“Is PTSD Contagious?”

“Brannan Vines has never been to war. But she’s got a warrior’s skills.”

Who is Brannan Vines and because of her lack of war experience how is she able to have skills of a warrior. Also, in terms of skills which skills in particular does the author believe Brannan Vines has and where did Brannan Vines get these skills from.

“Skills on the battlefield, crazy person behavior in a drug store”

What makes Brannan Vines behavior considered crazy.? From this statement the author transitions from speaking about the skills Vines posses to how she behaved like a crazy person in a drug store but not everyone can agree on every subject, so how does the author know what is considered crazy and what is not.

“Her nose starts running she’s so pissed, and there she is standing in a CVS, snotty and deaf with rage, like some kind of maniac, because a tiny elderly woman needs an extra minute to pay for her dish soap or whatever.”

Why does the author portray Vines in such a way using the phrase, “like some kind of maniac” as if to imply Vines was a psychotic person. Further more how does she know if the elderly woman is tiny or not. What if during the situation the elderly woman was around the same height as Vines would that change some readers perspective? By stating the elderly woman was tiny was the author trying to pursue the readers to think to that because the elderly woman was tiny it made Vines reaction worse.

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

How is that time frame more than enough time for Brannan to catch for Caleb’s PTSD symptoms? Which symptoms did Brannan catch from Caleb and how do we know if she caught them from Caleb instead of them developing on their own from her experiences in life. By this statement is the author trying to imply that Brannan caught Caleb’s symptoms? What happened within the time Caleb came back in 2006 until now for Brannan to catch his symptoms. Did Brannan catch Caleb’s symptoms while they were spending time together such as talking with each other, interacting with each other throughout the day or simply whenever Brannan observes or sees Caleb react a certain way to a particular situation.

“IS PTSD CONTAGIOUS”

“Sometimes I can’t do the laundry,” Brannan explains, reclining on her couch.

• Brannan is unable to do laundry for some reason.
• She may not be physically able to do so, or she may not want to do so.
• She reclined in her chair indicating she is comfortable and at ease.

“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.”

• Brannan’s brain is overwhelmed by attempting to do normal day to day tasks such as doing her laundry.
• Normal efforts that are normally routine are difficult for her.
• She could be suffering from a number of neurological diseases ( Alzheimer’s disease, PTSD, etc.), or she has a physical handy-cap that prevents her from doing such things.
• Brannan isn’t too lazy or physically incapable of doing her laundry.
• Her mind isn’t blank when she attempts to use the laundry machine indicating it is not some sort of  Alzheimer’s Disease she is dealing with.

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.

• Brannan’s voice may be shaky and unsure. The author didn’t mention her eyes watering, so she may not appear to be crying just the tone of her voice seems to resemble that of a person crying.
• The fact that shes ready to cry may indicate that she is unsure of herself or is upset about the incident.
• The author continues and states that’s how she always sounds.
• Which plants the idea that she may always feel uneasy about her surroundings.
• Since her voice is shaky and thin, she may feel frightened, much like that of a person who has PTSD.

She looks relaxed for the moment, though, the sun shining through the windows onto her face in this lovely leafy suburb.

• There are moments when she is not tense and frightened.
• She enjoys the sun and it sets her at ease, much like a place of escape.
• Her symptoms seem to be that of an individual who has gone through something traumatic, or that of someone that is new to living in a bad part of town.
• Since her home and neighborhood was mentioned as a “lovely leafy suburb” it has been established that she does not live in a dangerous city, much like Camden or Trenton, but rather a safe suburb much like Cherry Hill or Glassboro.

We raise the blinds in the afternoons, but only if we are alone. When we hear Caleb pulling back in the driveway, we jump up and grab their strings, plunging the living room back into its usual necessary darkness.

• Brannan starts the statement off as we indicating besides her and the man mentioned later in the sentence (caleb) someone else lives there. This person may be a child or a family member.
• Brannan enjoys the sunlight shining on her face, but she can only do so when she is not accompanied by Caleb.
• Caleb is most likely her significant other.
• Caleb likes it dark in the house, this a warning sign of an individual with PTSD.
• This type of darkness is usual inside of Caleb and Brannan’s house.
• By Brannan making sure that the blinds are closed when Caleb gets home, something bad must have happened when he is home and they’re not closed.
• He may have had a mental breakdown, got physical with his family and caused some form of domestic violence, or he could have had a flash back of some traumatic situation from a previous date.

