[Gallagher]

Hullo again, Aur.

-hrm- Well, I suppose I could, but I have a bad feeling like I might end up explaining things more than I'd like...

I've had post-traumatic stress disorder for about six or seven years now (so for pretty much all of my teen years). See, my first, uh, partner, boyfriend, what have you, was murdered at a New Year's party that we attended together. This time of year is... hard, to say the least. It's also been... ah... (forgive me, I tend to have trouble keeping track of the time... It all blends together quite often.) I think about two years or so-? Since I was raped... (I had a close call to that a couple years before the actual rape, too, around this time of year.)

I've been dealing with it mostly on my own, and friends of course, for a long time now, but I'm still prone to returns of my depression (I was just getting over one of those swings when I met Asami and renewed contact with Nexess) and the occasional, well, PTSD type episodes... You know, flashbacks and the like. One of those kind of hit me out of the blue today.

And uh... Yeah. That's about it, I guess.