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Maya amano. You agree. Reblog

This is so pretty!! 🤩 I am reblogging this so I can remember to figure out where this from later & so I can go… oooh pretty architecture!

Okay I'm officially in love with the new backgrounds for the new story

You're not the only one.

am i the only one who rehearses things i might say in advance? and I don’t mean like my theoretical oscars acceptance speech i mean like what i’ll say to the pizza guy when I answer the door in my pjs

So beautiful....

by  Dona Chen

This is fascinating and good to learn. Thanks for this. Reblogging so I remember.

It's just annoying that people don't realize how much of the way Caleb acts is PTSD. It's like you said, it's not just flashback and outbursts. It's everything. Sensory problems, cognition problems, communications problems. It totally wrecks your brain on every level.

PTSD can effect the brain in so many ways. At its most severe it really can have an enormous impact on nearly every aspect of your life.

It can have a huge impact on people’s cognitive abilities, particularly their memory and attention. This is especially true when it comes to situations that are more emotional, especially if those emotions attached are negative, it the situation is stressful, etc. They will have a harder time paying attention to what’s happening around them and their brain will struggle to properly process the memory, which means the memory of the event will be less than reliable. It also impacts the way the brain processes and reacts to the memory of the trauma. When they have a memory of the trauma, they’re unable to pull themselves out of it. Sometimes they can’t remember parts of the traumatic event, and it’s incredibly common for people with PTSD to, even if they remember it, be unable to talk about a part of the trauma, or even the entire trauma. Their brain is unable to process the memory in a way that allows them to put it into words. This is even true of people who have experienced trauma but don’t suffer from PTSD. 

Attention and memory also impact just day to day life, because in general a brain effected by PTSD has a harder time processing information it takes in. There are also significant sensory issues.  People with PTSD and other trauma disorders experience a great deal of difficulty when it comes to sensory filtering, basically filtering out irrelevant stimuli. (This may also be true of people who have suffered trauma but do not have PTSD as well, but a definitive link has not yet been shown.) Basically, the trauma causes a person to be in a state of hyper alertness, wanting to be aware of everything that’s happening around them so they can catch something bad before it happens, so it takes in everything, every sensory stimuli around them, and it stops filtering out the things that don’t matter. 

PTSD can also cause a difficulty in processing the stimuli that is taken in. The combination of not being able to filter stimuli and not properly processing the stimuli that comes in, or even either one on their own, causes a great deal of confusion and frustration. Issues with processing stimuli can make a person incredibly sensitive to relatively minor stimuli. Processing and filtering issues can also have a physical effect, making someone dizzy, nauseous, give them headaches, make their body ache, etc. They can cause significant anxiety and raise their heart rate. People with sensory issues often just shut down when over stimulated, an attempt to basically just shut out ALL stimuli.

I’ve already talked at length about all the ways communication is impaired by PTSD, and Caleb demonstrates a lot of those problems. 

These effects can be far more profound if they happen during or before the parts of the brain that control such things are developed. Since Caleb was still quite young when everything happened, his brain was likely still developing, so the trauma would likely have a major impact on how the neural connections that are formed in those area. Impulse control, emotional regulation, problem solving skills, understanding consequences, judgment, planning, sequencing and organization, reaction to stimuli, and even more are all things that could have been seriously effected by Caleb’s trauma during neural development. 

So much of Caleb’s disposition, his behavior, and his actions check these boxes for trauma disorders. There are things he’s done that demonstrate possible sensory issues, he’s demonstrated communication issues, his story about what happened to him could demonstrate the kind of memory problems that can come with trauma disorders. And he’s certainly demonstrated symptoms that I’ve discussed elsewhere, like his attempts to control situations and his difficulty trusting people. He’s also had at least one flashback, which is probably the best known symptom of PTSD.

Such a great visual

an explorers pack for every reasonable adventurer

I would be sad if you left, your posts are very amusing.

Reblog if you would be sad if I left Tumblr.

This is incredible

Join us in our talk on Torterra tree care, much needed after our PoGo community day recently.

This is fun, thought I reblog it to remember. I knew most of this from my own deep dives in Arthurian stuff. But Sir Bedivere & sorcery associations is a new one. Huh, I got to hunt down that stuff. Interesting

The English: This is our legendary King Arthur. His bravest knight is named Gawain who cut off a green giants head

The French: That’s cool, but what if his coolest knight was FRENCH and practiced INFIDELITY with the QUEEN

The English: That’s not…

The French: His name is Lancelot.

The English: Okay actually that name frickin rules. Proceed.

Persona 5 Theory

The whole slave and emancipation thing makes me think of Shadows. They are kind of enslaved to whatever Big Bad that comes along maybe the main character will be a Shadow that develops an ego, like Teddie did.