War Is Not Over When It Is Over
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health condition that is triggered by past experiences. When soldiers come home, families, friends, and civilians have no idea what they have been through. They bring war back with them: The memories, the body bags, the scars. The soldiers have difficulty coping and adjusting to their life back home. People who have been deployed are walking grenades. Someone or something can remind them of what happened across seas and they become apart of the war again, reliving a memory that they wished they had forgotten. War is never over for people in the military. Experiencing past events is an everyday struggle. These memories are accompanied by intense emotion and often have physical reactions associated with it. Physical reactions can lead to muscle spasms while dreaming, or harming people because the mind is making everyone he sees the enemy. In the body, there is something called the Hyperarousal, which is commonly known as is the “fight or flight” response. This is a physiological reaction that occurs when the body feels as if it is in a harmful event. Soldiers may constantly feels in this state when they return home because this disorder goes further than the battlefield but many people do not know that. The man with the grenade on his head symbolizes how unstable he is mentally because he has been through and have seen worse things than civilians have. He could have lost a friend or had done something he regrets and wishes not to go back to that time in war. To them it is like living in a nightmare that you cannot wake up from. Therefore, war wounds are never always visible.
http://www.dynamictreatment.com/first-responders-the-evolution-of-ptsd-in-america/
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