John Robins
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2,358 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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The irony.
Were you aware that, like you said, you were avoiding any situation which might cause you pain?
So that there is, I guess, symptoms of PTSD that are coming from what to the outside world is, oh, she's in hospital.
She's getting better.
She's getting the treatment she needed.
That's when we as kind of like maybe if we've read about it on the news or we're relaxed then because, okay, she's in the right place.
She's getting better.
Not knowing that it's actually, like you said, as more traumatic than being burned.
Well, you do say in the book that you would rather be burned again than have PTSD.
And I think that statement is only truly comprehensible to people who've experienced it.
And you really do as good a job as I think it's possible to do of communicating that experience to someone who hasn't been through PTSD.
Do you remember, looking back now, the sort of first symptoms or the first, and it may well have been when you were still in hospital, that you recognized from the work you've done was PTSD?
And I think probably we have an idea, those who haven't been through it, of some common tropes of what we might have seen of PTSD in films.
So like waking up in the middle of the night in sweats during a nightmare or being really like a car backfires and you sort of jump and...
I'm sure those things are big features of some people's PTSD.
What you described so well are the things that perhaps wouldn't make sense to a film director who was trying to show these symptoms like sudden anger, uncontrollable crying over very small things.
Could you talk about some of those symptoms that have made, that led you to say, I would rather get burned again than go through this because
It sounds awful.
Well, I want to sort of finish by talking about those techniques you learned.
But one question I had before then is you're very honest about the impact of your behavior on those around you and your relationships.
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