The trauma is old but your nervous system never got clearance to stand down. You have learned to function with it but it never fully leaves the room. This one is for the long-term haunted, the people whose brains have been stuck in "after" for years. The hat will not erase flashbacks, but it does mark you as someone who has survived a thousand nights already. It is a soft crown for people who know that healing is a marathon with terrible lighting.

Chronic PTSD is used when post traumatic stress symptoms have persisted for a long period, typically months or years. The pattern includes ongoing intrusive memories avoidance of reminders emotional numbing and heightened alertness that continue well after the original danger is gone. Chronic PTSD describes symptoms that persist for months or years after the original trauma. The code does not show the anniversaries your body remembers even when your calendar does not. This hat functions as a kind of counter narrative, proof that long term trauma also comes with long term survival.