P. T. S. D Research Paper

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P.T.S.D is an acronym for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is classified as a panic disorder; people who experience from P.T.S.D suffer from many different emotional and physical negative symptoms. These symptoms include anger, irritability, depression, blackouts and vivid dreams and flash backs. These symptoms are due to an extremely traumatic event in a person’s life. Some of main suffers of P.T.S.D are combat veterans. Witnessing brutal combat can forever scar the mind and onset P.T.S.D. Veterans are not the only suffers of this disorder any traumatic event can cause the disorder. My mother suffers from P.T.S.D because of the events of September 11th 2001. She was working three blocks from the towers on the 65th floor of her building. When the first plane hit she saw it at almost eye level. She than exited her building along with thousands of other people trying to flee the horrific scene. When she reached the street she could only describe it as mass hysteria, people running, screaming and staring in disbelief at the horrific scene. My mom says “No one was sure what was going on if it was an accident, an attack but when the second plan hit everyone knew it was some kind of attack. It seemed like every police car, ambulance and fire truck in the city was out with their sirens blaring. When the towers collapsed is when things went from disbelief to…show more content…
for months afterwards when she heard a siren she would become very anxious and upset. I couldn’t even play one of my favorite video game Grand Theft Auto 3 because of the sirens in it; it made her extremely nervous and uncomfortable. She complained of terrible and vivid nightmares of the events of that day. It affected her so badly she did not return to work for six months after the 9/11. Even to this day she becomes distressed very easily; when before September 11th she was always able to stay composed. My mother still nine years later still has

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