ABSTRACT
There is a sense in which those who have been traumatised have to learn to live with the memory of it, in the same way that Government advises us that we have to, learn to live with COVID. In this chapter, it is suggested that those who have been traumatised will necessarily have a background noise of thoughts and images related to their trauma/s. However, by concentrating on the main signal, the focus is shifted to today's construction. The specifics of adaptive functioning/‘tuning in’ are detailed. This case example considered a soldier who has suffered a devastating physical injury, curtailing her career. Adapting to this injury and PTSD with associated trauma-related guilt is complicated further by the living conditions to which she had to return in civvy life. She felt as if she had transitioned from one war zone to another.
