“Many effective strategies that treat anxiety and depression don’t work for trauma survivors. Meditation and mindfulness techniques that make one more aware of their environment sometimes can produce an opposite effect on a trauma survivor. Trauma survivors often don’t need more awareness. They need to feel safe and secure in spite of what their awareness is telling them.”
“For those who have experienced trauma, anxiety comes from an automatic physiological response to what has actually, already happened. The brain and body have already lived through “worst case scenario” situations, know what it feels like and are hell-bent on never going back there again. The fight/flight/ freeze response goes into overdrive. It’s like living with a fire alarm that goes off at random intervals 24 hours a day. It is extremely difficult for the rational brain to be convinced “that won’t happen,” because it already knows that it has happened, and it was horrific.”
So in light of the whole Vincent thing, I have a revised my little OverlandsAU (Borderlands/Overwatch with Axton being Soldier’s kid)
Ashton Morrison still being born to a drunken one night mistake and being left for Jack (probably in his mid 30s) to take care of as soon as he came into existence. Jack, being a stressed out single dad with many regrets at this point, ran into Vincent while out and about and struggling with a wandering toddler. Vincent offered some advice, as he actually is fond of kids, and works with them as a pediatrician.
From there on it became a pretty good relationship (never actually having offically married), up until things started getting shakey with Overwatch. Midway through the Blackwatch ordeal; Axton, now about 16, enlisted into Dahl at Jack’s permission (much to Vincent’s dismay). After Axton left, Jack became more and more wrapped up into Overwatch, with nothing really keeping ties between him and Vincent. Eventually Vincent called it off, wanting to move on while he still had time to really settle down.
?? At least thoughts for now I guess. I know Blizzard is probably pulling a J.K.Rowling and isnt going to expand on Vincent like with Emily but hey I’m keeping my AU lmao
thanks so much <:) i really appreciate it. sorry this took awhile to answer i wnated to draw a pic for it. hope you like it & thanks again for sending this
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