Reply To: Mental Health

[kerry]

I know a girl who fights every day. She has PTSD and anorexia, often very depressed and I admire her courage in fighting every day. She too has looked for help for the basic causes and found nothing, as you say, plenty of chemicals but no real help. Her mother is quite wealthy and would pay for treatment if only they could find the right course to take. It’s tragic to watch her struggling ALL the time and her life is passing her by totally dominated by her issues. These people deserve so much more. She has taken herself to A&E on more than one occasion and they treat her like dirt, leaving her worse than when she went in. She has said to me that she wants to eat but sometimes she physically can’t get past the mental block… she knows she is thin (to say the least) and it’s not about a fear of putting on weight… it’s all tied up with the PTSD.

I feel very sad for these people and wish so much I could help. I can’t begin to imagine the mental torment that goes on in their mind every day.