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According to The Nebraska Department of Veteran’s Affair, estimated 7.8 percent of Americans had experienced PTSD, also known Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is considered a psychiatric disorder and a mental health issue in the United States. They often develop depression, substance abuse, and anxiety. People that were diagnosed with PTSD had a serious accident, physical or sexual assaulted or a military combat. There three different symptoms, first symptoms is when you’re thinking about…

David Ackerman an academy graduate detective, who is carrying around a lot stress or emotional baggage, because he is the reason for his brother’s death and his father does not approve of his career choice, so they share a distance relationship. Ackerman is haunted by memories of his brother falling from a roof, and dying after he encouraged him to jump. David is a rookie detective who will be partnered up with a veteran police detective to bring down an infamous German car thief. The reason for…

Folkes (2002) expressed that “TFT is both rapid and non-invasive, requiring clients to disclose to the facilitator only as much of their ‘story’ as they feel comfortable or able to tell” (p. 99). Due to varying cultural norms and the nature of trauma, TFT is an appropriate choice for treatment and for any client who has difficulty telling their trauma story, such is the case of many Rwandan women. The study by Folkes “suggests that TFT significantly reduced the overwhelming emotions resulting…

Closure in Lycidas What is the right response to death? How and to what extent should we mourn the ones we love? When John Milton's college friend, Edward King, drowned off of the Welsh coast 1, Milton wrote Lycidas in memoriam. A pastoral elegy, the poem represents King as the lost shepherd Lycidas and uses agricultural imagery to portray loss. The majority of the poem is spent highlighting the irrevocability and completeness of death, that is until lines 165-168: "Weep no more, woeful…

This year we watched the film Atonement by Joe Wright. In the film, the characters experience a type of trauma and we then see how it affected them. This led me to think how does childhood trauma affect people as adults? Through this inquiry I developed three key questions, what is the age or ages that a child is most affected? What are the causes of trauma? And, what are the long-term effects of trauma? My hypothesis is that through my research I will find that childhood trauma has both subtle…

Dreams can often have a strange way of altering our mind’s perception of what is real and what is illusory. A person can awake from a horrific nightmare about the loss of a loved one and immediately feel intense panic or sorrow. Minutes later, once the person recognizes that the tragic events did not actually occur, reality sinks in and relief replaces fear. In a way, this common human experience can be inversely used to explain what mentally ill patient, Andrew Laeddis, experiences in the novel…

The act of holding wild animals in captivity, specifically for the purpose of entertainment has led many people to associate their abnormal behaviors to psychological suffering. Local zoos and aquariums seem to draw most of the attention from the general public about captive wild animal rights and welfare; however, many forget that traveling circuses are just as much at fault. Coming into one’s hometown once or twice a year, the traditional circus puts on a ‘spectacular show’ using wild animals…

(AGG) About 7.8 percent of all Americans are affected by PTSD at some point in their life. (BS-1) PTSD is a disorder that is caused by tragedies and causes people to change who they are. (BS-2) Tragedies can occur in many ways, the most common that can cause post-traumatic stress disorder is family loss which is how the characters in the novel developed the disorder. (BS-3) Symptoms of the disorder are used in the book to affect Najmah and Nusrat to make them undergo character change. (TS)…

Say the words soldier or veteran, and countless images come to mind. Children and teens imagine a hero, one who saves lives, and happily returns home as a knight in shining armor. Adults too, carry these images in their minds often forgetting that there is much more to a soldier's return to civilian life than this simplified, idealistic version that exists in our heads. Veterans go through more trauma than most people could ever imagine, they go into war without realizing that the faces of…

Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, is a teenage boy going through severe struggles. Throughout the novel: the Catcher in the Rye, Holden goes through a variety of depression due to his past experiences. These experiences are affecting the conflicts he has with his depression, and it is mainly from one mental illness. Certain symptoms from Holden Caulfield imply that he is diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD, the abbreviation for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is an anxiety…