Forest Gump Dd Research Paper

The disorder that I have picked from this section is post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. PTSD is a phycological distorter that is defined as an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawals, jumpy anxiety, and/ or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. This disorder is usually found in soldiers returning from combat that have experienced traumatic experiences. We have seen post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosed in many American soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, but PTSD was not diagnosed as an actual disorder until the 1980s. Although it is a disorder that is newer, the symptoms have been seen in people throughout history. People who have PTSD are
Throughout history soldiers have experienced trauma and have shown signs of PTSD, but it is only now that we have been able to diagnose PTSD. The evidence that we see with people that have or have had PTSD only shows how the human body reacts to traumatic experiences. Examples of people that have been diagnosed with PTSD are 1 of every 10 veterans that have experienced combat, and the surviving victims of the attacks on the world trade center in 2001. Someone who I thought of right away a character from my favorite movie Forest Gump: Lieutenant Dan. For those of you that have never seen the movie Forest Gump, Lieutenant Dan was a Lieutenant in the United States Army. He was Forest Gump’s Lieutenant during the Vietnam war. Lt Dan came from a family of soldiers who served and died in every American war since the revolutionary war. Lt Dan wanted and expected to die in the war. One day when they were touring in the Jungle the squad was fired upon by enemy gunfire and was then ambushed by their own bombing. Just like his family before him, Lt Dan was excepting to go out with dignity and honor, but was saved by his fellow solider Forest