PTSD (blog3)

   
     Reading the Perfect Day for Bananafish got me very intrigued in PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In the story it was very surprising when Seymour killed himself because to the audience it seemed as if this was a random act. With further investigation, we as the audience were able to tell he was suffering from PTSD. People that suffer from this terrible trauma have a hard time coping with society. About 5.2 million adults have PTSD and majority of that number comes from veterans of war. PTSD is not easy to cure and in most cases it can only be treated, not fully cured.The most effective treatment is therapy and then comes medication like anti-depressants. Living everyday with PTSD is a challenging thing to do.It harms individuals not only mentally but physically as well, which can be seen in the diagram below.



effects of PTSD