Accidents Support Group
This community is dedicated to helping members recover from accidents and unexpected events that have caused emotional and/or physical distress. Some examples of accidents that can cause long-term stress include: Aircraft Accidents, Bicycle Accidents, Car and Motorcycle Accidents, Train accidents, Nuclear accidents, Ship accidents, Workplace accidents.
I don't know where to start or finish...... I hurt my back at work 11 years ago and because my local GP didn't care or believed I was injured left me... This led to a whole new beginning of my life and not in a good sense. It left me needing spinal surgery and left me with a load of ongoing issues!! I lost my job and my identity, also left me with spinal cord damage, partial paralysis, numbness, chronic pain and issues with my bladder control. This obviously left me with debt and deep depression then suicide attempts, to the point I was placed into a mental health facility. I have three beautiful children that were also left to suffer due to me. Now I don't know where to turn to anymore with my pain, there's nothing I haven't tried and the GP's just fob me off.... Please I could really do with some advice, I've had 10 further surgeries and god knows how many more. Please please help with some advice.
I cannot imagine what you are going through. As cliche as this sounds try to maintain your focus on healing and all the positives in life, like your children. You are alive and breathing, and where your health may not be the same, try to figure out what works for your "new" life. I, too, was involved in a motor vehicle accident in 2012. For a year the doctor kept saying I was fine, tests were normal, etc. But I felt horrible still and even more frustrated because I did not feel like myself anymore. I have chronic headaches, which scared the living daylights out of me, neck pain, trouble sleeping, numbness in my left arm and fingers. Actually, to this day I still have the neck/shoulder/arm thing. I've learned to live with it and ignore some of the sensations because I know where they are coming from.
I also know first hand how anxiety and depression can make symptoms WAY worse. That was the case for me as well. I started praying, and trying to remember that my anxiety was way worse than the actual issue. I try to stay calm. Most the time I succeed, but there are days I fail big time. If this happens, I try to sleep it off and look forward to tomorrow to try again.
You have a family, yourself to live the best life you can. You deserve this! You have suffered enough mentally. Give yourself a break and speak positivity and life to yourself and your circumstance.
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds WE ARE HEALED." - Isaiah 53:5
Hurt and the Healer by Mercy Me (song)