As Pete Walker delineates Cptsd, we may wonder how many, if any, people do NOT suffer from it to one degree or another. For example, road rage (pages 211-213) is but one widely known manifestation of underlying unresolved emotional traumatization of Cptsd. Road rage involves what Pete Walker refers to as emotional flashbacks that are triggered by amygdala hijackings (Daniel Goleman's term; page 145).
In his accessible book Emotional Intelligence (1995), the science writer Daniel Goleman says, "The idea of the limbic system as the brain's emotional center was introduced neurologist Paul D. MacLean more than forty years ago" (page 312, note 3).
In any event, amygdala hijackings can vary in degree and length from relatively mild and brief emotional flashbacks (e.g., road rage) to intense and sustained emotional regressions. Hopefully, both emotional flashbacks and serious emotional regressions can be worked through and processed in the service of the ego-consciousness and building up ego strengths.
Now, Pete Walker lists 15 common Cptsd symptoms (pages 6-7):
(1) Emotional Flashbacks
(2) Tyrannical Inner and/or Outer Critic
(3) Toxic Shame
(4) Self-Abandonment
(5) Social Anxiety
(6) Abject Feelings of Loneliness and Abandonment
(7) Fragile Self-Esteem
(8) Attachment Disorder
(9) Arrested Developmental Problems
(10) Relationship Difficulties
(11) Radical Mood Vacillations (e.g, Pseudo-Cyclothymia)
(12) Dissociation Via Distracting Activities or Mental Processes
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