Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
How does one get PTSD? What causes PTSD? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by a terrifying event. Either experiencing or witnessing it. Jonathan Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tells a story about a nine year old boy, Oskar Schell, who loses his dad during 9/11 then later finds a mysterious key in his dad’s closet and decides to go on a quest to see what it unlocks. Oskar is suffering from PTSD. He represses the emotions he feels, bottles it up, and not talk about it.
PTSD is diagnosed after a person experiences symptoms for at least one month following a traumatic event. PTSD is characterized by three main types of symptoms: re-experiencing the trauma

through intrusive distressing recollections of the event or flashbacks, emotional numbness and avoidance of places, people, and activities that are reminders of the places, and increased arousal such as difficulty sleeping, concentrating, and being easily irritated and angered. Some treatments for PTSD are: Psychotherapy, medications, Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Oskar invents all these things like tea kettles, synchronized heartbeats , a reservoir under pillows to collect tears, because of the fear and loneliness of his dad’s death. “ I could invent a teakettle that reads in dad’s voice, so I could fall asleep” (Foer 1). He usually spends time on his own. He has a mother but their relationship is complicated because he felt like she moved on too