1/20-25 Reflection

This week, we started Ceremony, a book about a Native American who fought in WWII, has PTSD and is an alcoholic. He has many symptoms of PTSD, day visions, he collapsed in The Pacific after seeing a vision of his uncle in a Japanese soldier. After he got back, he stayed in a veteran hospital for a while to recover from "Battle Fatigue", he was sent back, but he collapsed on the train home. His aunt took care of him after that, reluctantly. After that he generally just drifted around and freaked out, cause you know, PTSD. He developed alcoholism after the war, to deal with his troubles, it didn't work and made it worse.