Post-traumatic stress disorders can arise when natural self-regulation of a person has no chance to adequately process the experience. Constant uncertainty leads to chronic overloading of the stress axis, resulting in hypersensitivity and various symptoms.

These may include:

• Sleep disturbances
• Tendency towards hyperactivity, hypersensitivity
• Impaired concentration (Reduced storage capacity of information)
• Forgetfulness (Holistic storage of experience no longer functions, memories fade over time)
• Emotional hypersensitivity, such as crying spells, fear of emotional dependence, etc.
• Heightened startle responses, nervousness, anxiety, panic
• (Negative coloring of thinking and increased perception of danger)
• Depression (Positive experiences or things are ignored)
• Frequent drifting, difficulty with attachment, feeling of unreachability
• (Stress memories cause the mind to wander and make the person frequently untouchable)
• Feeling of untouchability & fear of vulnerability (Fear of attachment and touch)
• Obsession with control or loss of control; compulsive or addictive behavior
• Fatigue, exhaustion (Long-term activation of survival instincts consumes enormous energy)
• Immobility of the musculoskeletal system (Stiffening reactions inhibit vitality)
• Vegetative complaints (Indefinable pain, breathing difficulties, palpitations, dizziness, digestive problems, etc.)