Sorry, I know Chat maybe isn't the best place for this, but I didn't know where to put it...
I had an accident at work recently. Fortunately no long-term effects and fairly minor short term ones. But it could have been fatal and I was very lucky - a wire came loose in a piece of equipment and it earthed through me when I touched it.
There's an investigation now, so it doesn't happen again but it's really hard to keep talking through it with all different people (and some are really pushing me to 'defend' how it happened). I have obvious dressings on the burns too so colleagues keep asking.
Although I've been back in I haven't gone back to the room where it happened (it's locked up). I've also had a couple of panic attacks, which I hate because I feel so out of control! I've had nightmares about it too, which logically I know is just my brain working through it.
It was very unlucky, just one of those things and it won't happen again. But I'm so scared I'll lose my nerve - I can't do much work at the moment because of the burns and I think the longer I'm out the harder it will be. Everybody's being very nice and I probably won't have to use the equipment again, but I just feel a little bit useless at the moment.
Has anybody had a similar nasty experience and roughly how long did it take for you to feel normal? I hate feeling like this 