One of the more visible ways my PTSD manifested, after a summer where I was 100% convinced that if I told anyone else what was going on, someone would die, was a stutter any time I got near the topic. My body was stopping me from speaking about it. You could ignore the other stuff, the quickly suppressed panic when phones rang and the paranoia about fallible human memory combined with the paranoia about leaving written notes even in password-protected files. You could not ignore the stutter.
I imagine Cordelia would have had an aversion to certain branches of psychiatry after that. And I don't recall Barrayar getting mental health services in Cordelia's general push for medicine there...
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Date: 2016-06-09 10:27 pm (UTC)I imagine Cordelia would have had an aversion to certain branches of psychiatry after that. And I don't recall Barrayar getting mental health services in Cordelia's general push for medicine there...