- efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings or conversations associated with the trauma;
- efforts to avoid activities, places or people that arouse recollections of this trauma;
- inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma;
- markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities;
- feeling of detachment or estrangement from others;
- restricted range of affect (eg unable to have loving feelings);
- sense of a foreshortened future (eg does not expect to have a career, marriage, children or a normal life span).
bill hickson May 03, 2002 Link
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