This is My Brain on PTSD

A stream-of-consciousness observation.

A stream-of-consciousness observation.

Photo by Cassidy Kelley on Unsplash

I was writing a story recently about an abusive relationship I’d left over a decade ago when my mind suddenly took a sharp turn and went off road as PTSD took the wheel.

This had not yet happened in the middle of writing anything outside my own personal journal. Because I was caught…