PTSD In Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

War affects people in many ways. The war affects people not only physical but also mentally. Stress has a very big effect on people whose in the war. Not just any kind of stress but post traumatic stress disorder is a very common type. PTSD became diagnosis with influence from social movement including veteran, feminist and holocaust survivors .Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing a terrifying event. People who has PTSD experienced many life changing things not just because the things that happened to them but the things they watch happen to others. While in the war there are many things that happens that will stick with people forever like deaths and life threatening injuries. People who have PTSD have many symptoms including flashbacks, social isolation,
Mary Anne is not the same person she was when we first met her. When Mary Anne first arrived she was so observant and wanting to learn new things. Mary Anne wanted to know how to do different things and she also wanted learned to care for the people who were hurt, so she can help in anyway possible she watch the things that happened around her while the war was going all the terrifying events that went on around her. Mary Anne began to get sucked up in the war. Fossie Mary Anne husband wanted her to go back home but she didn't want to so this cause a bump in their relationship . When Mary Anne leaves for days and days not letting anyone know where she's going is a sign of PTSD she wanted to be alone she didn't want to be bother with anyone . While Mary Anne was going through PTSD she became socially isolated she wanted to be by herself and not around the others like she usually likes to be. With Mary Anne begin around all the killing and life threatening events she experienced it changes her mentally. Seeing all these terrifying effects it changes her into a