PTSD cannot be diagnosed in the first month. We don’t know yet if we’re going to get our shit back together or not. Those first thirty days are critical. We need time and space to recover, to process what happened, to find ways to make sense of how we want the world to work and our experience of how life actually unfolds. In this time, we need relational supports. Our brains are hardwired to connect, and we get better in connection to other people.
