I have asked my self this question over and over since my accident in May of 2011.
After the onset of the accident and the physical pain that ensued, I found myself totally unable to find a comfortable position to sleep. I lived on the family couch for just over a year and a half!
I did not want to wake up my family as I struggled to sleep. For much of the first year following the accident I slept less than a few hours a night and it would take all night to accumulate those hours.
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The National Sleep Foundation states:
Some people with sleep problems and anxiety
have post-traumatic stress
disorder, or PTSD.
PTSD is a reaction to a traumatic stressful event
resulting in a feeling of a loss of control and an
inability to help
yourself in a bad situation.
It’s often experienced by people
who are in
situations that range
from combat to rape,
but it can be caused by a
variety of events.
I will be honest: At the beginning, I spent hours and hours awake at night crying due to the lack of sleep, physical pain and emotional drain.....
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