Essays on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The traumatic event for the primary survivor, Joy Newsome, was abduction and being forced into captivity for seven years, where she lived in one small ten by ten shed. The trauma, was prolonged, multiple, and repeated where she was confined and left to her own…

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is the response an individual has following the events of an extremely traumatic experience that caused life threatening harm to themselves or someone they are close to. Over the past 40 years, the study of PTSD has progressed and found…

Andy, a previous fire officer, was attending to a house that had caught fire and it was his duty to remove the remains of the three people who had passed away there. A couple of days later he had become ‘distressed, started crying and feeling…