Hmm... Ya, chapters 8-10 are my least favorite part of this series. Like, OK, another protagonist went yet again into another they're going to kill you trap without any security. But then politics / leaving a job / getting fired are huge panic inducing traumas? Characters who have been in corporate environments for decades massively overreacting... I'm just not buying the plot.
The previous trauma? 100% legit, I understand that emotionally would hit like a truck. But I'm struggling to empathize with what might be unresolved PTSD because I don't have any outside perspective to tell me if just this character, or the author, is off the rails...