What can I do for her ???

[doctora]

We just had something terrible happen. My daughter was driving to work, and the van in front of her hit an old man crossing the street, the van didnt stop, my daughter did, the old mans head hit the sidewalk, and from his ears back his skull and brains were all around the intersection. Her and another woman, covered him in thier coats, and tried to comfort him. She said there was blood squirting out of his eye. Another man stopped but when he saw it, he started throwing up in the ditch. I am very worried, PTSD big time now. The police told her that the man died in the ambulance, and this was now a homocide case. She is only 22, and this has definately thrown her into a spin. I suffer from PTSD, and even though she seems somewhat together now, I know that it will eventually haunt her, how could it not. Aside from giving her love and support, does anyone have any other suggestions?  Not really knowing if the man died for sure, or if the driver who hit her was caught is unknown to us right now, and the waiting is the hardest.

[margypops]

How is your daughter doing now , is she okay ?

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Wow that didn't really bother me until you wrote that he was still alive with his skull and brains splattered around the place, that made me cringe and all I saw was a text recreation of the thing!  I'm sorry but I'm not sure what they can do.  Maybe you can try therapy for it so she can sort the effects it had on her before they become deep rooted.  DOCTOROFMINDMD on youtube said he has a treatment plan for PTSD that is revolutionary that goes in tiers of within hours, days, months, years or something like that from the time of the trauma.  He says it works good but is not generally accepted in the mainstream yet if I remember right and I found patient reviews of him and they are all good.

Maybe this will help you, I couldn't really read it due to concentration problems so I'm not sure if it will but the summary looked good of people being treated early only have like an 8% chance of developing it later.
http://www.sonnetpsych.com/Sonnet_Psychological_Freeport_Maine_psychology_preventing_ptsd.htm

[dustybrown]

OMG! What a horrible thing for your daughter to have witnessed! I noticed your note to Puppy Pup as she is our mutual friend. I just had to comment to you and say that I am sorry to hear about this accident and that your young daughter had to witness such a thing. I have seen an incident such as this happen when I was about her age and it really bothered me for weeks, but I did get over it, if it makes you feel any better.

[margypops]

What a nasty thing to happen I bet your daughter does feel bad, maybe wait for her to come to you oif she needs more support, it depends really how she takes it in a few days , certainly a traumatic incident,if she does seem to be anxious in a week or two maybe a trip to the Doctor to see what he thinks ,have you seen her since the accident ?