A Seperate Peace-Leper Leppelier, PTSD
Leper Lepellier was once a quiet, sensitive, and thoughtful boy. He conformed to his own rules and had a mind of his own. He would pack up his low self-confidence and together they would quench their thirst for nature. He would look at the world and say “what if?”, and with his wild imagination would think up an answer of his own. But the character trait that brought him to his downfall was his close-mindedness. This is what acted as the little piece of glass which was left in the foot that leads to massive infection and eventual amputation. Goes to boot camp and finds rules he didn’t want to follow, a new way of life he wasn’t used to, such as: not sleeping in a bed, but everywhere else, not eating in the hall, but everywhere else. Leper always knew he was different, but when he went to boot camp they labeled him as ‘crazy’, and since he was a low self-confident boy, he believed their outlook rather than his own. He threw himself into a world that was scary and dim, exposed to ideas he never contemplated on before and his weak mind grew weaker. A weak chain is an open gate, and this allowed Lepers’ mind to be plagued, with PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental disease that plagues the mind of the close-minded, and takes over their brain, making it an infection hard to be cured. It is the result of an experience, or a close relation to one with an experience that is overwhelmingly out of normalcy. So overwhelming that the brain cannot process it in a normal way and causes the amygdala, the part of the brain associated with how we accept fear, to become hyperactive. Most people who are diagnosed with PTSD are sensitive, because when the heart and mind are softer, they are susceptible to deeper and sharper cuts.
Some of the symptoms are PTSD are as follows: edginess, irritability, easily startled, constantly on guard, poor sleeping habits, and difficulty concentrating. PTSD also causes flashbacks, nightmares, and memories. Memories are in intensity
Some of the symptoms are PTSD are as follows: edginess, irritability, easily startled, constantly on guard, poor sleeping habits, and difficulty concentrating. PTSD also causes flashbacks, nightmares, and memories. Memories are in intensity