I watched it happen

You have every right to feel the way you do. Nobody wants somethings so horrible pictured in there mind. Pray about it, prayer is powerful.

Thinking about it is your brains way of compartmentalizing it, which is an important function that once helped us learn to survive longer as a species. If you are losing sleep or find yourself overly preoccupied with these images get help. Not dealing with it properly can lead to PTSD and future memory and or anxiety based issues. Your brain might need someone professional to help it compartmentalize and deal with this trauma.

My grandma was run over by a firetruck after laying down in the snow naked with burns all over her body, so I can relate. They didn't even know she was still under the truck after two hours.

This can definitely be normal but pay attention to how long it goes on for. Extended periods of anxiety, recurrent thoughts, depression, trouble sleeping, or even flashbacks can mean you have developed some post traumatic stress relating to this event and would benefit from getting some support.

I work in a job where I am often exposed to traumatic or uncomfortable events. Recognising how this effects me and hetting the help I need when i'm not coping well is extrememly important to my mental and physical health.

Personally I will debrief with a trusted friend or counsellor.

If you have trouble for a while look into finding some kind of support that would work for you. Talk, exercise, join a support group for PTSD whatever, but do definitely deal with it.

its normal... jst try nt 2 think about it..

I get a kick out of how all you people who saw something so horrible can't wait to tell someone else all about it including the gory details.Kind of like looky-loos when there's an accident on the road.

Thats nothing.

When I was a kid I saw an accident between a car and an Ambulance. The car flipped over just as the persons head crashed through the glass. The persons head was torn off his body.

And on another occasion at the High School picnic two cars were racing and one hit a pole going so fast that it split in half. Everyone was thrown from the car. One person was ripped in half by the impact and his torso was trapped under a parked car in a driveway.

How about seeing both of those before your 18th birthday...

thankfully he's alive

He lived so get over it. There are worse things in the world than boys getting hit by cars and living. Take it as a lesson: DON'T J WALK!

I know the feeling of seeing stuff like that happen.

from age 5 to 12 I witnessed 7 trainjumpers and seagulls eating from the bodies. (lived 20 meters away from the tracks)
at the 5th jumper I just started laughing.

And when I was 11 a woman got under a bus right next to me.
didnt sleep for a while.
It'll sink somewhere to the back of yer mind after a while.

I know how you feel. I saw an old dog get hit by a pick-up truck once when I was a teenager. I felt my heart sink and I nearly collapsed with total grief. It still haunts me to this day. Unfortunately, we're going to see some really messed up stuff in our lives, but really good things too. Try to replace the bad memories with the good ones.

What you saw what very traumatizing. You probably have post traumatic stress from it which is completely normal and will probably subside. Sorry you had to see that.

Jack off to it, it really "balances" the feelings out so that it isn't so traumatizing. Honestly, jacking off to certain things is like therapy and healing. Move on when it's time though, or you might be the next killer rapist, know what I'm saying? I'm not joking, it really works if you do it right.

It could have been worse in so many ways.
If he died, and you could have stopped it from happening, then you would have probably of torn yourself apart by now over it.
Normal.

What I am going to say could either further your depression and horror, or fix many of the problems you have faced and will ever face.

If you consider the minor scale of what happens ever day, thousands of people are hit by cars. A fair percentage of those people die. Each day, hundreds of thousands of animals die. And yet, we're one planet in the midst of quadrillions of nearby planets. The universe is enormous and the end result is that we're all insignificant. Logically, the death of the most famous person or least famous person on this planet wouldn't send the slightest shiver down the spine of the multiverse. Enjoy the little things in life and cherish what you have.

I get how you feel, I witnessed my own mother break her ankle so badly that her bone was sticking out and blood was everywhere. I was literally a basket case waiting for the ambulance, over-wrought with sympathy just crying and pacing. I still think about it sometimes and that sympathy and horrible feeling comes back (it happened 3 years ago) but it lessons with time. Then again, I got to also watch my mom get better and that helped. Lol, I also got to bitch the fuck out of a nurse at the ER when I was told she hadn't received any pain medication yet -- also soothed the soul a little. Just hang in there, time does indeed heal all wounds.

Although I haven't experienced anything similar, try to focus on the positives of the situation. Such as the fact that the boy lived, and presumably the driver of the car was unharmed. It will take you a while to get over it but don't worry, your brain is programmed to handle things like shock.

I've seen many things that might brake you down OP. But it's quite normal to think be like that. Most of the stuff I've seen has been from the Internet, but once when I was going home from a Speedway tournament a guy on got run over by a big truck, the blood and brain was all spread out on the ground, whilst my dad was running there to help him (He was a medic in the marine) He tried to help him, holding half of his head that was cracked up. My sister drove us home and when dad came back the other day he told us that he had died and stuff. I couldn't stop thinking about it for a week but then I could live with it. What doesn't kill you only make you stronger, think about it in that way.

People die, shit happens. Human body can be destroyed in so many ways.

I know exactly how you feel. I was on a big road in Michigan after a red wings victory and the girl next to me got ran over by a bus. Her blood was all over me. IT WAS HORRIBLE! I went to therapy and it helped a lot. i kind of just repressed all the details of the incident. I wish you the best of luck.

couple of years ago i had seen the same thim a little girl was at the crossing and she had started to walk across the road when she was hit by a car and she was thrown up in the air then she hit the next car coming through and the car that had hit her just took off and let her there for dead hut the second car thaat she had hit stoped and to see ii she was alright she had gotten up but was unable to walk so a couple of us had carried her to the side of the road to wait for the police and ambulance

It's normal to feel a little traumatized and even to have some misplaced guilt after an incident like that. When I was about 8 or 9 years old, I saw a stray neighborhood kitten get hit by a car. It horrified me, so I can't even imagine what it must have been like for you to see a human being get hit by a car.

But anyway... Your feelings are normal, but if they start disrupting your life, like having nightmares or flashbacks, it could benefit you to see a counselor about it.

i have seen worse man this guy in atlantic city busted his head open an ther was blood everywere my family an i were the first people to see it. i too cant keep it off my mind.

As a horrible sight it must have been, you're actually pretty lucky to have witnessed that. To witness how life could be taken away so easily, and how glorious life can be. You appreciate life more after you realize that.

You'd be really sick if you weren't disturbed by such a thing.
You'll probably never forget it, but your brain will learn to deal with it fairly soon.

Yes this is normal but don't not think about it. This happened to my little brother while my fam went on a study abroad to Vienna. It is important to know what's in this world; if seeing a kid get hit by a car makes you feel sick fir months then you must not understand the world. Sit down and read All Quiet on the Western Front. Good book

Meh.. i would've laughed.

my friend was hit by a car last may he lived but was knocked out of his shoes literally he had this giant mark on his face but that healed he was crossing the intersection neer his skool wid his friends but he got hit wen they were alrede on the side walk the person who hit them was a blonde woman it was a hit and run and she hasnt been found he was at another skool as me so i didnt no and that was the day b4 my bday party so he couldnt go

I'm afraid that death and suffering are all part of life. How young are you that you have not been exposed to something like this before.

The world is a horrifically violent place. I remember the first time i saw a young man being stabbed to death by another young man. It is so different to television, I was in shock for days. But now that i have seen so much, i am in some ways desensitised.

Get used to witnessing suffering now. It is never in short supply