Other symptoms include being being more irritable than usual, gaining or losing weight, having trouble sleeping, finding your self suffering from a lack of interest or a greatly increased interest in sex, or simply not feeling like yourself.

Strange as it seems, all of these symptoms can be direct results of your auto accident, even though they may appear until up to 18 months later. It seems that our bodies are able to compensate for a while. When “mysteriouse” and /or persistent uncomfortable symptoms continue to show up, even months or years later, this book can help you understand possible causes and help you find relief from your symptoms.

Have well-meaning medical professionals suggested that your symptoms are all in your head? Do you fear you may be going crazy? Often when our symptoms become entrenched and our care givers, no matter how well intentioned, are uncertain how to help us, we begin to blame ourselves. Given what happened to you, your trauma symptoms, if you have them, do make sense and often can be significantly reduced when understood and respected. The body is intelligent in its inherent wisdom regarding its own capacity to heal with the proper support. If i could build a billboard for trauma survivors it would say in bold letters, YOU ARE NOT CRAZY! Under that, i might add, YOU CAN HEAL! Your body knows how to heal.

• Showing you that many of your symptoms are a normal result of trauma’s impact on the nervous system.
• Offering case histories to illustrate that others have suffered similar symptoms and how they recovered.
• Providing exercises to be done alone, with a companion, or in conjunction with treatment from health professionals.
• Helping you learn how to relieve your symptoms in a safe and integrating way.
• Releasing survival energy trapped in your nervous system by the accident and making it available to you for other interests and activities.
• Teaching you resiliency-building techniques that will help you overcome past trauma and transform your life.
• Giving you skills that will greatly improve your way of meeting future challenges or dealing with trauma in the future.

If you were injured due to the negligence of another, regardless of the nature of the underlying accident, it is important to contact an experienced Sacramento injury lawyer to discuss your legal options.

The Weinberger Law Firm has the resources and expertise to aggressively litigate your case in court, fighting to get you just compensation for your injury. Call (916) 357-6767 today for a free consultation regarding your Sacramento personal injury case.

According to a paper, “Victims of Traffic Accidents: Incidence and Prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,” (Brom, Kleber and Hofman) accident victims tend to compulsively re-experience parts of the accident or the whole event. They have a tendency not to remember what has happened, be unwilling to discuss the event, or feel emotionally numb. They experience feelings of guilt , depression, behavioral changes, feeling of anger and anxiety, and sleeping disturbances that can last for months or even years.

“In most cases, traffic accidents involve a mixture of psychological, medical and legal consequences that interact in a complex way,” the paper states.

One group of accident victims consists of people who have had persistent moderate to severe symptoms since an auto accident – aches, pains, depression, and anxiety to name but a few. In this group we have many people who don’t know that their symptoms relate to an earlier accident. For example, a doctor recently treated a woman for depression and anxiety that she thought was related to her marital situation. After five weeks of treatment, she recalled an accident that she had six years earlier. She had no idea it was still affecting her. After only two sessions of work on the accident her depression and anxiety were greatly reduced, giving her more energy to tackle her marital problems. In the course of those two sessions, she saw how a number of her symptoms were related. Why she had pain in her accident, why she got so anxious when she was in the vicinity of her accident, and even why she started smoking again several months after the accident.

Here are some questions to ask yourself:

• Do you prefer to be the driver to feel more in control?
• Did you suffer whiplash in your accident?
• Have you felt anxious about driving ever since your accident?
• Do you wake at night suffering from nightmares or flashbacks about the accident?
• Do you still have pain or headaches that no amount of treatment seems to relieve?
• Do your anger and frustration seem to leak out everywhere?
• Do you avoid the spot where the accident took place?

These are some obvious symptoms resulting from accidents.

If you were injured due to the negligence of another, regardless of the nature of the underlying accident, it is important to contact an experienced Sacramento injury lawyer to discuss your legal options.

The Weinberger Law Firm has the resources and expertise to aggressively litigate your case in court, fighting to get you just compensation for your injury. Call (916) 357-6767 today for a free consultation regarding your Sacramento personal injury case.