Another friend says Dr Blasey Ford has long feared "spaces without escape routes"

[fleur-de-lisa]

MJ Lee ✔ @mj_lee

Kate DeVarney, a longtime friend of Christine Blasey Ford’s, is the second person to tell me Blasey Ford struggled to be in spaces without escape routes. Blasey Ford doesn’t like to fly, DeVarney said, bc an airplane is “the ultimate closed space where you cannot get away.”

DeVarney, who first spoke to the NYTimes, now tells CNN that Blasey Ford told in August that when she and her husband were remodeling their home, “she insisted that every room had to have an exit door to the outside.”

She says Blasey Ford first confided in her in August about having been sexually assaulted in high school, without naming Kavanaugh. “She did say this has affected me my entire life.”

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[JonLP24]

1. PTSD

[madaboutharry]

2. Trauma causes phobias.

She can testify to the extent that the trauma of this assault damaged her life.

[meadowlark5]

3. I know all of her friends are trying to help by showing how badly this affected her

But if they do too much, the republicans will seize on this as she has mental issues. Even if it was caused by the assault, they will begin to frame it as she might just be disturbed and so not credible. They're vile. We all know there is no depth too low to go.

[renate]

10. They can't really do that without insulting veterans and anybody else with PTSD

Which wouldn’t stop them, I guess. But it might backfire.

[PearliePoo2]

4. I'm crying for this woman right now.

The fucking republicans have trashed her life. I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns.

[Initech]

7. Calling them "monsters" is an understatement.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Now I fully understand

a Co-worker who was abused as a Teen. Often guessed she was a victim of some type of physical abuse by her dis trust of fellow Male Workers. She always wanted the Cubical closest to the Exit door.

Than you for your post.

[Glimmer of Hope]

8. This is so sad.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Oh yea. Similar to my most persistent PTSD

Mine is sitting with my back to the door/open space. Same nagging concern aout being physically vulnerable.