"Birds retain strong memories of places where they have been threatened or alarmed. Margaret nice noted that a tame Song Sparrow was deeply agitated when taken into a room where he had been shown a stuffed Barred Owl more than four months earlier. The same sparrow was even moderately alarmed when exposed to the outline of a model of an owl that had frightened him thirteen months earlier and that he had not seen in the interval."
Alexander F. Skutch
The Mind of Birds
Team A & M University Press 1996
p. 18
We've been reading about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families).
Hmmm. I think this applies. I used to think PTSD was all about service men and women; and if anyone has permission to that experience, they do. But I feel anxiety rise without warning in certain situations--and have realized, recently, the feeling is at least a cousin to PTSD.
EverGrowing With An EverPresent and EverLoving God,
Lonnie
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