12-15-2009, 07:50 PM
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Practically Lives Here
How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Girl of the Unicorn Variety
Preferred Pronoun?: She, as in 'She's a GEM'
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: The roads are narrow here
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Symptoms of PTSD can include:
- Hypervigilance and scanning
- Elevated startle response
- Blunted affect, psychic numbing (check)
- Aggressive, controlling behavior (a high degree of insistence on getting your way) (check)
- Interruption of memory and concentration
- Depression (check)
- Generalized anxiety
- Violent eruptions of rage (check)
- Substance abuse
- Intrusive recall -- different from normal memory in that it brings with it stress and anxiety
- Dissociative experiences, including dissociative flashbacks (check)
- Insomnia
- Suicidal ideation (check)
- Survivor guilt
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