Critical Reading- Akayoye

“Is PTSD Contagious?”

“Brannan Vines has never been to war. But she’s got a warrior’s skills: hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning for danger, for triggers”.

• how its really tell about hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning ?
• who is brannan vine and why she that really important that she have been to war ?
• how she able to got warrior’s skills from  ?

“Skills on the battlefield, crazy-person behavior in a drug store, where she was recently standing behind a sweet old lady counting out change when she suddenly became so furious her ears literally started ringing”.

• why make her behavior like crazy person ?
• how that author know that she is acting crazy while standing old lady ?

“Sometimes I can’t do the laundry,” Brannan explains, reclining on her couch. “And it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m too tired to do the laundry,’ it’s like, ‘Um, I don’t understand how to turn the washing machine on.’ I am looking at a washing machine and a pile of laundry and my brain is literally overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to reconcile them.” She sounds like she might start crying, not because she is, but because that’s how she always sounds, like she’s talking from the top of a clenched throat, tonally shaky and thin” .

• she do laundry that its become her daily basic stuff hat she do and she got tired doing that .
• she sound like she about to cry doing that .
• her voice sounds like clenched throat , tonally shaky and thin .

“Caleb has been home since 2006, way more than enough time for Brannan to catch his symptoms”

• Caleb spend some time with brannan more enough . did brannan catch his symptoms while she spending time with him ?
• The author also says that Brannan is “catching his symptoms,” but she could get some flue shots or she could show to doctor for illness .