I think the compelling question is to understand what the difference is between the two, if in fact "reason" is any sort of referent at all, which I believe it is. The difference largely lies in the intention to differentiate, compare, and assess versus the intention to act out, react, and transmit rhetorical evaluations based on those reactions. Obviously, there are an infinite number of degrees between the extremes of maximum reason and maximum reactionary dramatization.

ANother interesting question is how the reactionary mechanisms get set up in the first place. Two people can go through the same trauma and one will rise above it and leave it behind while the other drags it forward in time and lets it discolor all his perceptions from that time forward. If we knew what that process was, exactly, some sort of healing process would become more likely. At present, PTSD is often treated with Valium or comparable psychoactive chemicals and the causes are never addressed.

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