Reliving the event (also called re-experiencing symptoms). You may have bad memories or nightmares. You even may feel like you're going through the event again. This is called a flashback. Avoiding situations that remind you of the event. You may try to avoid situations or people that trigger memories of the traumatic event.
He did not have NF. Roy Lee Rocky Dennis. Birth: Dec. 4, 1961. Death: Oct. 4, 1978. He was born with the rare disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, which causes calcium to accumulate on the skull and makes the head grow to twice its normal size.
The Drama Behind Mask. She was a strong-willed, flamboyant divorcee with a taste for drugs and bikers. He was her son, a disfigured boy who spent 16 years under a death sentence. Rocky Dennis was born with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, which distorted his face, making it grow to twice its normal size. Mask, the powerful Peter Bogdanovich film, tells their story.