Like Brannan’s symptoms. Hypervigilance sounds innocuous, but it is in fact exhaustingly distressing, a conditioned response to life-threatening situations.

• She states that Branan’s symptoms and Hypervigilance are similar
• The author assumed that the readers though Hypervigilance sounds “innocuous” or harmless, which never seemed to be the case at all just by name alone.
• Brannan’s symptoms may seem harmless then, but the author states that it is much more distressing than it may come off to be

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

• In potentially 7 years, as the article was published in 2013, Brannan had ample time to start absorbing the symptoms that Brannan sees from her husband

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.

• It is specified that the house is away from the many shopping centers, so they try to avoid as many people and potentially loud ambient sounds
• The house is painted to be almost too quiet, where they can hear the minuscule sounds. This is probably for Caleb’s sake as sudden noises would further torture Caleb.

 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.

• When the silence is gone, it usually is a result of Caleb freaking out, which makes the monotony more appealing but tense.
• Brennan makes sure to be an arm’s length away from Caleb, indicating that either she is wary about his condition or it isn’t the first time it has happened. It also further shows the tenseness of the family members in regards to Caleb.
• The entire family is doing everything they can in trying to keep Caleb as calm and safe as possible; but, doing so is making the entire family completely tense.

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.

• Brannan knows that it isn’t the worst that Caleb could have potentially been.
• Other husbands have acquired drug problems to cope with stress, showcasing how negative this stress really is to have to resort to drugs
• Other military wives are in even tenser situations.
• The wives have been beaten up and or panicked by being touched, which indicates accidental abuse
• The word again also indicates that the wives may have experienced the

“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.

• Brannan knows how to do laundry and her incapability to do the laundry isn’t based on her willingness to do it but her mental capability to.
• Brannan starts to panic doing laundry as the environment has been a place where that small action can cause panic
• It’s noted that she always sounds that she’s on the verge of tears because the tone of her voice instead of actually being on the verge of tears. This sounds a bit off as anyone with that amount of stress and panic will sound like they are about to cry.

We raise the blinds in the afternoons, but only if we are alone. When we hear Caleb pulling back in the driveway, we jump up and grab their strings, plunging the living room back into its usual necessary darkness.

• When Caleb is not around, the family can become a bit more relaxed and enjoy things that the family used to do.
• Jumping up and lowering the blinds immediately when Caleb hasn’t even entered the home shows how much the family is attempting to soothe Caleb and how urgent the matter is to them.
• It indicates that family may treasure the time without Caleb, as when he returns the family immediately has to become tense again in order to cater to the struggling veteran.
• The word necessary also indicates that it may be unwanted by the family, but is needed for Caleb so the family will undergo it.

 

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

• The article was written in 2013, so Caleb had been home for 7 years
• Most readers will not look at the date the article was written. This can coerce people to think that he has been home for a much longer time and add to their premise.

The house… is often quiet as a morgue. You can hear the cat padding around. The air conditioner whooshes, a clock ticks.

• Rhetoric
• Added animation to describe the eerie silence in the house.

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.

• “Caleb screaming at Brannan because she’s just woken him up from a nightmare“: This quote is used to show the violence of his PTSD and how it affects the family.
• “after making sure she’s at least an arm’s length away in case he wakes up swinging“: snuck in at the end of the sentence to surprise the reader. Obviously, if she has to make sure she is an arm’s length away, there have been times where she hasn’t and has gotten hit by her husband.

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.

• News is avoided in the house because of how it affects Caleb
• Another example of how this affects the family
• Goes to show how easily Caleb is set off

Brannan and Caleb can be tense with their own agitation, and tense about each other’s.

• They both have their agitation
• They love each other so they don’t like when the other is agitated
• Twice the amount of agitation

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.

• Caleb has a therapy dog
• This shows the severity of his PTSD
• “try to calm him by jumping onto his chest” his dog is used in public. This tells us that Caleb gets very anxious, very often, when he leaves his house.

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.

• Caleb is not on drugs
• Drug use is not a valid excuse for his behavior now
• Caleb has it easier (although not easy) than other soldiers

She has not, unlike military wives she advises, ever been beat up.

• Caleb has not ever beat her (intentionally? Think back to waking him 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.

• Brannan has not been raped by her husband either
• This enforces the claim that his PTSD is much better than some other cases

“Sometimes I can’t do the laundry… 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.”

• Not necessarily a symptom of PTSD
• Shows many common emotions a human may feel, especially when in such a stressful environment.
• PTSD may be being confused with stress, anxiety, or malaise.

