I Will Keep An Eye Out For This When Around Friends’ Vehicles. There’s A Missing Cat In My Neighbor

This so cool!!

CH

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.

Milo!!! He was my hero growing up. Atlantis makes me so nostalgic and it still holds up.

tonite’s wisdom: milo atlantis….cute

Please reblog and add your nationality in the tags along with what you answered! I'm very curious about this; and it's not to shame anybody, so don't be rude!

reblogging for future reference. 

Ambient sounds for writers

Find the right place to write your novel… 

Nature

Arctic ocean

Blizzard in village

Blizzard in pine forest

Blizzard from cave

Blizzard in road

Beach

Cave

Ocean storm

Ocean rocks with rain

River campfire

Forest in the morning

Forest at night

Forest creek

Rainforest creek

Rain on roof window

Rain on tarp tent

Rain on metal roof

Rain on window

Rain on pool

Rain on car at night

Seaside storm

Swamp at night

Sandstorm

Thunderstorm

Underwater

Wasteland

Winter creek

Winter wind

Winter wind in forest

Howling wind

Places

Barn with rain

Coffee shop

Restaurant with customers

Restaurant with few customers

Factory

Highway

Garden

Garden with pond and waterfall

Fireplace in log living room

Office 

Call center

Street market

Study room from victorian house with rain

Trailer with rain

Tent with rain

Jacuzzi with rain

Temple

Server room

Windmill

War

Fictional places

Chloe’s room (Life is Strange)

Blackwell dorm (Life is Strange)

Two Whales Diner (Life is Strange)

Star Wars apartment (Star Wars)

Star Wars penthouse (Star Wars)

Tatooine (Star Wars)

Coruscant with rain (Star Wars)

Yoda’s hut with rain ( Star Wars)

Luke’s home (Star Wars)

Death Star hangar (Star wars)

Azkaban prison (Harry Potter)

Hogwarts library with rain (Harry Potter)

Ravenclaw common room (Harry Potter)

Hufflepuff common room (Harry Potter)

Slytherin common room (Harry Potter)

Gryffindor common room (Harry Potter)

Hagrid’s hut (Harry Potter)

Hobbit-hole house (The Hobbit)

Diamond City (Fallout 4)

Things

Dishwasher

Washing machine

Fireplace

Transportation

Boat engine room

Cruising boat

Train ride

Train ride in the rain

Train station

Plane trip

Private jet cabin

Airplane cabin

Airport lobby

First class jet

Sailboat

Submarine

Historical

Fireplace in medieval tavern

Medieval town

Medieval docks

Medieval city

Pirate ship in tropical port

Ship on rough sea

Ship cabin

Ship sleeping quarter

Titanic first class dining room

Old west saloon

Sci-fi

Spaceship bedroom

Space station

Cyberpunk tearoom

Cyberpunk street with rain

Futuristic server room

Futuristic apartment with typing

Futuristic rooftop garden 

Steampunk balcony rain

Post-apocalyptic

Harbor with rain

City with rain

City ruins turned swamp

Rusty sewers

Train station

Lighthouse

Horror

Haunted mansion

Haunted road to tavern

Halloween

Stormy night

Asylum

Creepy forest

Cornfield

World

New York

Paris

Paris bistro

Tokyo street

Chinese hotel lobby

Asian street at nightfall

Asian night market

Cantonese restaurant

Coffee shop in Japan

Coffee shop in Paris

Coffee shop in Korea

British library

Trips, rides and walkings

Trondheim - Bodø

Amsterdam - Brussels

Glasgow - Edinburgh

Oxford - Marylebone

Seoul - Busan

Gangneung - Yeongju

Hiroshima

Tokyo metro

Osaka - Kyoto

Osaka - Kobe

London

São Paulo

Seoul

Tokyo

Bangkok

Ho Chi Minh (Saigon)

Alps

New York

Hong Kong

Taipei

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JjhF5uuyzo)

I got...

Resurrection - that’s always useful

Self-Spawn - well that’s unnerving...

Click twice. I got wings and weather manipulation. Flap flap, zap zap!

This is gorgeous, this so relaxing this village is beautiful 🤩

thinking about this here canal village in the netherlands

This is cool, and interesting there’s three big meeting of superheroes and the only ones who don’t descend in fighting each other over differences in opinion are Supergirl and the Flash. I don’t mind the conflict that other pairings have, but it’s refreshing to have superheros interact and it be fun. I’m really looking forward to see all of these though.

  ♫ One of these things is not like the others…  ♫

Wow

For all your future scenario needs of “trapped in a murder house with freaking Bloody Mary”.

The Oracula is a new wraith that will be in the Book of Beautiful Horrors: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByEZ_EOCyILZTzhxdk5BQWpsWmc