with post-traumatic stress disorder. If a woman had been sexually assaulted, the results were much stronger. These dynamics can also often leave the victim feeling disassociated from her own body. When I read this study I had a genuine aha! moment. It was not until I was well into my forties that I realized how, in response to learning to think of my body as a source of danger and vulnerability, I had come to feel it was not “mine.”
