The survivor as ANP is sometimes able to present a façade of normalcy because the predominate symptoms of ANP are negative. That is, they are losses of function that often result from dissociation and mental avoidance of perceived threat. Losses can sometimes be more easily disguised, hidden, or ignored than positive symptoms. Dissociative losses may include a degree of amnesia (loss of memory), subjective detachment from reality (with intact reality testing), various forms of sensory anesthesia (e.g., loss of smell, hearing, sensation), loss of affect that results in emotional numbness or
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