Ballistic trauma

Whether in ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, or modern day America, all warriors no matter the time or culture each face the same obstacle; transitioning from the exciting unexpected world of war to civilian life. There are three different stages which each soldier faces when reintegrating back into ordinary life; the impact phase, the immediate post-disaster phase, and finally, the recovery phase. Within The Odyssey, an epic poem written by Homer, is the tale of a war hero named Odysseus and his…

The Hunger Games: Katniss Everdeen For anyone who has seen the movies or read “The Hunger Games,” we all know the characters themselves are anything but living in a normal world. The storyline features a future dystopian world, in which these characters endure a brutal lifestyle that is only further complicated by a so called hunger games. The hunger games were an invention of the capitol in punishment for an uprising of the original thirteen districts, sixty-four years prior. These games were…

with the reality of the event. However, as mentioned above, sometimes the memory is not fully encoded and in this way large chunks of it may be missing causing problems retrieving it later in life. Some psychologists believe that some instances of trauma may be too difficult for the mind to even perceive and as such the brain choses to not fully encode them or to forget them altogether. Regardless of the school of thought that is adopted understanding of the workings of memory is still a mystery…

Psychological Disorders in Finding Nemo Many times movies have hidden things inside them. Disney does an excellent job with being able to reach all ages. Finding Nemo is a perfect example of being able to reach all ages of viewers. I first watched Finding Nemo when I was six years old. As a first grader I just thought Finding Nemo was a funny movie about a not so funny clown fish trying to find his son. Little did I know there were psychological disorders in the movie as well. The movie starts…

This research paper focuses on intergenerational bullying. Intergenerational bullying is how bullying is affected among different generations. Many readers might think that bullying has nothing to do with family, but in reality bullying has a lot to do with family. This paper specifically focuses more on how bullying occurs within a family, and how that bullying behavior is passed down to the children. Questions that will be addressed in the research paper will be how does a family’s history…

The process of healing seems easy in the Bible. Just trust in the Lord and your sorrows will be forgotten. However, it does not feel as easy when people are actually faced with the problem of crisis. Healing from one takes great deal of time and energy and not everyone can do it as well. When proper support from family or friends is present it can be much easier to heal, but the process heavily depends on the person itself. Certain people never recover or do not want to recover. Often people…

Trauma is a world-wide known phenomenon that people have to live with all their lives. While trauma is mostly seen in the lives of victims of domestic violence or war veterans, it can take any shape and any level of intensity. In Virginia Woolf’s piece, Mrs. Dalloway and Wilfred Owen’s, “Dulce et Decorum Est” trauma is a consistent notion that is prominent in the characters’ lives. In Woolf’s piece, Septimus Smith is a World War I veteran who suffers from obvious trauma in the form of…

Therapy Trauma can happen to a variety of people; old and young, rich and poor, male and female; through the use of physical, verbal or sexual abuse, even while stationed in the military. One study focused on Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and compared its effectiveness to Present-Centered Therapy (PCT). Those who participated were diagnosed with PTSD related to military sexual trauma (both men and women) within three months before the study have more than one clear memory of the trauma,…

The horror of Jazz having to watch his dad kill people affected his character even though the trauma wasn’t directed at him he still at times has thought that disturb him due to the trauma he was forced to watch. He is a strong person mentally and had a lot of control over his own life. Billy still had an impact on his life even though he had been locked up four years, but this helped Jazz…

Wars are often glamorized and glorified by governments and state officials, when in reality wars are psychologically destructive and life changing events. These tactics that were used to reel in naïve men, failed to expose them with the realities of what was to become of them after the war. The short stories “Soldier’s Home” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” offer an insight to how life really is after war veterans return back home. These stories not only realistically depict how detrimental…