Author Matt Lewis recalls the fight for his life and encounter with death in his book Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on The Antarctic Seas. After graduating college Matt Lewis takes a job on a fishing vessel that fishes in the frigid Antarctic waters. During his on the Sudur Havid, the name of the ship, Lewis and crewmates ran into a catastrophic storm which lead to the sinking of the ship and the hardest hours of the entirety of his life. After losing his friends and crewmates the cold, unforgiving fate of the sea scarred him for life. Following Lewis’s rescue the fight may not have been completely over. When someone experiences a traumatizing event, some people may show symptoms of certain types of mental illnesses. In
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Some symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder include trouble sleeping, night terrors, and impulse reactions that can be triggered by certain noises or visuals. A staff of Toledo professors and two other professors from Ireland and Australia conducted a survey with 501 patients who have a history of severe trauma. The researchers used the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) as a guideline to their judgement of their test patients. The board of professors could provide sufficient evidence for the professors to conclude that traumatic experiences has correlation to one another (Psychological Trauma 214-217). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can arise after any extremely stressful such as divorce and trauma. When death is involved it increase the odds of developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is coping mechanism for survival to help deal with these painful experiences. Another study was carried out by two psychiatrists, E. Lindal and J. Stefansson, specifically on “The Long Term Psychological Effects of Fatal Accidents at Sea…” This survey pulled its sample population from seamen who survived fatal accidents in the brutal North-Atlantic (Lindal & Stefansson 239-246). Despite the study being conducted in the North-Atlantic, the conditions of the harsh southern Antarctic seas that Lewis and his crew members desperately struggled to survive in are almost identical. There were two groups: One group of 59 seamen who had not been involved in a fatal boating accident and one-hundred and twelve seamen who were involved in a fatal accident. The study was able to conclude that “survivors of fatal disasters experienced more long-lasting negative effects than those where lives were not lost (Lindal & Stefansson 239). Matt Lewis vividly remembers the sight of the
Some symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder include trouble sleeping, night terrors, and impulse reactions that can be triggered by certain noises or visuals. A staff of Toledo professors and two other professors from Ireland and Australia conducted a survey with 501 patients who have a history of severe trauma. The researchers used the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) as a guideline to their judgement of their test patients. The board of professors could provide sufficient evidence for the professors to conclude that traumatic experiences has correlation to one another (Psychological Trauma 214-217). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can arise after any extremely stressful such as divorce and trauma. When death is involved it increase the odds of developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is coping mechanism for survival to help deal with these painful experiences. Another study was carried out by two psychiatrists, E. Lindal and J. Stefansson, specifically on “The Long Term Psychological Effects of Fatal Accidents at Sea…” This survey pulled its sample population from seamen who survived fatal accidents in the brutal North-Atlantic (Lindal & Stefansson 239-246). Despite the study being conducted in the North-Atlantic, the conditions of the harsh southern Antarctic seas that Lewis and his crew members desperately struggled to survive in are almost identical. There were two groups: One group of 59 seamen who had not been involved in a fatal boating accident and one-hundred and twelve seamen who were involved in a fatal accident. The study was able to conclude that “survivors of fatal disasters experienced more long-lasting negative effects than those where lives were not lost (Lindal & Stefansson 239). Matt Lewis vividly remembers the sight of the