John Doe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder I have known this man for about four to five years and looked up to him like he was my own father, he said that he didn’t want his name to be used in this essay, therefore I will refer to him as John Doe. I met him about five years ago as he came to my school to fill the defensive coaching spot and from the first day I met him I could tell something was different with his attitude. We sat down and had a talk after class one day and he told me that he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from when they deployed him overseas to Iraq. He said he thinks that his time in Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait are what really affected him the most. He began to talk about how what percent of Americans suffer from PTSD, the effects of it on family and children, and some stories told by John Doe on his experiences while
It would upset him a lot when people would do that because he said that it was just natural in war that you always have to watch your back because you never know what could happen and usually if someone was running at you it was an enemy or one of his brothers that was in need of help. There was one day I was sitting in class and Doe decided to get up and my friend thought it was a good idea to come up behind him and and try to wrestle with him. The instant that my friend touched him, Doe flipped him on the ground and had his knee on his chest. Once he realized it was a student, he helped him up and told him that he shouldn’t ever do that to a war veteran. After all that happened he sat the whole class down and proceeded to tell us that he suffers from PTSD and that we cannot just sneak up on him like that because it would not end well for anyone and everybody was just in shock by what he was saying but we all respected it and we never tried anything with