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Old Oct 22, 2011, 05:56 PM
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Well, it has only been a year since her bad experience. I guess the best thing you can do is listen. People who go through something like that where it presents PTSD symptoms often just need to repeat it as if to say can you believe this happened? And the best you can do is to keep reminding your friend that yes it did happen but she is safe now. You can also say, it was not her time, she has lots of time left to live and experience life. Perhaps it was only to remind her that her life is precious and she should remember that.

Try to be positive, but don't refuse her feelings, and don't add to them either, just listen.
It takes time to recover from that kind of scare, and hopefully she has nothing bad in her past that begins to haunt her, that is what happened to me.

Open Eyes
Thanks for this!
Irine