“Almost Sunrise”
Knowledge gained This panel discussion has impacted my life and my career. Having joined the J.R.O.T.C helped me to become a better person. However, the reality of what the soldiers got through in war is a serious problem. During the act of duty, soldiers become vulnerable and end up having problems with their family. Society thinks that this problems come from the stress they go in war known as PTSD. I acknowledge that the PTSD is to regards the fault, killed, and grief soldiers experience in war.
Tom and Anthony walked for five months to regain confidence, hope, and love. When soldiers come back from war, they have to fight with mental demons like flashbacks. This leads the soldiers to cope with unhealthy ways like drinking alcohol. The substance abuse will make the individual great for a while, but as time passed by he/she will have another stressor. For example, my professor SGM Correia had flashback when he was about to go into the
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For example, the PTSD cannot be fixed in five sessions or with pills. For Tom has taken a long time to cope and an example will the five months of walking. The walking would be considered the steps of healing. When Anthony’s foot got hurt, I considered wounds they had to open from war. The process of healing is a step of a time and requires to open traumatic events. I learned that I need to be patients and be open-minded. This field requires to be diverse regarding different believe in rituals. An incompetent therapist can cause damage to the client. For example, I went to see my therapist and he told me that I did not have any trauma. He considered me fine and that in five sessions all my problems get fixed. I had anxiety because of school and there were people who experience worst things. This therapist answer felt like if he gave me a punch in the face. For this reason, I have committed to myself to be a competent
In the Article, You Don’t Ever Get Over It, published by Simon Hattenstone tells an insight of a man who shares his symptoms after war when, “At times he would be afraid to sleep because of the nightmares [he] was having. An example of tensing up when [he] saw hazard warning lights on a vehicle. [He] explained that in Iraq, vehicles loaded with explosive devices only had their hazard warning lights on,” (Simon Hattenstone). A british soldier named Robert Kilgour shares his after-war experience that let his health symptoms change his mental state of mind. With this in mind manifests Tim O'brien's view of how war can affect a soldier's emotional state of mind.
More than half a million service members face mental health challenges during and after war. During war, soldiers are exposed to many different traumatic events that raise the chances of facing mental health challenges. The most common mental health problems soldiers are more likely to carry with them after war is PTSD, depression, alcohol addiction, and anxiety. In the book, “The Things They Carried,” written by Tim O’Brien, characters carried things that are both literal and figurative. While the soldiers carry heavy physical items, they also carry mental, emotional, and physical baggage.
The title of this group of stories is not solely based on the physical burdens the men had to carry through Vietnam but the mental and emotional issues they are stuck with after the war.
Continuing To Be Affected Soldiers participating in a war they do not understand, suffer physical and mental anguish trying to cope with the horrors of it all. Tim O’Brien is both the narrator and protagonist of the short story “The Things They Carried.” He enters the war a scared young man afraid of the shame that dodging the war would bring him and leaves the war a guilt-ridden middle-aged man who tells stories about Vietnam in order to cope with his painful memories. Jimmy Cross’s character represents the deep effects responsibility has on those who are too immature to handle it. As a sophomore in college, he signs up for the Reserve Officers Training Corps because it is worth a few credits and because his friends are doing it.
A Wounded Soul In the Vietnam War, soldiers did not only carry approximately eighty five pounds of equipment, but the emotional burdens of war itself. The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien gives insight to how the Vietnam War affected the lives, and minds of the servicemen. O’Brien shows the impact by explaining different stories that have stuck with him throughout his life, and even though Vietnam is over, the battle of a veterans mental health is the strongest fight they will endure. In evaluating the soldiers’ mindset, relationships, and acceptance in society post war, this essay argues the consequences of veterans unable to find their life meaning and sanity.
By attaching stories to deaths, and names to the faces of soldiers who otherwise would be just another killed in action, the real experiences of what it was to be a soldier in Vietnam come to life in ways cold hard facts and reality cannot. O’Brien’s book is not about war. It’s about the people who lived through the terror of being in Vietnam. As O’Brien writes “It’s about love and memory. It's about sorrow”(81).
After the Vietnam War, soldier’s attitudes, emotions, and thinking had changed who they are and become. The Things They Carried (1990), written
Millions of people in the USA alone suffer from PTSD. From car accidents, domestic violence,assault, war, and seeing a loved one or best friend die; PTSD has a wide variety of victims. Based on various research concerning Vietnam war veterans and the novel “The Things They Carried”by Tim O’Brien, war has physical, psychological, and emotional effects on Vietnam War veterans. The physical trauma soldiers endured ruined their lives and any chance of a normal life at home, if they were still alive.
The men in the Vietnam War had to deal with the painful memories and stress for the rest of their lives, however long those ended up being. The war’s strains weighed down the soldiers throughout their lives. One would think that the end of the war would have been a relief for the soldiers, but this was not always the case. When the soldiers returned
(Alexander, 15). No matter their fate of fighting in war, a soldier will be permanently changed by it. However if they are able to reach for help from others, then they could get their life back on track. Veterans need the support of others in order to cope with their mental
PTSD and being an alcoholic follows him around and constantly haunts him. In the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, it shows a true story of a soldier’s life of positives and negatives while being stranded out at sea, being a prisoner of war, and having post
The True Weight of War “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien, brings to light the psychological impact of what soldiers go through during times of war. We learn that the effects of traumatic events weigh heavier on the minds of men than all of the provisions and equipment they shouldered. Wartime truly tests the human body and and mind, to the point where some men return home completely destroyed. Some soldiers have been driven to the point of mentally altering reality in order to survive day to day. An indefinite number of men became numb to the deaths of their comrades, and yet secretly desired to die and bring a conclusion to their misery.
But like the violence, it soon became normal. And Scott continued the daily routine from running in the morning to movies in the night. While the Army brought out the worst in everyone there were some positive things that changed my dad’s life. For example, even now he still remembers the speeches his drill sergeant would give his unit after a long day. “It gave you five or ten minutes of normalcy at the end of the day.”
DISCUSSION From the beginning, the therapist had to deal with own doubts and anxiety. The therapist had heard a lot about the psychodynamic psychotherapy but this was the first time he conduct the sessions by himself. Unlike pharmacotherapy, there is no standard clinical practice guideline or recommendation for the therapist to refer to or follow. The therapist was worried that he was unable to conduct the therapy effectively and his patient would not benefit from the therapy.
Soldiers train rigorously, preparing for the departure of war. They sacrifice all that they have to fight for their country. As they return after the war, they are left with painful experiences and traumatizing memories, suffering from their inevitable conditions. However, the spouse, families and children back at home are suffering even more than soldiers.