Ship Trauma Analysis

When the boy lost his mother he felt alone in the village that saw him as just a child with an overactive imagination. The village didn’t make the effort to ever help the now orphaned boy, so he used his grief to justify the ship being a real construct and not just a figment of his imagination. The mystery of the ship that comes to his village every March is what kept the boy entertained. The realization that is never docked drew the boy to the conclusion that maybe the ship was lost. The mystery of this elusive ship made the boy question what type of ship it was. But the ship couldn’t have been real because the ship was not a solid construct and came from the boy’s mind due to the traumatization of losing his late mother so suddenly.
Many factors support this theory, such as the villagers didn’t obviously believe him when he told them about the ship and chucked it up to the overactive imagination of a child. When the boy’s mother was alive she never even saw the ship. The fact that no one else saw such a ship only supports the notion that the ship couldn't have been real, to begin with. Trauma has a different impact on everyone, but in different ways, but in this instance it caused the boy to create a ship that gives him a mystery to …show more content…
In a case study, I found I learned that Results demonstrate wide individual variations in specific symptoms and in their intensity and duration. Long after the immediate grief period, most bereaved Ss continued to feel upset, empty, or tearful; many experienced anniversary reactions and/or physical symptoms; and some had persistent identification phenomena. Although the acute dysphoria peaked between 1 and 2 yrs., several grief-related feelings, symptoms, and behaviors continued indefinitely. These symptoms can relate to the what the boy is going thru nd how he is managing his life without a