If you are still suffering the effects, yes. A tendency to cringe, still expecting the blows to rain down upon you.
It can lead to present-day stress, too, since many other people see the fear, and, not wanting to see it, can be inclined to attack.
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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