[PurpleFlyingMonkeys]

So I was diagnosed with PTSD some time ago over some traumatic things that happened in my past... I don't think that I do genuinely have ptsd though. I did want to post in here because the people on this thread can relate more to the situation than others... I hope...

Back in August a lot of bad things happened. On the way to the city (we live in a small town) to get myself a birthday present since the one I got had broken, a tow truck driver drove my boyfriend off the road in my car. He was driving and I was asleep in the passengers side. I woke up durring the wreck and it was horrible. We were in a small 2 door hatchback and the vehicle we ended up hitting was a Ford Explorer. The tow truck driver fled the scene but the Explorer was flipped by my little car. It rolled a few times and both vehicles were totalled. Luckily I always wear my seatbelt and make sure my boyfriend does too so we were both OK. For the most part at least. Until the next day when the cops came to my home and arrested my boyfriend under false charges... But that's a different story and has been cleared since.

Since the accident though, even though I must say there were much more life threatening scary moments in my life, I have not been able to drive well. I keep remembering the accident, I can feel the accident sometimes. When it replays in my mind I can still feel the impact of the vehicles and it scares me. This was a while ago, I feel like I should be over it. It has stopped me from renewing my license, trying to get a new car or driving at all. I am about to have to renew my license and drive for 7 hours interstate driving for a move I am making and I don't know what to do. My boyfriend has to drive the moving truck so I have to drive the car and I'm terrified! How do you overcome a fear like this? Am I being irrational? Does anyone on here have the same kind of fear, and if so or even if not, can I please get some advice before I take this long trip, I don't know what I am going to do or if I will be able to make this trip. I have DID from a past event when I was 4. I'm worried that my alters might take over driving and I'm pretty sure what I was told is that DID and PTSD don't normally go together. Which is the reason for doubting PTSD, plus I don't have flashbacks much. Unless you want to call that feeling of the wreck a flashback but I don't think that is called that since I know then and there I am where I am and not in the wreck.

I was just hoping, since everyone with PTSD has to learn to overcome these types of fears I was hoping to maybe get help on how to do it myself, any advice or anything at all would be very appreciated!

[kasva]

hi purple, my daughter was in a horrible crash a few years ago with 2 of her friends. Each of them got back into driving at different speeds. But they all had to get back on the road (even though it was very very difficult for them) and drive in order to be not so obsessed with crashing. Thats really all the advice i can give you. im sorry this happened to you and many people have the reaction that you are having.
Also, i have did and ptsd. it seems like inorder to have did you'd almost have to have ptsd.

[kasva]

i just wanted to add that 2 of the 3 girls went to a t for a short time to get help for the ptsd they suffered from the accident....good luck

[OneRiffTooMany]

my father has battled ptsd (warzones) for my whole life..
this is a difficult one...
but i can only speculate as not having endured his nightmare..
he would have been better off
*looking after his health
*not adopting the "hardman" approach ie talking to his family, making new friends, allow people to understand his fears
*not self medicating with alcohol
*allow the people who love and cared to help
thats the best i can offer
all the best

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys

So I was diagnosed with PTSD some time ago over some traumatic things that happened in my past... I don't think that I do genuinely have ptsd though. I did want to post in here because the people on this thread can relate more to the situation than others... I hope...

Back in August a lot of bad things happened. On the way to the city (we live in a small town) to get myself a birthday present since the one I got had broken, a tow truck driver drove my boyfriend off the road in my car. He was driving and I was asleep in the passengers side. I woke up durring the wreck and it was horrible. We were in a small 2 door hatchback and the vehicle we ended up hitting was a Ford Explorer. The tow truck driver fled the scene but the Explorer was flipped by my little car. It rolled a few times and both vehicles were totalled. Luckily I always wear my seatbelt and make sure my boyfriend does too so we were both OK. For the most part at least. Until the next day when the cops came to my home and arrested my boyfriend under false charges... But that's a different story and has been cleared since.

Since the accident though, even though I must say there were much more life threatening scary moments in my life, I have not been able to drive well. I keep remembering the accident, I can feel the accident sometimes. When it replays in my mind I can still feel the impact of the vehicles and it scares me. This was a while ago, I feel like I should be over it. It has stopped me from renewing my license, trying to get a new car or driving at all. I am about to have to renew my license and drive for 7 hours interstate driving for a move I am making and I don't know what to do. My boyfriend has to drive the moving truck so I have to drive the car and I'm terrified! How do you overcome a fear like this? Am I being irrational? Does anyone on here have the same kind of fear, and if so or even if not, can I please get some advice before I take this long trip, I don't know what I am going to do or if I will be able to make this trip. I have DID from a past event when I was 4. I'm worried that my alters might take over driving and I'm pretty sure what I was told is that DID and PTSD don't normally go together. Which is the reason for doubting PTSD, plus I don't have flashbacks much. Unless you want to call that feeling of the wreck a flashback but I don't think that is called that since I know then and there I am where I am and not in the wreck.

I was just hoping, since everyone with PTSD has to learn to overcome these types of fears I was hoping to maybe get help on how to do it myself, any advice or anything at all would be very appreciated!

no you are not being irrational. Post Truamatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is experiencing stress, anxiety, flashbacks, phobias, nightmares.. and many other things, alone or in combination after experiencing something traumatic. in this case a car accident.

since its driving thats affecting you how about asking your boyfriend if you and he can rent a flat bed, trailer (what ever its called in your area). its for towing things like boats, cars, trucks. then all you need to do is attach the tow cables of the flat bed to the moving truck, your boyfriend drives the car up onto the flat bed and sets the brake and your off.

another suggestion drive the car up into the moving truck, he takes the car to the new location by driving the moving truck with the car inside it. then he comes back and you and he load up the moving truck as normal. and you all are off to your new location together..

another suggestion pay a friend to do the driving for you...

by the way I just have to say this. who ever told you, PTSD and DID cant go together are wrong..

DID is the result of a child undergoing trauma and PTSD is caused by a person or child undergoing trauma.

they can and do most times walk hand in hand. each can be had separately but they also can be had together. just like someone can have depression and DID, or bipolar disordered people can also have DID.

there are many people in the world that have dual diagnosises. some directly imp[act or are caused by the same things that cause the first disorder. PTSD is one such disorder that is very common to survivors of DID.