“Caleb has been home since 2006, way more than enough time for Brannan to catch his symptoms. The house, in a subdivision a little removed from one of many shopping centers in a small town in the southwest corner of Alabama, is often quiet as a morgue. You can hear the cat padding around. The air conditioner whooshes, a clock ticks. When a sound erupts—Caleb screaming at Brannan because she’s just woken him up from a nightmare, after making sure she’s at least an arm’s length away in case he wakes up swinging—the ensuing silence seems even denser. Even when everyone’s in the family room watching TV, it’s only connected to Netflix and not to cable, since news is often a trigger. Brannan and Caleb can be tense with their own agitation, and tense about each other’s. Their German shepherd, a service dog trained to help veterans with PTSD, is ready to alert Caleb to triggers by barking, or to calm him by jumping onto his chest. This PTSD picture is worse than some, but much better, Brannan knows, than those that have devolved into drug addiction and rehab stints and relapses. She has not, unlike military wives she advises, ever been beat up. Nor jumped out of her own bed when she got touched in the middle of the night for fear of being raped, again. Still.”
1.How does someone catch these symptoms just by staying home for a long time. PTSD is not contiguous.
2. How is the house that quite ? Maybe this is the only peaceful place he had since the war.
3.But he stated that the house is really quite but you can hear a cat paddling around.
4. Is this the first time he ever had a nightmare and she woke him up?Usually people with PTSD are paranoid when people are around. It seems like he doesn’t like noise because he probably is thinking about the war.
5.How can the news be a trigger but not Netflix ; On the news stories come up about war and people dying but on netflix you can pick what you want to watch.
6. Brannan and Caleb are helping each other with the PTSD. By them helping each other it is helping them both stay calm.
7. They have a dog to let them know when something is wrong just in case they are not listening. Usually when dogs jump on people that shows that they happy not that something is wrong.
8. People can have PTSD depending on their background.
9. Brannan developed PTSD differently then all the other military wives. Hers came from being around he husband and having to deal with him and his issues all day which probably triggered her.
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I’m only guessing, like you, but I think the comments about the quietness of the house are meant to indicate that sounds are triggers and therefore to be avoided. I’m unclear what you mean by Number 8, JG. And Number 9 seems to be a misinterpretation of the text. It’s the returning vets, not their spouses, who have devolved into addictions in the story. Your observation about Netflix (Number 5) is the best of the bunch.
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