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- Dec 31, 2018
"I knew I had pretty bad PTSD over, you know, being hunted like an animal for half a decade"



Jake Alley said:I had a... very educational experience earlier today.
I knew I had pretty bad PTSD over, you know, being hunted like an animal for half a decade, but you know what I didn't know until this morning?
There is a thing I can be shown without warning that brings all the images of cute animals being gruesomely murdered and dead human bodies being mutilated which I had blocked out all come flooding back at once, just as vividly as when I first saw them.
So... that's a thing I know now.
And also it's 11 PM, and I am out of tissues.
Isn't that weird?
I was going to use this as a jumping off point for discussing how PTSD works and how people misuse the word "trigger" and maybe get into how sheltered little baby men who have never and will never experience trauma throw out the sort of thing that caused this incident because of some weird need to constantly test boundaries coupled with a complete lack of understanding why any boundaries of any sort exist, but frankly I'm still pretty damn not OK over here so I think I'm just going to lay down for a while instead.