Her Mother’s Trauma
Years after, Terry Probyn still struggles with her anger towards her daughter’s kidnappers and the failure from the police. She told Diane Sawyer, “It does eat at me, still to this day. I know I have to channel that anger into something good, because it will eat me alive…if I let it.” Although her daughter has been home for almost a decade, she still fills with terror whenever she’s not home. Probyn said, “The thoughts flood, ‘Is she going to come back? Am I ever going to see her again?’ And then I’ll hear her skulking around the kitchen and I’ll think, ‘Oh, it’s OK! She is here, she is home.'”
Her Mother’s Trauma
Coping With Trauma
After being rescued, Jaycee Dugard works on her trauma in many ways. One way she helps herself is to go to a horse ranch owned by Dr. Rebecca Bailey, a therapist who uses the animals to help trauma victims regain their confidence. Bailey said, “One of the most important things of working with survivors of abduction is allowing them to have choices in every single thing they do. Those things happened to her; they’re not who she is.”
Coping With Trauma
