Just As I Once Was

Subject: Dinky Hooves (U, age ~15)
Reporting Doctor: Dr. Hermann Rorschach, D.E.P.S
Date: 31 June XXXX

Dinky Hooves is one of the least difficult specimens I've had to analyze.
Still, it took me a long time to analyze all of her problems. The real root of the problem is buried within a proverbial thicket of other, smaller problems.
When Dinky first came in, she said she was scared. At that point I received her mother's consent to perform a polygraph test, as well as a myriad of other tests that I deemed to be necessary. I had her mother step from the room and informed Dinky that anything she told me, unless it threatened her life or the life of another, was confidential.
She agreed to tell me whatever she could. As we began the test, I asked her menial questions, taking benchmarks of her normal reactive state.
As I began to grow more personal, however, her reactions grew more and more violent, the most so when I asked about her siblings. At that point she began to close off and tried to change the subject.
She also exhibits several defense mechanisms, most prevalent among which are denial and a stubborn superiority complex. Withdrawal was also present, though not as much as the former two.
After the session was over, I concluded that Dinky exhibited signs of PTSD, though relating to what I was not sure. I asked them to return for another session, and both agreed.
During the next session, I tried to focus on the cause of Dinky's PTSD. While probing for a cause, I noticed a tendency to get very aggressive and angry when put under stress. I eventually managed to get through to her, and she confessed that she had been physically abused by her siblings in the past.
I asked her if I could inform her mother, and she hesitantly consented. I informed her mother, who was shocked by the revelation.
I have not as of yet begun to administer treatment at the time of writing this report.

HR