I was in a major car crash on Friday on the way home from work. I was hit HARD from behind (per the police it was her fault) and then hit the car in front of me. Their cars were algiht, but not mine. Half of the hood is curled up and the fron right door won't open. I do not know it it is salvagle. There are many details, but they;re nit important here.

I think I'm alright physically. EVERYTHING hurts but I think that that's normal, that's it's just muscular.

But mentally I'm a mess. I cry at the drop of a hat, I'm having flashbacks of the accident, I'm scared of everything. All I want to do is sleep and forget and I'd rather not get up.

I was already depressed. My mother has advanced MS and a recent diagnosis of cancer. I've been going to her appointments (where she lives 1.5 hours away) and otherwise helping her. It's hard when she won't help herself, she's still refusing homecare.

But now I'm at the end of my rope.

The EMT at the scene wanted me to go to the hospital. He asked about meds and I started to tell him and then I said I had BP because I couldn't remember all my meds at that moment. I cried. He stopped asking questions and then took my blood pressure. He again pressed me to go to the Emergency Room. I said no because I didn't want my car impounded, I was waiting for AAA to come with a tow truck to take it to a car repair shop.

But I was also worried about how I'd be treated at the ER. Because I was such a mess and crying, would they not look at or really treat my pain and go straight to the BP? Would they have me IP because of the BP (I didn't feel that I could take care of myself. I moved here recently, and know practically no one)?

Have you ever gone to the ER for something physical and then been treated differently because of the BP? Dit they mainly treat you for the BP even though you were there for something else?

THanks