Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. When most hear this phrase, they think of a soldier coming home from war. They think of car crash and disaster victims. They rarely think of people like her. They rarely see the fear in her eye, the panic of her body, the tragedy under her smile, the abuse written in her scars. Her past is hidden but it is everywhere for her. No matter how hard she tries she will never escape it. It plays an endless reel in the back of her mind. An intrinsic tragedy of her worst moments. She pries herself away the best she can but does not always succeed. It has become a balancing act in which she must succeed for if she doesn’t then she will be entranced by her memories. During her entrancement her heart will pound nearly
