PTSD In Terry's Father
Terry’s dad has PCSD for a lot of reasons.First of all, his dad’s eyes went away, then he stops everything he’s doing.Evidence of this is on pages 49 and 50 paragraph 3 when it states, “Sometimes during a meal his father’s fork would stop halfway to his mouth, just stop, and they're would be a long pause while the eyes went away, far away.”This suggests that he is having a flashback.
Then Terry, father diagnosed by a doctor that something is wrong with him. An example from the text found on page 50 when it states,”It’s from the war, his mother had said. The doctors at the veterans’ hospital call it the Vietnam syndrome.”This is important because a doctor had said that he had a syndrome from the war and it’s probable PTSD.
His father was acting
Then Terry, father diagnosed by a doctor that something is wrong with him. An example from the text found on page 50 when it states,”It’s from the war, his mother had said. The doctors at the veterans’ hospital call it the Vietnam syndrome.”This is important because a doctor had said that he had a syndrome from the war and it’s probable PTSD.
His father was acting