On the night of Saturday 25 June, Nikita Amber Abbas happens to be at the London Pub in Oslo with a friend and his girlfriend. For a second they talk together and have a good time. In the next, she lies on the ground with her friend over her. – I was in shock and had a lot of adrenaline, Abbas said. The bullets of the terrorist suspect Zaniar Matapour (43) must then have hit her friend, and both must have fallen to the ground. He was bleeding. She did too, but without knowing it. – I think he saw the perpetrator before me and saw that I was going to be shot. He protected me from the bullets from the perpetrator, she says. This evening is still foggy in Abbas’ memory, and a week after the attack she has not quite been able to take in what actually happened. – I think of an intense feeling of fear. She told the story first in Aftenposten. Drove away my friend Abbas is partially paralyzed and has an illness that makes her have to sit in a wheelchair. And luckily it has room for the hurting buddy. While the chaos raged around, they got their friend in the wheelchair and Abbas drove them far away. – We simply escaped from there, she says. Nikita Amber Abbas can no longer use her favorite wheelchair. Photo: Mathias Moene Rød / news When they had arrived about two kilometers away from the city, they called the ambulance. The friend was picked up, and Abbas went home with the dress covered in blood. – From childhood I have a tendency to flee from things I am not mentally ready to take in. So I went in my tendencies and chose to go home and try to sleep it off me. At this point, Abbas had no idea that she was also injured. Before the emergency room call a couple of hours later. That was when I realized that when Abbas came home she threw the bloody dress in the trash. – I wanted to get rid of all kinds of evidence that the night happened at all. I do not want to have anything that could remind me of what I had been through, she says. Then the Emergency Room called and wondered if she was also injured. “I do not know,” she replied. Then they asked her to check. – That was when I realized it. The blood on my dress was not only from my friend, but also from me. The bullet must have passed through his friend and even up inside Abbas. She met an area where she was lame, which may be why she did not know anything. Nikita Amber Abbas: Lololol Nikita Amber Abbas: It turns out I was shot after all Nikita Amber Abbas: And now I have to go to the hospital Nikita Amber Abbas: It came through my friend and is in my body and I did not even realize because I am lamb in that area and the emergency room first called now and said they never found itNA Nikita Amber Abbas: Sooo I do not know if I will come on Monday anywayVVenninna: Keep me updated Can not take in what has happened – I throw the dress because it’s like that I handle trauma. I just run away from them, and then I can not have anything that reminds me of trauma, Abbas explains. When she now tells what has happened, it does not feel as if this has happened to herself. – I actually feel like I’m talking about a completely different person. Abbas also failed to use his favorite wheelchair that drove his friend to safety. Nikita Amber Abbas owns two electric wheelchairs. One large with room for two people, and one slightly smaller. Photo: Mathias Moene Rød / news – I get flashbacks when I use that chair, so I struggle to use it now. Then comes the feeling of anxiety and Abbas feels she is in another universe. – These feelings are very common when we are exposed to something unexpected and terribly dangerous, says crisis psychologist Unni Marie Heltne. Is a protective reaction She describes three groups of reactions one can get after such an event. You get very strong resuscitations. You get nightmares, hear noises and get a picture of the event that comes completely unannounced. Your body can get tense and you get splashed. Then you tend to react strongly to sudden movements or if someone, for example, hides in you. You start avoiding things that are reminiscent of the event. It can be stadar, clothes you have worn or objects. These feelings can also sit for a good while after the event, explains Heltne who has worked with people in crisis after disasters and accidents for many years. Some are completely numb just when they are in the dangerous situation, and this feeling of being numb can sit in even after the situation is over. This can have several explanations: – When the feelings become numb, we can manage to get out of the dangerous situation without panicking. Another explanation is that we become so afraid that this named feeling protects us from fear, says Heltne. She emphasizes that if the reactions after the incident do not go away, or that one is bothered with them every day, one should seek help. One place to start is with your GP, says Heltne.
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