Oftentimes, clients arrive at my office in their mid-thirties feeling that something is missing, that they have a sort of inner wound that isn't really healing. Traumatic memories are often getting re-stimulated when clients again attempt to enter intimate relationships - where the very attempt at deep connection brings up old unresolved pain around intimate/family relationships.This is what PTSD is: pain from a previous trauma is emerging days, months or even years after the fact in a post traumatic stress reaction.