PTSD sufferer: ‘I know how lonely it is to be a victim’

Audrey O’Carroll suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after she was attacked by a man who had ’invaded’ her life, writes Catherine Shanahan

STANDING looking out her kitchen window, two weeks before she was viciously attacked, Audrey O’Carroll experienced a deep sense of foreboding. She said “Audrey, you have isolated yourself”.

“I sort of felt something was building up. I shook my head to try and get rid of that frightening awareness.