Episode 8: Feeling Crazy

PTSD and Complex PTSD (the variant that is the result of compound trauma over a lifetime) can make you feel like you're completely nuts. Here is Australia the jury of 'experts' is still out on whether an emotional trauma can actually cause the same condition as being shot on the battlefield or surviving a plane crash into the sea. How could it, they say?

But when the man you've invested your whole life in suddenly sheds his skin to reveal the snake he was all along, the shock is something else, man! It's as if a Trojan has taken over your normal computer operating system and begins to infect and devour your hard drive. Your limbic system kicks in, floods your body with fear hormones and adrenalin and you can shift between wanting to fight, freeze or run for your life, but you just can't regain your normal composure from that moment forth. Your body won't let you.

It’s in your body!