But she’s got a warrior’s skills: hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning for danger, for triggers.
- This is a categorical claim.
- It is listing the symptoms that come along with PTSD.
- The symptoms itself belong to category themselves.
Brannan Vines has never been to war.
- This is a definition claim
- It is defining that Brannan has never been to war.
He’s one of 103,200, or 228,875, or 336,000 Americans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and came back with PTSD
- This is a factual claim.
- It is stating the number of veterans who come back with PTSD.
- The numbers are not able to be disputed.
Hypervigilance sounds innocuous, but it is in fact exhaustingly distressing, a conditioned response to life-threatening situations.
- This is a causal claim.
- The claim is able to be seen as a cause and effect.
- Hypervigilance would be the effect and a life-threating situation would be the cause.
Caleb has been home since 2006, way more than enough time for Brannan to catch his symptoms.
- This is a causal claim.
- In a way, it can be read as having a cause and effect.
- Caleb being home for a while has allowed for his wife to have similar symptoms which would be the effect.
Counterintuitive 