Randy Kessler

I think it was a gut feeling.

I treat women who are stalking victims and often they fall into a depression.

They're in a dysphoric state.

And they become preoccupied with the offender.

They think about them all the time.

They look out their car windows.

They're sitting in a restaurant with a new partner, and they see, like, say, Nicole Brown.

They see a car drive by, like a white Tahoe, and they think, oh, my God, is that my ex-husband?

So they live in fear.

Nancy, it gets into their brains.

I bet it was in her brain, in her thought process, that she was at risk.

It was always there, and that's why she was talking about it.

It'll come back in so many forms, Nancy.

It could come back, as I've said before, at a pre-conscious, pre-verbal level, meaning they have the sensation of seeing a traumatic scene, but they can't really put it into words.

They could be walking down the street someday and see somebody walk in front of a car and

have a flashback and think, oh my God, that car's going to hit that person.

They could become people who refuse to form attachments because this premature loss of the parent makes them too terrified of abandonment.

It's going to affect them on all levels.

Nancy, it could predispose them to personality disorders, to drug abuse, to alcoholism.

This will have a traumatic, traumatic effect.