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.

• Again, her sadness does not necessarily mean PTSD
• Appealing to common feelings and emotions

She looks relaxed for the moment, though, the sun shining through the windows onto her face in this lovely leafy suburb. We raise the blinds in the afternoons, but only if we are alone.

• The blinds are open when Caleb is not home
• Objects outside window must be a trigger
• If someone walks outside of window, must affect Caleb poorly.

When we hear Caleb pulling back in the driveway, we jump up and grab their strings, plunging the living room back into its usual necessary darkness.

• Strengthens previous sentence
• Their entire family lives in darkness while Caleb is home
• Lack of sunshine can cause subconscious depression
  • This may be affecting the family member’s

 

This entire article seems to follow a very large post-hoc fallacy.

Unlike PTSD, secondary traumatic stress doesn’t have its own entry in the DSM, though the manual does take note of it, as do many peer-reviewed studies and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

-The author claims that secondary stress does not have its own entry in the DSM, but nevertheless, other sources do take note of it. The claim shows that while it may not be a primary medical concern along the lines of first-hand PTSD, it is still an important topic that needs to be discussed.

Symptoms start at depression and alienation, including the “compassion fatigue” suffered by social workers and trauma counselors.

-The claim here is that symptoms of PTSD start at depression and alienation. A slightly different, yet related claim immediately after is that an additional symptom includes “compassion fatigue”. These claims are factual based off of observations and analysis of those who suffer from PTSD. As true as these claims may be, the second one about compassion fatigue is not explained. Given, I can interpret it in a way that makes sense to me, but not every reader may be able to provide a definition for what compassion fatigue is with the context clues provided.

But some spouses and loved ones suffer symptoms that are, as one medical journal puts it, “almost identical to PTSD except that indirect exposure to the traumatic event through close contact with the primary victim of trauma” is the catalyst.

-This complex claim states that the spouses and loved ones of victims that suffer from PTSD go through similar feelings and side effects as the victim simply because of their close contact with the person. This is a well assembled causal claim. PTSD being “passed on” to somebody in this scenario is like a domino effect. Neither person would have it if both of them did not go to war, and if it was a person of lesser significance, it also may not hit that close to home and effect the person since it would not have to be dealt with on a daily basis.

Basically your spouse’s behavior becomes the “T” in your own PTSD.

-This claim is stating that a PTSD victim’s spouse will begin to behave in a way that is traumatic. The quality of this claim is subpar because their behavior could very well also become the “S” in your own PTSD (stressed or stressful). I also just see the claim as reaching to attempt to pull off a play on words of some sort. It could definitely be considered true or accurate, but I just see it as a little bit shallow and too open for interpretation.

If sympathy for Caleb is a little lacking, you can imagine what little understanding exists for Brannan.

-This claim is saying that people lack sympathy for Caleb’s PTSD, who was actually at war, therefore significantly less sympathy or understanding is shown for Brannan, who did not go through what Caleb went through. This is a bit of a trickle-down effect in that fact that if a person does not have sympathy or understanding for a man who was on the battlefield, then they will have a significantly less amount of compassion toward the spouse of that person who was at home.

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

-By saying that Caleb being home since 2006 is “more than enough time for Brannan to catch his symptoms,” it is almost as if the author is saying that with enough time, anyone living with a PTSD victim will eventually inherit PTSD themselves.
-The author also says that Brannan is “catching his symptoms,” in order to further relate it to the idea of it being contagious like the flu or some other physical illness. This could be misleading, because if anything, Brannan would be developing her own personal PTSD. In other words, her symptoms would be associated with a violent husband rather than Caleb whose symptoms would be related to the violence found in war.

“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.”

-The author compares the house that Brannan lives to a morgue to accentuate how quiet the house is. There are many other options that the author could have compared the quietness of the house to, but she went for a morgue seemingly, because of how the house and the morgue also share a sense of tragedy.

“You can hear the cat padding around. The air conditioner whooshes, a clock ticks.”

-The grammar of this sentence is rather disorienting. It is clear what the author is expressing, but is not written correctly or clearly. What the author is trying to express however, is that the house is so quiet that any noises that are heard are more noticeable than normal. This description gives off an unpleasant atmosphere rather than a peaceful one, because of the author’s earlier comparison to a morgue.

“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.”

-This sentence only further builds the quiet nature of the house as distressing. The author unnecessarily adds the detail of Brannan having to stay an arm’s length away from Caleb when he wakes up. While it does further describe the stress she goes through, it is arguably unnecessary in this context since the topic at hand are the sounds that are made within the house.

