Great article ?

I research and I ask a psychologist I know.

denise

Lisa, Thank you! And YES! I totally grasp what you just wrote. My MC was sent away from home in Buenos Aires by his grandmother when he was 8 years old because his mother was involved with drug gang. As an adult he remembers being raped and thinks he was the cause of a friend's murder. I am working through the different emotions and feelings of affliction. I will be in touch! Thank you so much for your pointer!

Good points! And the original 'Stargate' movie did show Colonel O'Neill's PTSD reactions to the accidental death of his son by shooting.

Awesome! Glad you're finding all these posts helpful. With PTSD and anxiety, those can be really complex with a variety of primary emotions fuelling them. The control and manipulation though, I've found that's more often a response to shame. You can absolutely use both, be sure that readers understand or can intuit which is fuelling a particular scene. Will add a lot of emotional depth. When we blend these complicated emotions, it can lose impact for readers (IMHO).

Oooh - trust (lack of more precisely) is a really good one to use because it reaches out into virtually every aspect of our lives, right. In some tolerable ways and in some not so tolerable ways.