Its been 5 years since the earthquake in Haiti and today I decided to open up a bit about the PTSD Ive dealt with since. I had the indications that this was more than stress. My thinking was cloudy. I was easily overwhelmed. I was incapacitated by noise, by surprises, by crowds, by chitchat. And I was experiencing sensory issues with anything that reminded me of the earthquake. The loud rumble of the neighbor taking out the trashcans sent me into a spiral. The sensation of a person shaking their foot in a seat next to mine could make me come unglued. The sound of the dishwasher switching cycles . . . the sensation of being under someone running on the second floor. . . the “trauma clues”, as we therapists say, we there.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:09:00 +0000
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