What my brain probably looks like.
I have been quiet for a while. Over the last couple of months I have stayed away from twitter and Facebook, and spent most of my spare time at home, avoiding people and life as much as I can. I am no longer a happy introvert. I am an unhappy hermit.
I have PTSD.
It’s very early days – diagnosis is recent. Assessments are being done, what treatments and support will be required are being evaluated. The path to recovery has barely started, but at least now I know there is a path.
So I hang on, between the appalling sleeplessness, the incessant noise in my brain from flashbacks I cannot control, that tight constriction in my gut from the anxiety and fear, the mind numbing worry of how I might cope financially if I have to stop working, and the nerve shredding panic every…
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