PTSD is something that can’t be cured or controlled but it can only be overcame posttraumatic stress disorder is define as the psychological condition triggered by a traumatic event , for examples, rape, war and terriost attacks or a violent death , even a natural disaster, really anything that can inflict a part of someone life. About 7-8% of the population will have PTSD at some point in their lives. About 5.2 million adults have PTSD during a given year. This is only a small portion of those who have gone through a trauma. Women are more likely than men to develop PTSD. About 10% of women develop PTSD sometime in their lives compared with 5% of men. (Mary McNulty and Fran Hodgkin’s.) Symptoms of PTSD can affect a person’s mood, behavior,
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Victims of human-caused trauma have a higher incidence of PTSD than those of natural disasters. Among rape and Holocaust survivors, the rate of PTSD is 50%. (Laurie Fundukian medical center) Growing up I never knew my Grandpa had PTSD, the first time I had found this out was when I was 8.during the summer I was about to start playing a video game that has a lot of violent an explosions in it, but, my grandpa came over to visit, my grandpa was a tall slim scruffy looking man with a big white beard, but even he looked like a tough guy he was acutely. So I decide to spend some time with him instead , mostly because my mom asked me too. So I asked what my grandpa like too an he said “let’s go mental detecting I’m really good at it”, so we went outside on the hot summer say an went to look for whatever was buried deep in the ground, at first we kept on finding bottle caps an tin cans but then occasional found dimes, quarters an nickels, an really we found some gold or silver necklace or rings. But after a couple of hours of being in the heat of the sun my grandpa said “let’s go inside and get some lemonade”, so we did.
When we got inside I really wanted to play the video game so I told grandpa too “meet me in my room with the lemonade gramps!” So I went into my room an started up the Xbox an started up the game …show more content…
Like Rachel hope who mother was left alone with her mother male friend while she sent on vacation. My mom was 19 when she had me, and she was very ill-equipped," Hope said. But the worst arrived when Hope was 4 years old and her mother went on vacation, leaving her with a male friend who'd agreed to babysit. As it turned out, says Hope, he was a pedophile who raped her repeatedly over the six-week stretch that her mother was gone. When they finally reunited, her mother noticed a change. "She told me, 'I just wondered why you were kind of withdrawn and weren't the happy child you used to be,' " Hope said. But the angry, bewildered child didn't tell her mother what had happened, and no one put the pieces together. (One woman's story) After all these years Rachel finally had spoken about the tragic event she went through as a child, still even though it has been decades later she is still affected by what had happen to
Victims of human-caused trauma have a higher incidence of PTSD than those of natural disasters. Among rape and Holocaust survivors, the rate of PTSD is 50%. (Laurie Fundukian medical center) Growing up I never knew my Grandpa had PTSD, the first time I had found this out was when I was 8.during the summer I was about to start playing a video game that has a lot of violent an explosions in it, but, my grandpa came over to visit, my grandpa was a tall slim scruffy looking man with a big white beard, but even he looked like a tough guy he was acutely. So I decide to spend some time with him instead , mostly because my mom asked me too. So I asked what my grandpa like too an he said “let’s go mental detecting I’m really good at it”, so we went outside on the hot summer say an went to look for whatever was buried deep in the ground, at first we kept on finding bottle caps an tin cans but then occasional found dimes, quarters an nickels, an really we found some gold or silver necklace or rings. But after a couple of hours of being in the heat of the sun my grandpa said “let’s go inside and get some lemonade”, so we did.
When we got inside I really wanted to play the video game so I told grandpa too “meet me in my room with the lemonade gramps!” So I went into my room an started up the Xbox an started up the game …show more content…
Like Rachel hope who mother was left alone with her mother male friend while she sent on vacation. My mom was 19 when she had me, and she was very ill-equipped," Hope said. But the worst arrived when Hope was 4 years old and her mother went on vacation, leaving her with a male friend who'd agreed to babysit. As it turned out, says Hope, he was a pedophile who raped her repeatedly over the six-week stretch that her mother was gone. When they finally reunited, her mother noticed a change. "She told me, 'I just wondered why you were kind of withdrawn and weren't the happy child you used to be,' " Hope said. But the angry, bewildered child didn't tell her mother what had happened, and no one put the pieces together. (One woman's story) After all these years Rachel finally had spoken about the tragic event she went through as a child, still even though it has been decades later she is still affected by what had happen to