• grus@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      maybe he was water-boarded by orcs?

      Very likely that’s not the case. This is a common occurrence in people with PTSD, where due to the abnormal levels of stress hormones which the body normally produces in extremely stressful situations in order to trigger a “fight or flight” response.
      That’s why you have a lot of people with PTSD wake up with this sort of panic reactions, or similarly react to other stimuli (fireworks, thunder, etc)