

I was lucky, no broken bones, just cuts and bruises, but I was back on my replacement motorbike within three weeks.

 

[babyblue]

I hope y'all are right. I won't pass or drive in the lane I was in when I wrecked. Won't think twice about it. If I do I panic. I think I'm scared it'll happen again in another vehicle.

 

[twinkle30]

I was in a car wreck last March and it's taken me these 10 months of therapy to even start to drive on the highway. I feel like in another year I will be "normal" again. It takes time but I think there is recovery. Best of luck to you. By the way the therapist that helped me the most was one that specialized in phobias and anxiety not ptsd.