feelings usually backed up by:

• Excessive or unreasonable fears
• Recurrent memories and feelings about a traumatic event
• Persistent avoidance of a feared situation, object or situation associated with a previous trauma
• Physiological reactivity associated with feared situations, objects or previous trauma
• Recurrent or persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses or images that are initially experienced as intrusive or senseless
• Repetitive, purposeful and intentional behavior designed to minimize discomfort or prevent some feared event. The behavior is excessive or not connected to the situation or feared object.