PTSD Essay

Hosseini shows the terrifying effects of war on the children of Afghanistan in his book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Afghan children suffer in their volatile home country, whether from loss of family, loss of limb, or loss of mental stability through PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Hosseini explores this concept in many ways, such as his characters Laila, Tariq, and Aziza, as well as the orphanage Aziza was kept at after the destruction of Rasheed’s store. But in order to truly understand…

PTSD SPIRITUALITY Dr. John Zemler acquired his PTSD some 25 years ago while serving in the US Army. He subsequently earned a doctorate in Theology after he left the Army. He now combines his experience in Theology, surviving 25 years of his own PTSD, and his work as a University Professor and Spiritual Director, to encourage trauma survivors to not give up hope. Additionally, he helps trauma survivors and their loved ones to understand how PTSD affects the soul and can induce alienating…

losing his family and all of his sanity. And not being able to understand what he put his family through, and how his PTSD affected them in a negative way as well. But as Adah puts it, he got what he deserved by saying “He got The Verse”(487). In the Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver uses Nathan to show how traumatic life events can change someone's life forever. By showing how Nathan’s PTSD causes him to become irrational and sending his family to Africa. And how the ravages of war can broke…

The Reason Behind Holden’s Behavior Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a disorder caused by people experiencing an unusual and frightening event that overwhelms their ability to cope with the stress. The book, Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger is about a seventeen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield, who wants to preserve the innocence of children. He has seen the adult world and resents to enter it, ever since he dropped out of his high school. Holden wants to resist change because he fears…

suffer from PTSD and recurrent nightmare are more aware of their dreams, yet have low control over the content of the dreams. This is a symptom of PTSD as victims often feel trapped while reliving the traumatic event. However, there are some variables that make the experiment questionable. For example, in total there were only 26 participants in the study. While there were originally 33, this is not a large enough sample size that can make conclusions about the entire population of PTSD…

response (Pagel et al., 2014; Krakow & Zadra, 2006). Yet, as we saw earlier, approximately 72% of persons with PTSD experience nightmares thus researchers began to examine the possibility of IRT for persons with trauma-related nightmares. In a randomized control study, Krakow et al. (2001) examined the effectiveness of IRT against a wait-list control group for 168 women with chronic nightmares and PTSD resulting from sexual assault. Of the 168 women studied, the majority of the participants…

It starts out with minor forms of anxiety and switches to major forms of anxiety as the person constantly discusses topics related to any traumatic event that they have experienced. Such as in Komunyakaa’s place, he got to the point of PTSD where he was suffering with deciphering what was real and what was fake. He says, “In the black mirror a woman is trying to erase names: No, she’s brushing a young boy’s hair.” Here, he struggles with anxiety as he thinks the woman is wiping away the…

On average, 17.22 people of of every 100,000 that suffers from PTSD commits suicide. This may not seem like many people but given that the U.S has roughly 350 million citizens, and that if all had PTSD, that’d be ~20,325,203 people committing suicide. Clearly, something just isn’t right in the treatment of PTSD patients. As stated in Bile, Thank You for Being Expandable, and PTSD Related Military Suicides, the current treatment- whether it be prescribed or self treatment- is highly inadequate…

After reading materials and videos related to TBI and PTSD, I got a lot of information. I knew already about PTSD but I didn’t know well about TBI which is impacts on Veterans and service member. According to Psychiatric Services “Traumatic brain injury (TBI), affecting an estimated 22% of service members wounded in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, is often complicated by comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and other mental health problems having a dramatic…

abandonment, and even war, a psychiatric disorder known as PTSD may form, leaving people in distress, isolation, and in numerous other states. It’s a tough mountain to climb, and many people have difficulties dealing with it. In the book, The Things They Carried—a novel by Tim O’Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War—several of the main characters undergo similar situations in the war and have to deal with PTSD themselves. No one wins in war, no one comes out the same;…