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Originally Posted by JLarson
https://www.brainline.org/article/dsm-5-criteria-ptsd
Just based on your limited remarks, you probably don't meet all the criteria for PTSD; however, classical conditioning is basically a descriptor of the precursor conditions necessary to develop PTSD, and you've clearly got a few of those. Unpleasant or dangerous situation (your work environment) leading to generalized anxiety when a stimulant is present (that music) that brings back the memories of that time.
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Guess I needed a few more years to really get it. Very happy I found a different line of work. Those were dark years of multi day torture. And it's just that song that brings back the bad moments. I can talk and joke about the old stuff we did without issue. But man, that song was played every time we were running thousands of feet of socopex cable.