
Michelle Partington
HSC Cert, SAC Dip, MCPara, MCMI, RAF
MCH, UKMichelle Sanderson holds the Queens Commission. She served for 23 years as a frontline paramedic in the Royal Air Force. Her life experience caused her to have a breakdown resulting in a diagnosis of complex PTSD. Currently she is in the process of transitioning into civilian life and wishes to share her story in the hope of raising awareness of mental health illness and associated stigma attached. Sanderson is in the process of writing a book and is a blogger.
Michelle Sanderson holds the Queens Commission. She served for 23 years as a frontline paramedic in the Royal Air Force. Her life experience caused her to have a breakdown resulting in a diagnosis of complex PTSD. Currently she is in the process of transitioning into civilian life and wishes to share her story in the hope of raising awareness of mental health illness and associated stigma attached. Sanderson is in the process of writing a book and is a blogger.
Case Study - A Journey through complex PTSD
There was just under 7000 suicides in the UK in 2013. Mental health illness is very real yet stigma is still so prevalent causing people to take their own lives instead of sourcing health. I planned the way I was going to kill myself because I couldn't cope with what was happening to me. As a child I was mentally, physically and sexually abused but buried this experience to the back of my mind. As an adult, I served on the front line in Afghanistan as a paramedic, picking up mutilated,...

