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All she could see was blood and bone and all she could hear was his screams and those of other injured passengers. She learned later that doctors had to amputate Mr Biddle's limbs.

Two years on, the 56-year-old business analyst from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, is still coming to terms with the psychological impact of that day - but specialist therapy gave her a "lifeline" in helping her recover.

She said: "I've woken up at 3am with palpitations and panic. At one point I thought 'I can't live like this' but at the first therapy session they said, 'We know what you're suffering from and we can fix it'. This gave me a glimmer of hope that in time this was something I could put behind me."

It was vital, she said, that specialist treatment is available in the long term, especially as it could take years for some people affected by 7/7 to seek help.

Ms Putnam said: "A lot of people have the symptoms and they don't know why. You feel committed to the dead because you feel they died in your place.

"Troops go to a war zone and they expect this to happen but all I did was to get up for work.

"You end up feeling isolated because you no longer live in the same world as other people - my world is one where trains blow up."