PTSD signs and other symptoms of poor mental health, wrapped in a single package i.e. this heavily damaged lad in Labyrinth Runners.
Avoiding and denying.
Hypervigilance and flashbacks.
Sweating.
And eventually shaking after trying to hold it off.
Panic attacks.
Flinching.
Intellectualising when Gus promises not to mess with him.
Freezing up.
You know what else? He’s taking longer than we’d like to really open up because he has no accurate reference from his childhood of a secure, loving bond in any relationship.
I saw this several times but after today i kinda just wanted to reblog it as a reminder to myself of just how many of these things i’ve been doing lately, and how many i did just TODAY. kinda reminds me why I latch onto characters like this. I’d trick myself into thinking it’s just something wrong with ME if I didn’t have these characters to be compassionate towards.
