BloomInWinter
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I know that one of the signs I'm beginning to dissociate is when my hands get cold, and often very pale. I have symptoms of what would be called 'Renaud's Phenomenon' & after reading about it, found this statement in Wikipedia very interesting for the parallels to PTSD in both the incidence rate and the onset.
...the Framingham Study finding that 5% of men and 8% of women suffer from Raynaud Phenomenon....
Raynaud's disease, or "Primary Raynaud's", is diagnosed if the symptoms are idiopathic, that is, if they occur by themselves and not in association with other diseases. Some refer to Primary Raynaud's disease as "being allergic to coldness".
It often develops in young women in their teens and early adulthood. Primary Raynaud's is thought to be at least partly hereditaryhttps://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Heredity, although specific genes have not yet been identified.