OneLostGrl
I'm going against the grain- I'm going sane
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This is exactly what Raynaud's looks like. I am not convinced she was having a panic attack and I did not ever see her hyperventilating. She was having pain from Raynaud's symptoms and this is why she constantly rubs her hands together. The white fingers with purple on the ends is just how my son and my father's hands look when they are having trouble with Raynaud's and it can be very painful. JMO and I am not saying I have sympathy for her as a previous poster mentioned that they thought some posters were, just stating my opinion of the reason for her hand pain and hand rubbing behavior.
Wow, I have never heard of Raynaud's... Sounds painful- sorry your dad and son have to deal with that
I always just felt all her fidgeting, pulling and yanking was a self soothing tool and a way for her to dissociate from the reality she is faced with at the moment (I don't believe she is a psychopath, I believe she does feel and this is her way of not having to feel her emotions.) I'm a (recovering) self injurer and 2 of the things I still find myself doing is I pick my skin (mostly my head, i dunno why) and scrape my fingernails over top of my thumbs as a way to sooth myself and "go somewhere else" in my head. I can sit for long periods doing nothing but picking at my skin. LOL, strange I know, but it gets me where I need to be (outside of my own head) for that time frame. Casey seems, to me, to be doing something similar because she does it in times of extreme stress or when she appears to be put on the spot.
I'm going to look up Raynaud's because it very well could be she has something like that!