(“I am bad,”
“No one can be trusted,”
‘The world is completely
dangerous,” “My whole nervous system
is permanently ruined”).
[my] inability to experience
(happiness, satisfaction, or loving feelings).
dysphoric mood states [I’m a crab on the beach until I’m not. And what is this cold gray? And what is
this water?]
Finally, some
patterns:
prisoner of [you you you you].
[Are the] inappropriate sexual experiences without physical
violence or injury
interpersonal and intentional?
The event
[is] representative
in dissociative states
that last from a few seconds to several hours or even days,
re-lived and behaved
on a continuum
with loss of reality to complete.
Episodes [of]
seeing someone who resembles [her].
The cue could be a rapid heartbeat
particularly for individuals with highly somatic presentations.
[i feel your hand on my right shoulder]
always or almost always
blame themselves.
Some individuals also experience persistent dissociative symptoms of de-
tach-ment fr-om th-eir b-od-ies
Developmental regression, [my hands turn to claws]
such as having the sensory experience of hearing one’s
thoughts spoken in one or more different voices.
Although adults exposed during later life
may display more
avoidance, hyperarousal, sleep problems,
and crying spells
[there is a sort of] suicidal ideation [in sleep].