On June 2016, there was a mass shooting in one of the gay night clubs in Orlando Florida. Around 2am on June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, 29 years old, began shooting at the patrons at the club. Report show that some though that the shots were part of the music un aware of what was going on during that time. … held everyone in the club walking around shooting and kill people around him. 38 people were pronounced dead at Pulse eleven more were eventually pronounced dead at the hospital. Omar killed 49 people and injured over 53 others and was eventually killed but the cops after the drove an armored vehicle through one of the clubs walls after almost a 3 hour hold up. This shooting took place not only against the LBGT+ community but also the Latino community. Those who were in attendance that night or had a connection with the community that was effected could be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Some might also suffer from survivors’ guilt. There are many different people who are there who survived this ordeal and believed that there was….. …show more content…
He texted her throughout the ordeal stating that he was hiding in a bathroom and there was a shooter who was killing people. He stated to his mom that he was going to die. This realization that he had said a lot he told his mom he loved him and that he needed help, and she need to call 9-1-1. Then he stopped texting his mom. This left his mom in a huge panic. For these texts woke her up in the middle of the night at these messages stopped coming and she had no information on what was going on and if her son was even alive. She went to the hospital but he was not there and no one had informed her yet about what happened to her son. Soon she found out that her son was killed and that’s why she never received any more messages. This could cause the mom to suffer from PTSD. This PTSD could present itself as not being able to sleep, being unable to
On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman rained fire down on a crowd of concert goers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured. There are three key points of interest and discussion about this tragic event that have stuck out to the American and global publics as well as to journalists, politicians and social critics around the world. These are, who was the assailant and why did he do what he did, how did this incident affect people in America and affect America as a whole and
Not everyone who experiences trauma, obtains PTSD and some people are at more risk than others. Traumatic events a person experiences puts his/her body into a fight or flight mode, which causes the person to panic(Charles PTSD). Patients try to avoid triggering their stress with certain symbols, objects or motion surrounded by. Another soldier tells his story of experiencing PTSD about how he wasn’t on the battlefield, he was simply on a train, and started to see past experiences far worse than in Afghanistan. Inside the head Sebastian Jungers, he’s scared for his life while coming to the end of the train ride, he finds himself up against a support pole, he says “ The trains were coming into the station too fast, the lights were too bright, the world was too loud. I couldn’t quite explain what was wrong, but I was far more scared than I’d ever been in Afghanistan.”Junger says, “I stood there with my back to the column until I couldn’t take it anymore, and then I sprinted for the exit and walked home. I had no idea that what I’d just experienced had anything to do with combat; I just thought I was going crazy.” As In American Sniper, sniper Chris Kyle, and in the article Sebastian Junger both experience very similar situations with PTSD only difference is the person behind the
Boone, Katherine. "The Paradox of PTSD." Wilson Quarterly. 35.4 (2011): 18-22. Web. 14 Apr. 2014.
In another article, entitled, Coping with Survivor Guilt and Grief, the author identifies two other important symptoms of survivor guilt. A major symptom many people who suffer from survivor guilt experience is an angry emotional response. Many people feel extreme rage, and will even desire to enact revenge on what they believe to be a cause of the traumatic event. This article also mentions that many people suffering from survivor guilt, and trauma in general, might experience suicidal thoughts, and other related thoughts of self-harm, due to the extreme emotional responses associated with
“Studies show that PTSD occurs in 1%-14% of the population. It can be diagnosed at any age, and can occ...
Public mass shootings have increased at an alarming rate over the past three decades and have become a growing concern for the people of the United States. It has appeared that approximately every few months, media outlets report incidences of tragedy involving a sole gunman targeting groups of people with the intent to harm or extinguish life due to various motives. Recent research data indicated that over 80 public mass shootings have occurred in the United States since 1983. Some of the more recent shootings to date are: Marysville-Pilchick High in October 2014; Santa Barbara, California in May 2014; Fort Hood, Texas U.S. Army base in April 2014; Washington Navy Yard in September 2013; Sandy Hook Elementary, Connecticut in December 2012; and Aurora Century 16 Movie Theater in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012.
