(13) Hair-Triggered Fight/Flight Response
(14) Oversensitivity to Stressful Situations
(15) Suicidal Ideation
By the inner critic, Pete Walker means what Freud refers to as the super-ego. Because Pete Walker discusses pseudo-cyclothymia in detail (pages 256-257), we should also note here that the psychiatric diagnosis of cyclothymia involves the Greek word transliterated as thumos (or thymos), a Greek word used by Plato and Aristotle to refer to a certain part of the human psyche. The virtue associated with this part of the human psyche is courage (Pete Walker identifies courage as a positive characteristic of the fight response pattern, discussed below). See Barbara Koziak's book Retrieving Political Emotion: Thumos , Aristotle, and Gender (2000). I really do not know if Plato or Aristotle or any other ancient Greek recognize, in effect, what psychiatrists refer to as cyclothymia. But I would not be at all surprised to learn that certain ancient Greeks did, in effect, recognize what psychiatrists refer to as cyclothymia. However, Pete Walker's point is that certain people today who are suffering from Cptsd to one degree or another are misdiagnosed as having cyclothymia. Elsewhere, he refers to other common psychiatric misdiagnoses of what are characteristics of Cptsd.
Now, Pete Walker lists 13 key arrested development problems (page 22):
(1) Self-Acceptance
(2) Clear Sense of Identity
(3) Self-Compassion
(4) Self-Protection
(5) Capacity to Draw Comfort from Relationship
(6) Ability to Relax
(7) Capacity for Full Self-Expression
(8) Willpower and Motivation
(9) Peace of Mind
(10) Self-Care
(11) Belief That Life Is a Gift
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