• We are a multilingual website again. Read the notice about this.
  • Understand AI use at MyPTSD: all AI use is explained in our AI help page. AI use is by choice here. It exists if you want it, but does nothing unless you choose to use it.

Tired

Status
Not open for further replies.

Maleigh

New Here
I believe in God and most of my life when things have been out of control I could give things to him and pick myself up and move forward. I have been divorced a couple times and for some reason picked two men very abusive. In 2004 I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had many surgeries and had a permanent IV line sen into my Jugular vein. After so many years of fighting this disease my husband couldn't take it anymore and obtained drugs from other sources and pushed them through mu IV as I slept almost killing me, We went through attempted murder investigation for nine months with him walking free with the DA saying their wasn't enough evidence that proved he was the one pushing the drugs in the IV lines. I went through counseling but this affected me and my three children greatly.

You would think this would be enough but as I try to improve my life and get off SSI and still handle the brain tumor I have encountered 3 severe accidents one I broke my L4 the next I broke my neck in my C1 and damaged my brain stem ending up for about a half of year in assisted living and much rehabilitation and then last year caught in a weird avalanche and I wasn't out playing in the snow. I just recently tried to go back to college to try and better myself and things just keep going wrong, maybe I haven't really dealt with things as well as I thought, my mind processes don't work so well, etc.

Well this past Friday I was driving and the car in front of me was swerving everywhere finally leaving the road when it over-corrected and a young girls body was thrown from the car as the car began rolling and ending up back on the road. I ran to her side yet she was dead, I felt for a pulse and there was nothing, soon after I was able to assess what injuries I could two men showed up and helped roll her over and I began chest compressions. The girl never came back and died technically at the scene but we continued CPR until the ambulance got there 15 minutes later and she was pronounced dead at the hospital.

So you would think with all I have been through I could handle this, wrong, I can't sleep, and when I do drift I see the accident and the CPR over and over again and keep wondering what I could have done differently. I do not know what I could have done differently for this 19 year old sweet beautiful little lady. I feel numb. I am getting tired, life doesn't seem to let up.

I was a single mother for 14 years, now I am an empty nester on SSDI and it feels the harder I try the farther I get behind and now numbness for life is setting in and I feel to young for this to be the way I feel.
 
Welcome to the forum Maleigh. That's enough to make anyone tired. You did what you could for the girl. It takes a lot to even stop and try to help in a situation like that. Many people would have just kept going. Bless you.

Ted
 
Thank you Ted, I really don't have a support group or family and friends kind of disappeared when I got ill, some couldn't handle it. But I have recovered greatly as you could have probably told but I don't know if a type of survivors guilt is what I am feeling or that the fact the she was 19, the age of my youngest daughter. My kids live away from home and married and it was a hard thing.

Most think that they couldn't have stopped and helped but there is something that takes over when you see a tragedy like that enfold and you see this helpless child laying there, that I am sure you couldn't have done anything but stop and run by impulse to try and save her, it is in the carnal mind I believe.

Just having others to talk to about how to pull out of the numbness would help, but I find it hard to concentrate.

I was going to send flowers and a note to the family letting them know she didn't suffer and that she was surrounded by love as we fought for her, but she was cremated with instructions of no services would be held and not to contact the family.

I appreciate you a stranger being here for me. What can I do for you?

Malinda
 
Thanks a3a2. I am hoping to find friends who have ideas how to overcome the numbness of loss and get back to being able to concentrate.

I am in college and just to pull myself to class much less really concentrate seems to be overwhelming.
 
One way out of numbness is to take very tiny steps with big breaks in-between and give yourself permission to let yourself enjoy something for a few moments, kind of a time-out from the numbness if you will. For example, if you have or have access to a garden give yourself permission to set aside the numbness for a few moments and find something in bloom and focus on the scent and texture of the petals and the pleasure of the moment. Enjoy at your leisure, leaving the garden when the other thoughts start returning. Practice briefly allowing yourself to enjoy other things. Work up to briefly enjoying social interaction. Keep it light and brief, and don't fight the other thoughts when they demand your attention. There will be more opportunities to briefly enjoy stuff. Let the habit of allowing yourself to briefly enjoy stuff develop and grow.

Ted
 
Maleigh, that's exhausting just to read. Not many words and so dense with pain. May you begin to find peace and hope soon!

I had a thought with regard to the young woman. You said you do believe in God.

Jesus reminds us that Our Father does minister to the dying sparrow chick who's fallen from the nest.

They tell us of guardian angels. But Jesus says our angels stand before the throne, and God Himself attends us when we pass from the Shadowlands to the Immortal.

I believe she was not alone for a moment! :)

I also strongly believe she'll have the opportunity to thank you and you'll get to know each other, though not TOO soon, you know. ;)

To get back to earth, I can really sympathize, on a far smaller scale, with the snowballing catastrophe phenomenon.

It helps me to keep a mental, if not an actual, table that looks something like this:

Things I Can Do Something About

Things Currently Not in My Court

Things Out of My Control

Sometimes this can cut down the head explosion factor.

Take this with a grain of salt. I had to turn in my, "Trauma Survivor" card today after twenty years of nearly symptom free life. :-/

I've still got my "Agoraphobia Remission" card though. Lol!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Donation drives

2026 Donation Goal

Goal
$1,800.00
Earned
$910.00
This donation drive ends in
0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
  50.6%

Trending content

Featured content

Back
Top Bottom