trauma inhibiting imagination

‘there have been studies (van der Kolk & Ducey, 1989) (Womersley, 2020) that examine the effect of trauma on the imagination; how people with PTSD lose the capacity for play. Instead of being able to escape the everyday with fantasies, desires and hopes their trauma gets superimposed on the world around them, creating a landscape of fear and panic, trapping the person in the events of the past’ p170 - may be worth looking into in more depth