[She gets up, walking over to the closet, and pulls a duplicate recorder out.]

What to do to deal with trauma? [She shrugs.] Trial and error, mostly. I've also taken a few psych classes. They focused more on recognizing the signs than strategies for dealing with them, but that's the first step. I like knowing what's going on in my head.

[Pin it down into chemical imbalances and numbers until she can detach herself. That's her other coping method. Her feelings are just a bunch of chemicals. That means she can deal with them, right?

Maybe someday it'll work.]