traumatic birth of her son.The Made In Chelsea star, 31, was diagnosed with PTSD after suffering complications while giving birth to her first child, Leo-Hunter, with her partner Ryan Libbey, late last year.In her first Instagram post addressing her mental health since mid-January, Louise revealed the little one had turned 15 weeks old on Monday while expressing her hopes that she is on the road to recovery.‘If I could use a few words to describe the past month they would be: SCARED, CONFUSED, PARALYSED, AND TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL,’ Louise wrote alongside photos of her family.‘My brain keeps deleting memories in order to try and protect itself and it’s so scary.
Trauma and fear have no understanding of time.‘I remember a therapist told me that a few months ago and I didn’t understand what she meant.
Now I do.‘Extremely scary circumstances get trapped in your brain as a fight or flight response and they don’t get processed like other memories.‘They don’t leave with time.
They get trapped in your subconscious.’Louise admitted she had been ‘too scared’ to post about her mental health because she was ‘not even close to feeling like a normal person yet’.She added to her 1.4 million followers: ‘I remember when I first posted about PTSD I got really triggered by comments saying it could take 6/9 months to process and I HATED hearing that.‘I stopped reading everything.
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