I was assigned section 14 

Meanwhile people like James Peterson, husband of Kateri of the Olive Garden breakdown, are signing up for experiments. James was so anxious and so suicidal that he couldn’t even muster the self-preservation to get into inpatient treatment. With three kids, eight, five, and two, and Kateri’s full-time job—as a VA nurse, actually—she could no longer manage his emotional plus physical problems: rheumatism consults, neuro consults for TBI, plus a burning rash on both feet he got in Fallujah in 2004. Chemical exposure, stress reaction, no one knows, but the skin cracks and opens up raw with lesions sometimes. Finally they enrolled him in a private clinical trial to get a needleful of anesthetic injected into a bundle of nerves at the top of his collarbone. Kateri writes me that just moments after the injection, he “went from balls-to-the-wall PTSD to BOOM chill.”

This entire section is based on an illustrative claim. This can be seen with the description of James’s sucide and family troubles in order to justify his willingness to go through with experimental treatment. Then it wanders off into a somewhat factual claim as there is clear evidence that the treatment whether placebo effects are behind the sudden change or not the treatment helped in some way or another. 

That’s when her symptoms got worse, precipitating another meltdown, this time at a steak house where she took him to celebrate his newfound calm. They’d “assumed the normal positions,” she with her back to the restaurant, he facing it so he could monitor everyone, and suddenly, a server dropped a tray out of her periphery, setting her circulatory system off at a million miles a minute. “He just ate his steak like nothing,” she says.

This is another example of a factual claim and an example of causal claim. Due to the experimental treatment the man’s temperament is much better to the point he can enjoy a steak dinner whilst worrying about noise sounds. This though alienates his wife from him. 

“When you’ve become hypervigilant, the place you are most functional is on the battlefield,” McGill’s Brunet explains. Caleb, despite his injuries and his admission that war was pretty excruciatingly awful, told me he wishes he could go back. Kateri, despite wishing her system hadn’t learned to run at a heightened state, at this point is like a drug addict, needing stimulation to maintain it. For the first time since Iraq, her husband felt at peace, and was able to enjoy a steak dinner with his wife. “He just sat there,” Kateri says.

His normalcy “was so distressing to me that I wanted to stab him.”

The last sentence of this whole section exhibits an example of a cause and effect claim. His disconcerted nature activated his wife to the point she wanted to stab him. It’s casual, despite the content being talked about. It’s a statement that would be typically made about something inconsequential, not anything serious. This person is just stating something about her husband that she found odd. This entire section consists of these types of jarring casualness with the information displayed. I mean it has to be, it’s normal for them to go through these types of events, and the disruption of that new normalcy is distressing in itself. It’s so factual and almost calculated because their discussing their normal life their normal life just so happens to be extremely calculated.