From Fear to Freedom
Mental Health Care - London, England, United Kingdom
From Fear to Freedom Employees
From Fear to Freedom Details
A lot of the clients who I see have suffered from emotional trauma so I know how you feel. Life is a constant challenge living with the effects of trauma, some have suffered nearly all their life. You had hopes and dreams, but unknown to everyone, you were never the same after those incidents. Nowhere feels safe, not even at home. Your nightmares and flashbacks are terrible, unable to sleep alone in your house for years after. Always checking windows, locks and doors.You don't leave the house for days and weeks on end and you start to feel depressed. It becames a normal part of your life. You always thought you had some form of "anxiety" or just suffered from random "panic attacks", and there were times when you hardly any symptoms.You could be out having a walk and you might hear a certain word or someone would do something, even just a smell and all of a sudden it's like your right back in that event all those years ago, all of a sudden you start having uncontrollable flashbacks of the events every time they closed her eyes and all those feelings start flooding back and you just have to get away from there. You would often forget who, or where you are.It becomes so bad that you can't concentrate or complete the smallest of tasks. You stop getting involved in any social events and stop making friends.All of this pays a heavy toll on you. Your relationships start to fall apart, you find it hard holding a job and you start failing out with most of your friends.You go and the doctor but they just give you some antidepressants and sleeping tablets but they just make you feel tired and totally drained of energy, you go from being an outgoing person withdrawn, rarely going out or seeing anybody because you just didn't feel like it.You "self medicate", it could be with food, alcohol or even drugs and it takes away that pain but only for a little while but you carry on doing it and it becomes a viscous circle. It's hard for your family to deal with. They say to
