Traumatic Experience Reflection

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All I see is my reflection in the water, I’m telling myself should I or should I not jump? Next thing I remember was trying to save myself from drowning, however every time I tried jumping up, the water kept sucking me in further down. All I could see was the bright sun slowly disappearing, I was running out of breath, is this the end of me, I thought? I open my eyes to see a beautiful man looking down at me, I could not tell if I was in heaven or not. He finally told me he was the lifeguard who had recused me from the pool. At the end of the day, I was embarrassed of what I have done, I was only six years old. What six year old, who does not know how to swim, dives into a 15 feet pool. Since that day, I am afraid of anything that has to deal with deep waters. When it comes to going to the beach, I prefer to stay close to shore. I even have nightmares of drowning. This is a painful memory that I have carried throughout my whole life and no matter how much I try, I cannot get rid of this memory that haunts me. In my mind I never thought what I have been going through because of this traumatic event, was actually a disorder, which is called post-traumatic stress disorder. If you do not know what post-traumatic stress disorder is, it is a mental health condition that is triggered by a terrifying event. For Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder, they are a lot of causes, history, symptoms and ways people can get help if they have this disorder. To get a better understanding of how a person can get post-traumatic stress disorder is, it basically can happen even after a traumatic event has occurred, a person may still feel like they are still in danger. Post-traumatic stress disorder may be caused by people who are in war but can also be ... ... middle of paper ... ...accident site without constantly thinking of the “what ifs”: What if I had left home five minutes earlier? What if I had taken a different route to work? I choose PTSD as a disorder to write about because it is very interesting how anyone can basically have this disorder, and you might not even know it. They are different type of causes when it comes to getting this disorder such as; sexual abuse, car accident, robbery etc. As well as there are different way to know is someone is suffering from this disorder. The symptoms for this disorder are easily seen if someone has it. This disorder has been around for many years, was commonly seen in history through people who fought in war. If someone has Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder they should get help as soon as possible, no one should live the rest of their life about a horrifying event that happened a long time ago.

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