Hi everyone!
I just joined this site after finally deciding to join a forum.
I am 21 years old and I've only recently been diagnosed with PTSD after struggling with it for years.
Three years ago I went to the UK to visit my friend for three weeks. Let's just say from the day I arrived it was a holiday I would never forget.
I was to take a connecting flight from Paris to London but I ended up spending the night at the airport, being my first overseas trip alone, I had no idea what to do and found myself in a panic for hours until I pushed through and got another flight.
I was finally enjoying my holiday until New Years, where I received a call that my grandfather had died, I tried to be ok but it hit me after a few drinks.
When I thought the worst was over, it wasn't. A few days after New Years on my way to the bus station, my friend and I hit a patch of black ice and the car hit the edge of this hill a few times before rolling over. If we were going any faster, we'd be dead.
I got back home a week later and I thought I was fine, I thought I was fine weeks and months after that, I ignored the panic attacks, the nervousness, the blame I put on myself.
I can't talk to my friends and family about it, they know but don't understand what it's like. For three years I've been fighting it alone, it's hard to cope, does anyone know a way to make it easier? A better way to cope with PTSD?
I just joined this site after finally deciding to join a forum.
I am 21 years old and I've only recently been diagnosed with PTSD after struggling with it for years.
Three years ago I went to the UK to visit my friend for three weeks. Let's just say from the day I arrived it was a holiday I would never forget.
I was to take a connecting flight from Paris to London but I ended up spending the night at the airport, being my first overseas trip alone, I had no idea what to do and found myself in a panic for hours until I pushed through and got another flight.
I was finally enjoying my holiday until New Years, where I received a call that my grandfather had died, I tried to be ok but it hit me after a few drinks.
When I thought the worst was over, it wasn't. A few days after New Years on my way to the bus station, my friend and I hit a patch of black ice and the car hit the edge of this hill a few times before rolling over. If we were going any faster, we'd be dead.
I got back home a week later and I thought I was fine, I thought I was fine weeks and months after that, I ignored the panic attacks, the nervousness, the blame I put on myself.
I can't talk to my friends and family about it, they know but don't understand what it's like. For three years I've been fighting it alone, it's hard to cope, does anyone know a way to make it easier? A better way to cope with PTSD?
