Sufferer Young and afraid

[PTSD]

Hi guys,

I'm complicated, like really complicated. Heart transplanted at 14, I'm now aged twenty and only just suffering and coming to terms with my severe PTSD.

I've gone a year without my therapist since it all started but now I can't even go out let alone get in the car without having a PTSD panic attack, I hate it, I hate not being able to get to grips with the not being able to breathe and not being able to tell people how I feel and saying 'I just don't feel right'. An overwhelming sense of fear that comes on without any notice.

Do any other suffers have any advice about what I should do to calm myself down? I need some sort of guidance just so I can feel normal again..

Thanks x

 

[Health heal explore]

Hi you've come to a great place for support and advise.. there are people here who have experienced everything you can possibly imagine!!

My ptsd isn't related to physical trauma so I don't know that I can relate but breathing exercises and grounding techniques always help me. Have you thought about going back to therapy?

 

[joeylittle]

Was your PTSD diagnosed as a result of something you experienced medically (relating to the transplant)? Can you write a little more about the trauma, and how your diagnosis was described to you? Talking about it often helps.

Also, you might want to consider becoming a member.

Welcome.