When a soldier is suffering from PTSD he may experience rage, depression, flashbacks, emotional numbness, and hyper vigilance. They can experience the inability to stop believing that they are in battle during everyday life. Effects like these can seriously jeopardize their family life. As one former soldier has said in the article, “It’s almost like your family has its own form of PTSD just from being around you every
It also tends to run in some families. Personal experiences and environmental factors such as childhood trauma, parental neglect, abuse or death may play a role. This is worsened when one has difficulty coping with stress and
“PTSD follows a traumatic event or series of events in which a person is physically harmed or threatened with violence, such as sexual assault, warfare, and accidents” ("Introduction to Mental Illness). Soldiers are seeing there friends who have become their family dying in front of them. They are physically harmed and threatened with violence; bodies are being blown up in front of them, the daily feeling of helplessness and fearing for their lives. Individuals with PTSD become detached from family and friends; they become easily frightened or provoked, and are often prone to aggression. Soldiers tend to avoid environments that remind them of the event, have nightmares and flashbacks of the experience, which can be triggered by everyday sights and sounds.
‘we grabbed a drink – soon everything would taste different.’ ‘we grabbed a drink’ shows how desperate they are because they didn’t just get a drink they ‘grabbed’ a drink. ‘Soon everything would taste different.’ This shows how unpatriotic the family is because they think that everything would be better in a different country including the taste of things. ‘It is you last check-in point in this country’ this shows that the family are escaping the conflict because they can’t deal with the conflict. ‘This country’ could show that people are that disgraced with their countries conflict and attitude towards war they don’t even have a name that could describe it. Regret is a main feeling in ‘Bayonet Charge’.
It was then that Paul realized the true agonies of war—surviving the agony of war forces one to learn to disconnect oneself from emotions like grief, sympathy, and fear. All of these conditions combined greatly affected the mental and physical health of the soldiers in World War
Some of these include death of others around them Vietnamese men, women, and children. Also they saw many of the people in their platoon get killed or die. Men tried to close themselves off from what was going on “they carried shameful memories” (482). “Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, not dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor.
For example Lieutenant Cross was always thinking about Martha the women he loved back in the United States. This thought of her made Lieutenant Cross forget that he was in a war zone and before he knew it Ted Lavender died because of his emotional thought about her. Lieutenant Cross and Tim O’Brien share the same feeling of guilt. Lieutenant Cross feels bad after but one can see how these thoughts hit oneself hard and just like Tim O’Brien this sticks with him a long time because he believes if was focused and not going into his own world he could of saved one of his fellow
It may be because there is a stigma about going to get help being associated weakness or maybe soldiers feel like talking about their time during deployment brings up the memories of what they’ve done, seen, or experienced. This is a real social problem that has affected and is affecting most I would go as far as to say all soldiers go through, as well as self medication either through the use a magnanimous amount of alcohol or the use of both alcohol and un-prescribed medication. Soldiers in Mike platoon soon come forward with the truth of the circumstances surrounding Mike death. It seemed that Mike was distraught about what happened while he was driving his humvee in Iraq; Mike was told to never stop driving while on a transport. Regrettably during one of the drives a child strayed into the road and Mike was pressured into continuing to drive.
He was summoned by a nurse to hear the dying confessions of an SS Nazi soldier. The soldier wanted forgiveness on behalf of all Jewish people for the things he had done to their fellow brothers. He asked for forgiveness as he was dying because he was afraid that his soul would not be able to rest eternally unless he was forgiven. Simon tries continuously to leave the room in fear of his own life, and also because of his learned hatred of Nazis. He stays and listens to the dying man out of pity and also because the soldier asks and begs him not to leave.
It is common for those suffering from BPD and their families to feel confused by a lack of clear diagnosis, effective treatments and accurate information. It is true that the disorder originates in the families of those who suffer from it, and is closely related to traumatic events during childhood and to PTSD. SIGNS AND SYMTOMS Studies suggest that individuals with BPD tend to experience frequent, strong and Long-lasting states of aversive tension, often triggered by perceived rejection, being alone or perceived