Thank you everyone for your replies, I appreciate you all. I will certainly look into it again regarding antidepressants to help with my mood Paula, sorry you are going through that, and Suzi I haven’t had grief counselling. I can’t understand some of the people in my life who say “it was only a cat” I have been through hell because of the way my precious cat was killed and he was like my baby. I do have a son too and I don’t really know why it has affected me so much, but it has and I’ve never been so affected by flashbacks before to this degree, playing over and over in my mind that I kept and get now still. It just hits me out of the blue! I feel I was at a low ebb prior to it, so I think this played a big part!