Trauma + Confusion Can Equal Mystery

After realizing the severity of misrepresentation in the media of psychological disorders, I have decided to specifically research and study the illness my group and I have decided to include in our film intro, which is PTSD. 

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that may develop in some people after being exposed to a scarring event. Sexual assault, warfare, or traffic collisions are reasons that some people have developed PTSD. However, people who have suffered through trauma, including collisions and natural disasters are less likely to develop PTSD than people who have experienced the atrocity of being sexually abused or involved in war. For example, Coming Home (1978) depicts a soldier, Bob Hyde, who returns from the war in Vietnam and is wounded and suffering from PTSD. Likewise, Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower suffers from PTSD since he remembers how his Aunt sexually abused him as a young boy. Symptoms of PTSD could possibly entail frightening dreams, thoughts, or emotions related to the incident, anxiety, personality changes, and mood changes. There is not set amount of time that these symptoms will last, as it is different for each person and their personal experience. The treatment for this disorder includes speaking to a therapist or going to counseling and pills. 

Because PTSD can be a result of completely different events, our main character is going to be suffering from it. There is no set of steps that must be followed after trauma, let alone after having been diagnosed with PTSD. Therefore, my group and I want to create an interesting backstory that shapes the main character and his confusion in the introduction.  

"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." NIMH RSS. Web. 18 Mar. 2016.

Skelton, Kelly, Kerry J. Ressler, Seth D. Norrholm, Tanja Jovanovic, and Bekh Bradley-Davino. "PTSD and Gene Variants: New Pathways and New Thinking." Neuropharmacology. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Web. 18 Mar. 2016.