Y&A, just an observation and wonder if this could be why you react with relief. Total shot in the dark, here and may be off the mark... Your trauma was not from an attack so to speak but a horrible accident. Does not lessen it by any means. Those that had to do some sort of combat/fighting and the nightmares are around that may be why they "wake up swinging" and unsafe. Where as with you you you were living a trauma in your night where being awoke could bring you some relief, you were not in fight mode s to speak. What do you think?
Andrea, being wiped out into the nest day is not new (ask any one here) as the night mares replay in our head awake too. The mental toll is just as exausting as any physical labor, and hard labor at that... wiped out, aches, pains... Don't think for a moment our minds cannot wear us out in the physical sense. It is a normal part of PTSD. It also gets better in time during healing.
