BRATTLEBORO — • Dreams and recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, and perceptions
• Acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring, including a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, and flashback episodes
• Intense psychological distress over actions or things that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event
• Feelings of detachment or estrangement from others
• Inability to express loving feelings
• Sense of a foreshortened future (for example, does not expect to have a career, marriage, children or a normal life span)
• Difficulty falling or staying asleep
• Irritability or outbursts of anger
• Difficulty concentrating
• Efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma or activities, places or people that arouse recollections of the trauma