Luminet, O., Curci, A., Marsh, E. J., Wessel, I., & al, e. (2004). The cognitive, emotional, and social impacts of the September 11 attacks: Group differences in memory for the reception context and the determinants of flashbulb memory. The Journal of General Psychology, 131(3), 197-224. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.fiu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/213650518?accountid=10901
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is defined by our book, Abnormal Psychology, as “an extreme response to a severe stressor, including increased anxiety, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and symptoms of increased arousal.” In the diagnosis of PTSD, a person must have experienced an serious trauma; including “actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violation.” In the DSM-5, symptoms for PTSD are grouped in four categories. First being intrusively reexperiencing the traumatic event. The person may have recurring memories of the event and may be intensely upset by reminders of the event. Secondly, avoidance of stimuli associated with the event, either internally or externally. Third, signs of mood and cognitive change after the trauma. This includes blaming the self or others for the event and feeling detached from others. The last category is symptoms of increased arousal and reactivity. The person may experience self-destructive behavior and sleep disturbance. The person must have 1 symptom from the first category, 1 from the second, at least 2 from the third, and at least 2 from the fourth. The symptoms began or worsened after the trauma(s) and continued for at least one
In December 2014 an elementary school was attacked by an armed gunman. The shooter’s name was Adam Lanza. He killed twenty first graders an...
In June of 2016, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States happens at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. In the aftermath of Sunday morning when covering the shooting, News 13 a local news channel from Orlando used pathos in their news to create fear about terrorism to the audience. On the other hand, The New York Times used eyewitness videos and expert interviews to appeal logic.
October 2002 was the beginning of what seemed like the longest three weeks in the Washington Metropolitan Area. No one wanted to believe that what was happening would change the lives of thousands. What appeared to be a random killing spree by an enraged lunatic, turned out to be part of a massive plan that claimed the lives of ten innocent people in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. When these shootings first began, they were believed to be linked to a white van or truck. It was later discovered that these shootings were being carried out by a man named John Allen Muhammad, and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan.
A seven-year study conducted by USA Today analyzing the FBI’s justifiable homicide database revealed that 96 percent of all cases involve Black people dying at the hands of white police officers, who are rarely indicted, let alone brought to trial.” (Kaplan 2014). “Some have called the Black Lives Matter a hate group whose rhetoric is partially responsible for the recent shooting of a sheriff in Texas”. Police cars were destroyed, and several police were injured.
The Orlando Shooting, the tragic event when an ISIS member shot and killed many people at a gay nightclub. A security guard named Omar Mateen, who had pledged allegiance to a terrorist group called ISIS, had entered the night club and opened fired on the people in the club. By the end of the shooting, forty-nine people had lost their lives and fifty-three people were injured. The whole country was shocked and upset about the event that took place on June 12th, 2016. As our nation 's President, Barack Obama had to reassure the country that they would do everything in their power to help the victims, the families of the victims and everyone else. He would do everything in his power to make sure
He was just like a normal, now 11, year-old boy. He went hunting, swimming, and did pretty much everything anyone else could do. She can still remember the day her brother had been shot, that was the day she had started to have terrible seizures. For when her brother was shot, it had hurt her as well. The noise had affected her brain development so part of her brain isn’t like it should. Her seizures normally last 3 to 5 minutes, about 3 times a week. At first, everyone had thought she was just faking it, but after a few weeks, they knew something was wrong. They lived near a clinic in case something like this would ever happen. Therefore they took her to the clinic to see what was going on. The doctor had told the parents her brain wasn’t developed correctly. There was an option to fix the issue, but the surgery would be costly. Therefore, they were forced to live with it. After her parents had left, they weren’t very worried about Robin, for her seizures didn’t happen as often as they used to. Her brother was acting as usual and Robin hadn’t had many seizures while the were gone. It has been 6 years since the event. While it was only two years ago when the cold war had
... event and tend to be emotionally numb” (Anxiety Disorders). PTSD leads to flashbacks and behavioral changes to try to avoid anything that might remind the affected individual of the traumatic experience.