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Narrative of Trauma: “consequences of chronic stress/dysregulation w/ repeated fight/flight responses…the game illustrates what happens when this response is never turned off. Expecting/preparing for the worst at any moment is the result of feeling unsafe/helpless…this insecurity/loss of control is a key factor in developing hypervigilance/anxiety, survival/coping mechanisms=constantly ready to act in a crisis

“Poetry breaks a subject open, fiction grows from the break.”

“I was never allowed to be angry, was I? My ability to discover and understand the power of my own raging was a thing denied to me. Until, at last, I learned to stop denying myself.”