Common Reactions
- Finding it difficult to concentrate or make decisions
- Constantly replaying events in your head, imagining “what if?” scenarios
- Disrupted sleep due to bad dreams or lying awake worrying
- Feeling stressed, overwhelmed, tearful or anxious
- Guilt or shame about past actions
- Negative expectations about the future
Trauma responses
- Losing a sense of purpose or self-worth
- Intense emotional distress
- Urges or thoughts of self-harm or that life isn’t worth living
- Avoiding life’s normal demands, excessive drug or alcohol use, needing to distract yourself constantly
- Feeling like you don’t care about yourself or others
- Being scared, jumpy or constantly on alert
- Panicky – episodes of racing heart rate, sweatiness, difficulty breathing, dizziness or fainting – or feeling like you might.
Medicare Rebates
Other sources of support
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