
                        Trauma Reenactment Syndrome
                                      
   As described in Women Who Hurt Themselves, TRS sufferers have four
   common characteristics:
   
    1. a sense of being at war with their bodies ("my body, my enemy")
    2. excessive secrecy as a guiding principle of life
    3. inability to self-protect (often seen in a specific kind of
       fragmentation of self, and
    4. relationships dominated by a struggle for control.
       
      (criteria taken from Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and
      Understanding, c1994 by Dusty Miller, published by Basic Books.)
      
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