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I was sexually assaulted, I myself have developed PTSD from that event. After it happened it was hard for me to go to sleep or even close my eyes without having flashbacks. When I did sleep I would wake up to nightmares for months, sometimes I still struggle with that. Also, I would cry for hours on end not knowing how to stop myself from that pain.Many people suffer from many different types of PTSD, not only do war survivors and sexual assault survivors struggle with it, but so do people who experience traumatic things like the crime of genocide.
Sonia Reich, a pre-adolescent Jew, was on the run. Orphaned and alone, she fought to keep herself alive while the majority of her extended family was executed in the Holocaust. After the Holocaust Sonia moved to the United States and married a Holocaust survivor. Sonia and her husband had a child named Howard. Howard grew up with the mindset that the norm is what your parents do. He thought nothing of the fact that his mother was up all night, every night sitting on the floor of their darkened living room, looking out the window, keeping a kind of vigil, and checking locks consistently to make sure no one could get in. This all changed one night in 2001, when Howard received a call from the police relaying the new that his mother Sonia had been picked up by the police after running out of her house screaming that someone was trying to kill her. Some people do not even know they have PTSD until a episode occurs that changes everything.
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Does PTSD effect those who've experienced extreme trauma? PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is an emotional response to troubling events, as it is a deregulation of body and brain chemistry.
Albert Grow's is a survivor from the Vietnam War. Shortly after the war ended Grow's developed PTSD. Grow's discovered his PTSD when he began to experience traumatic flashbacks, that he would believe is reality. He would began to see the faces of dead young men he had long succeeded in forgetting. Not only would Grow's see things, he would feel anger and rage naturally, but he would ask himself why he could never feel the good stuff? He loved his son but had a hard time saying it. He loved his wife , but would isolate. He goes on about being so exhausted of the sleepless nights and the dreams. Grow's only wants to be himself again, but not everyone gets that luxury. Grows is only 1 of 44.7 million people around the world who struggle with PTSD.
Some may think that PTSD is just a way of thinking and that it is easy to "fix", that it is not a disease. Some people think that PTSD is just made up, that its all in a persons head, but we are here to prove them wrong.
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This is important to talk about because the less informed people are about this topic the more dangerous it can be. PTSD is a very serious disease that does not have a cure as of yet, but if we keep having conversations about it we are one step closer to putting a stop to PTSD.
We believe that PTSD is
a very serious disease that
effects many people around
the world today.