Struggling because of the coronavirus lockdown? A charity set up in the wake of the Manchester Arena atrocity is offering free trauma therapy
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukA mental health charity set up in the wake of the Manchester Arena attack is providing a free online therapy for people who have been traumatised by the coronavirus crisis.
Businessman Sean Gardner was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder following the 2017 suicide bombing - he was in the foyer when the blast happened, saw unimaginable horrors and spent almost two hours looking for his daughter following an Ariana Grande concert.
He later found his uninjured daughter - but the pair were among the 670 people who suffered psychological trauma because of the bombing.
He improved thanks to a therapy known as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and then set up a charity, the Trauma Response Network, to offer others who
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