“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.”

-While the author clearly was implying that news is a trigger to Caleb, because of how it will occasionally cover wars, and maybe even the war Caleb fought in, it does not outright say it. If a reader is uninformed enough, they may have no clue as to why the news is a trigger to Caleb. This lack of detail is generally seen through the article and definitely takes away from the author’s argument.

Is PTSD Contagious?

• Brannan has never been to war.
• Although Brannan is warrior, she has skills hyperawareness, hypervigilance, and adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning for danger, for triggers. Super stimuli-sensitive.
• However, she suddenly encounter that every sound was too cognizant.
• Caleb was sent to Iraq twice in his military career and suffered PTSD or traumatic brain injury
• Caleb has been home since 2006 which gives enough time for the PTSD symptoms to spread.
• Brannan’s nervous system spiking on regular.
• They live in small town in southwest corner of Alabama which there is limited noise.
• The cat padding around. The air conditioner whooshes, a clock ticks. When a sound erupts Caleb screams at Brannan because she’s just woken him up from a nightmare
• Caleb and Brannan are arm’s length this indicates that they both are dangerous for each other.
• How can they watch Netflix? Netflix can include war movies, documentaries for news, horror.
• They have specialized German shepherd for PTSD veterans such as Caleb to keep him in check. When the dog barks, how can it help Caleb because he is nuisance to noises?
• Brennan cannot do laundry due to noises of the washer and dryer.
• Brennan and Caleb are exposed to the light like the sun they are not capable of the darkness. The light represents happiness and darkness represents sadness.
• We see a significant change both Brennan and Caleb. Caleb at age 22 was living a healthier life. Now he is gain weight and does not look how he used too.
• PTSD not only a condition but can change physical nature of the human body.

“Is PTSD Contagious?”

“But whatever people have called it, they haven’t been likely to grasp or respect it.”

• PTSD has had several different names given to it throughout history.
• Many do not understand the true meaning of PTSD.
• Many do not respect or take PTSD seriously.

“In 1943, when Lt. General George S. Patton met an American soldier at an Italian hospital recovering from “nerves,” Patton slapped him and called him a coward.”

• “Nerves” is one of the different names that PTSD was given based on the time period. This supports her claim in the earlier sentence.
• Even military generals many times can not understand PTSD and may attribute it to cowardice. This supports her claim made in the earlier sentence, that no matter what name PSTD was given, many are not likely to respect it.

“In 2006, the British Ministry of Defense pardoned some 300 soldiers who had been executed for cowardice and desertion during World War I, having concluded that many were probably just crippled by PTSD.”

• PTSD has been misunderstood for a long time, including the WWI era, and governments are beginning to discover PTSD for the crippling disorder that it is.
• How did the government choose which soldiers to pardon? Did they use today’s symptoms of PTSD to diagnose past soldiers?
• PTSD has often been referred to as cowardice and desertion. This supports her earlier claim about different names being used to describe PTSD.
• People were executed for displaying symptoms of PTSD, which was then regarded to as cowardice/desertion. This supports her earlier claim that people sometimes do not understand PTSD fully and therefore have trouble respecting it.

“Granted, diagnosing PTSD is a tricky thing. The result of a malfunctioning nervous system that fails to normalize after trauma and instead perpetrates memories and misfires life-or-death stress for no practical reason, it comes in a couple of varieties, various complexities…”

• PTSD is not easy to diagnose. This claim provides justification to those mentioned earlier, such as General Patton, who could not grasp and respect PTSD. Its difficult diagnosis could be a factor in the misunderstanding of it.
• PTSD is caused by a malfunctioning nervous system.
• PTSD is different for everyone since it comes “in a couple of varieties, various complexities.” This supports the claim that PTSD is hard to diagnose, since it is not just the same list of symptoms for every sufferer.
• PTSD stress begins for no practical reason.

“…has causes ranging from one lightning-fast event to drawn-out terrors or patterns of abuse—in soldiers, the incidence of PTSD goes up with the number of tours and amount of combat experienced.”

• PTSD does not always occur because of just one traumatic event. It can be the result of a period of traumatic events.
• She claims that the incidence of PTSD goes up with the amount of combat experience. This almost contradicts her previous claim that PTSD is complex and has a lot of variety. If it was complex, as she stated, it couldn’t be true that PTSD affects soliders in such a linear predictable pattern. The way she stated it indicates fact because she did not include the words “in most cases,” or “most commonly.”

