“You can hear the cat padding around. The air conditioner whooshes, a clock ticks.”
Vivid descriptions is what helps visualize a scene and bring everything to life for the reader. Visualization is key. Painting a visualized picture from words makes the setting and greatly helps the reader.
“Her nose starts running she’s so pissed, and there she is standing in a CVS, snotty and deaf with rage, like some kind of maniac, because a tiny elderly woman needs an extra minute to pay for her dish soap or whatever.”
The attitude of the writer helps describe the feeling and attitude of the tiny elderly women. Emotion helps set the attitude of the setting, and gives the reader emotion as well.
“As with most psychiatric diagnoses, there are no measurable objective biological characteristics to identify it. Doctors have to go on hunches and symptomology rather than definitive evidence.”
The reason’s for PTSD is pretty clear. Doctor’s can understand how it may have came about from past experiences that may be traumatizing, but the problem is what exactly affects the brain? Is this a real disease? Or is it all mentally on the replaying of the past traumatizing experiences over and over again? Doctor’s therefore are left to blindly diagnose based on symptoms rather than definitive evidence.
“Some hypotheses for why PTSD only tortures some trauma victims blame it on unhappily coded proteins, or a misbehaving amygdala. Family history, or maybe previous trauma.”
Why PTSD tortures some trauma victims is hard to pin point. Doctor’s obviously know why but they don’t know why it affects some and not others. The way the brain works is mysterious which leads to theories that is could be coded proteins or amygdala because the is not evidence backing PTSD up.
Rowan Counterintuitive 
Good work. Grade neutral.
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