Shell Shock can have a lasting impression, long after the event has passed and damage would seem healed.
It’s one thing to sew flesh and tend to it: you can witness resistance to progress and mend it.
But, when a wound impacts the senses, it burrows deeper than mere impressions.
It can hijack perceptions of safety – and movement made to break caution’s pattern sends out alarm signals for mitigating.
This gets misdiagonsed as procrastinating while the system attempts to recalibrate
