Louise Thompson has revealed that she ‘broke down in tears’ as she shared an emotional post about her PTSD recovery to Instagram on Monday.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 33, has been battling PTSD and anxiety following her son’s traumatic birth in November 2021 after she spent five weeks in hospital after nearly dying.
Now the TV personality shared an update with her 1.4million followers revealing that she can finally ‘see clearly again’.
Sharing a gallery of pictures of herself, Louise looked incredible as she dressed up in an eye catching dazzling orange and pink-ombre long sleeved dress.
She penned: ‘Here’s a reminder that a lot can change in a year. A lot can change in 6 months. Indeed a lot can change in a month but it’s hard to witness the change until you create some sizeable distance from it.
Louise Thompson has revealed that she ‘broke down in tears’ as she shared an emotional post about her PTSD recovery to Instagram on Monday
Now the TV personality shared an update with her 1.4million followers revealing that she can finally ‘see clearly again’
‘I’m crying writing this. I’m feeling very emotional today. I can’t lie it feels nice to purge my pain. I encourage you to try writing and crying too. Sometimes it helps.
‘But the main reason I’m writing this is because I really want you guys to know that you must keep moving forward. Don’t give up. Because there will be a time when you will want to wear a pretty party dress again. You will shine again.
‘I hated all that nonsense about happy girls being the prettiest girls because it’s not always easy to be happy. But I promise you that over time the pain inside you will die down and you will have good thoughts again. And if Roald Dahl’s words are anything to go by then those thoughts will start to shine out of your face like sunbeams.
Louise went on to say she is not longer in her own head all time and feels like she can ‘plan for a future’.
She continued: ‘I now have moments where I truly feel more lovely than ever before. And my perspective continues to change as each new month passes. It’s cool. I’m learning so much.
‘There is a big difference between living your life within a 1m radius vs a 1 mile radius. The way you see the world. Your perception of things widens.
‘You can extend your vision to tomorrow, next week, next month etc. You can plan for a future. You can get excited about saving and spending and about seeing people.
‘Man you can actually get off the sofa and walk outside. (Although I’ll admit I still live aspects of my life in self preservation mode). I struggle to exercise or to over exert myself mentally or socially and I detest being out of a routine (MY routine) after 7pm.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 33, has been battling PTSD and anxiety following her son’s traumatic birth in November 2021 after she spent five weeks in hospital after nearly dying
Sharing a gallery of pictures of herself, Louise looked incredible as she dressed up in an eye catching dazzling orange and pink ombre long sleeved number
Louise said she is not longer in her own head all time and feels like she can ‘plan for a future’
She penned: ‘Here’s a reminder that a lot can change in a year. A lot can change in 6 months. I’m crying writing this. I’m feeling very emotional today. I can’t lie it feels nice to purge my pain’
‘BUT now when I go on a walk I can see trees and people smiling and the sunshine. Instead of just being caught up in one’s head and wondering when all the bulls*** spinning around it is going to go away.
She concluded: ‘It feels so nice to be able to see clearly again. To see the world for what it is. To stretch the imagination. To not strictly be confined to the present… despite always striving to live a more present life.
‘Keep trucking on. Better days are coming. #ptsd #ptsdrecovery’.
Taking to her Instagram Story, Louise also shared an adorable video of herself dancing in her kitchen with son Leo, two, who she shares with fiancé Ryan Libbey, 33.
The mother and son were all smiles as Leo copied Louise’s dance moves while standing in his highchair.
On Tuesday, Louise shared a mirror selfie as she admitted she ‘gets so scared to exercise’ as she ‘feels immensely drained’.
She wrote: ‘As expected I feel immensely drained today which I hate. It’s more than just fatigue. I don’t know exactly what is going on but I can’t try to explain what is going on but I’ll try to explain what it feels like.
‘It feels like my body can’t recover/replenish the stress hormones that my brain needs to function properly on subsequent days following exercise.
Taking to her Instagram Story, Louise also shared an adorable video of herself dancing in her kitchen with son Leo, two, who she shares with fiancé Ryan Libbey, 33
On Tuesday, Louise shared a mirror selfie as she admitted she ‘gets so scared to exercise’ as she ‘feels immensely drained’
Difficult times: Louise has revealed that she didn’t talk to her fiancé Ryan Libbey for six months and ‘couldn’t look at him’ after the traumatic birth of their son
‘It feels like the neurons in my brain aren’t connecting properly. They’re not working like they should. It’s so annoying because I didn’t do any cardio, I didn’t massively push. I just did some low-key weighted strength stuff.
‘Ryan says I should just keep pushing through, but I get so scared to exercise and it’ll never be worth it if I continue to feel like this.’
The snaps come after Louise revealed in August that she didn’t talk to her fiancé Ryan for six months and ‘couldn’t look at him’ after the traumatic birth.
She confessed: ‘Ryan and I didn’t have a proper conversations for months and months after the trauma of having Leo. We didn’t talk at all. Very limited talking for the first 6 months of his life.’
‘We would sit in silence at our kitchen table every single evening. Couldn’t muster a peep. Couldn’t even look at his face.
‘I don’t think I asked him a single question until Leo was at least 4 months old. I didn’t even really recognise him as a person in my home. (Before you think i’m a total monster he didn’t ask how I was either).
‘It was a mutual paralysis. Things were so dire, we couldn’t even register how weird this behaviour was. It’s only on reflection that I recognise how strange it is.
‘We only spoke about what had happened (the medical incidents) for the first time this year. That’s over 1 year later. And that’s the person that I live with. My life partner.
‘It was impossible to talk about things whilst still living in the terror. It was too raw. Too painful.’