Precious Movie Ptsd

Precious is a teen who is suffering from obesity and also has other disorders. The movie Precious is a different type of film. She was pregnant with her father's child for the second time at the age of 16 years old and suffers from abuse from her mother. Precious was being abused physically, mentally and emotionally. Although some knew these things were occurring it took a while for anyone to help her. Precious soon sees a change to be able to head in the right direction in her life. When her second pregnancy occur it caused her school to send her to an alternative school. Where she then there learns how to read and write for the first time. Also her mother would not give her money to eat knowing she was pregnant that she needed to eat more and health for the baby.

PTSD

PTSD is a disorder in which a person has difficulty

recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.

PSTD includes Flashbacks and nightmares. PTSD is very common more than 3 million US cases per year.

How they are portrayed by PSTD

Precious is a victim of venous psychological traumas and anxieties she faces constant child abuse, rape, domestic violence, and physical mental abuse and her mother as well suffers from anxiety. During the movie precious has recurrent flash backs of sexual abuse received from her father. Precious is also constantly around her vicious mother's violent and demeaning put downs. This all did not help with precious self-esteem. Precious suffers from many things such as, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress, eating disorder. Precious as well is tested HIV positive do from her father. Precious is suffering from self esteem because of the violent from her mother and her mother always puts her down. Also because all the comments she gets from her classmates for

being overweight and even her mother would bully her to make unhealthy food. And a mother always has to protect their child in anyway but precious mother instead never protected her from her father abuse. Precious mother is just mentally ill for not even protecting her daughter from being rape from her father there cannot be anything more traumatic than being rape and even worse from your father. Being rape affects that person so much not only does they leave them with the disorder PSTD but also can affects them their trust and love. Some who rapes will most likely have positive HIV which the father is so that affect precious even more. She will always have flashbacks and nightmares her life if she does not get the help she needs. Precious kids will be affected a lot and have a disorder first they might lose their mother while growing up due to their mother having HIV. And when someone has a child with someone that is related to them the child has a big change to be born with a problem so that will affect precious kids.