I keep all my trim for a brownie baking friend. And it’s good trim coz you know how the longer the manicure the more generous your trim pile becomes coz you get to the stage where you can’t be fucked trimming the smaller buds, so to the trim pile it goes, well she gave me brownies to give to my son and they knocked him lolllll.
I have a layer of PTSD. Not to the degree of your wife of course. I had a difficult childhood, and a violent relationship (tbh I always tried to give as good as I got, we were that awful mix of poison and passion together) where I was beaten to the point of hospitalisation, I have visible scarring on my face I see every day when I look in the mirror as a reminder. I really thought he was going to kill me. While in my everyday life PTSD is manageable, I am still traumatised by nightmares. You can’t control where your subconscious goes when you sleep. I wake up so scared. To the point it can leave me feeling emotionally fragile for days. It’s awful.
Has she sought treatment because I have learned the more you fear and feed it, the bigger the post traumatic stress power becomes. Your fear feeds your brain, and your brain processes that as the thought food it needs.
Eg:-
Me : I feel a bit anxious and scared
Brain: oh you want anxious and scary?! Here‘s every awful moment of your life in high def and to get this to next level, I’m going to make you think you can’t breath, or get to a safe place, even tho you are both breathing and safe.
It is soooooo fucked lollllll