PTSD is is a mental disorder that affects people who have been through very traumatic experiences. It is commonly known that it can be found in soldiers who come home from war. It is less commonly known that PTSD can be passed onto people. This has become evident in Iraq veteran Caleb Vine’s wife Brannan.
Caleb Vine has been suffering from PTSD since 2006, when he came home from Iraq. Since then, the symptoms of PTSD have been passed on to his wife Brannan. She suffers from symptoms like hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning for danger, actions that are not usually in good use when in a grocery store.
The question is how did she come to get PTSD. She never really went through any trauma. The writer of the article Mclelland suspects that the trauma she experienced is dealing with her husbands PTSD, as if she “learned” the symptoms and behaviors. This would support the claim that PTSD is “contagious”. The Vine family is worried that it may be contagious, and that they could one day pass it onto their daughter.
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This is good work, CasperTheGhost, but it’s vague exactly where it should be clear. You say:
1. She went through no trauma
2. She is going through the trauma of dealing with her husband’s behavior.
3. She “learned” the behavior
4. Therefore PTSD is contagious.
Obviously, Brannan can’t both experience trauma and not experience trauma. Then, if living with her husband’s frightening and unpredictable behavior actually is traumatic, why do we need the analogy of her “learning” anything from him? She’s traumatized and therefore develops TSD. Right? So, is PTSD contagious or not?
Awaiting your reaction.
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Still vague where it should be specific. You never actually challenge the premises or claims of the original, which is the purpose of Critical Reading.
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