“As with most psychiatric diagnoses, there are no measurable objective biological characteristics to identify it. Doctors have to go on hunches and symptomology rather than definitive evidence.”

• There are no biological characteristics that can be undoubtedly used to identify PTSD. This again supports her previous claim that PTSD is hard to diagnose.
• Even doctors have trouble accurately identifying PTSD. This supports her earliest claim that PTSD is misunderstood and hard to grasp.
• They often rely on symptoms rather than definitive evidence. This claim indicates that diagnoses are not based on fact, meaning that some soldiers diagnosed with PTSD may not actually have it and others who do have it may not be diagnosed. One of her previous claims says that PTSD is very complex and not the same for everyone. So, if the doctors are simply using “symptomology” to diagnose PTSD, there must be fault in that.

Determining if PTSD is Contagious

“Brannan Vines has never been to war, but her husband, Caleb, was sent to Iraq twice, where he served in the infantry as a designated marksman. He’s one of103,200, or 228,875, or 336,000 Americans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and came back with PTSD, depending on whom you ask, and one of 115,000 to 456,000with traumatic brain injury.”

• Brannan Vines has never been to war.
• She personally doesn’t know how it feels to have PTSD because she hasn’t experienced that war like environment.
• Caleb is in fact a victim of PTSD from serving in the war with Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Depending on who i ask one of 115,000 to 456,000 have this traumtic brain injury. So if i ask one person it’s true but if i ask another person its false?

” Imagine there’s a murderer in your house. And it is dark outside, and the electricity is out. Imagine your nervous system spiking, readying you as you feel your way along the walls, the sensitivity of your hearing, the tautness in your muscles, the alertness shooting around inside your skull. And then imagine feeling like that all the time.”

• PTSD gives you a feeling of discomfort, like there is a murderer in your house.
• PTSD can give you a feeling you would get if it was dark outside and the electricity went out. So you have that anxious feeling that someone is in your house
• Apparently it makes you so alert to your surroundings, you have sensitivity to hearing, and just makes you so nervous about something bad happening literally all the time. You feel as if you cant get a good nights sleep because you have to watch over your shoulder all the time.
• This feeling seems to stay with people who suffer from PTSD for a long period of time and in most cases forever.

“Granted, diagnosing PTSD is a tricky thing. The result of a malfunctioning nervous system that fails to normalize after trauma and instead perpetrates memories and misfires life-or-death stress for no practical reason, it comes in a couple of varieties, various complexities, has causes ranging from one lightning-fast event to drawn-out terrors or patterns of abuse—in soldiers, the incidence of PTSD goes up with thenumber of tours and amount of combat experienced”

• If you diagnose someone with PTSD  it can indeed be a misunderstanding.
• Peoples actions tend to vary if they are a victim of PTSD they become very dangerous to be around.
• A lot of times people tend to forget things no matter how important it is just a symptom of this disease
• People who suffer from this disease usually have problems with abuse and are terrified of little things like an explosion on a televison can give them a flashback of a time in a war where a bomb went off or something of that nature.
• Abuse of family members is common they believe that someone in the family is an enemy of the war and they attempt to hurt them because they think that they are a threat.

“As with most psychiatric diagnoses, there are no measurable objective biological characteristics to identify it. Doctors have to go on hunches and symptomology rather than definitive evidence.”

• Basically when a psychiatric diagnoses someone with PTSD they really aren’t 100% sure that a war vet has this symptom.
• Doctors don’t have a complete understanding of how it works they mostly just go with their gut feeling and determine if someone does have PTSD that way.
• I don’t necessarily think that’s a good thing i feel like doctors have way too much technology today to not know for sure if someone is having brain trauma or not.
• It is quite ignorant to just go with your gut feeling on something so serious as a brain injury.

“Different studies of the children of American World War II, Korea, and Vietnam vets with PTSD have turned up different results: “45 percent” of kids in one small study “reported significant PTSD signs”; “83 percent reported elevated hostility scores.” Other studies have found a “higher rate of psychiatric treatment”; “more dysfunctional social and emotional behavior”; “difficulties in establishing and maintaining friendships.”

• The children of World War 2, Korea, and Vietnam vets all have different results of PTSD.
• A percentage of 45 of kids in a small study had significant signs of PTSD while others have not.
• A larger percent of these children have reports of elevated hostility scores meaning they are more hostile and have emotional behavior than others.