69yo male experiencing disturbed sleep, claustrophobia, intrusive images, olfactory and auditory hallucinations after a 4th of July barbecue 2 weeks prior. Reports having a difficult childhood. Broke into a home at 17 stealing food out of a fridge and was confronted by an armed owner whom he wrestled and shot dead with owners firearm. Home owner was a police officer.
Sent to Maine state penitentiary for 25 years where he was, “treated like a piece of meat”, lined up during a riot where, “they shanked the guy to the left of me” and witnessed “a cell resident across the hall burn alive when they dowsed his cell with gasoline”.
