Holocaust and PTSD PTSD is a serious mental disorder that can affect anyone's life. If you have experienced any major event that has caused you a lot of stress, anxiety, depression, or similar symptoms, then you could be suffering from PTSD. Not only is it those who were in the war who are affected, but most Americans today suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. ("PTSD: A Historical Perspective") Returning home from concentration camps citizens were harassed, taunted, and shunned from society for their Jewish lifestyle. Those who still believed in the heinous customs were the reason why so many had to leave home and flee to surrounding countries. After the Jews were liberated from their prisons, returning to normal life wasn't the easiest. …show more content…
PTSD and mental health wasn’t a well-known topic at this time, so people would think once you fall behind you stay behind. Everyone knows that one grandma or grandpa who is tough and confidently expresses their past lives and how they truly had to survive. "For many, many subsequent hours I listened and I learned. About the tremendously varied experiences of'survivors', for instance, and that human beings cannot be reduced to one period of their lives, even though it might have been the determining one. About the strength of mind and spirit in sometimes frail bodies"(“Life After the Holocaust”). This shows us how strong our minds can be, once we are determined, like how they were determined to survive. Again, these survivors were forced to shove the past behind them to live. They had to give up a chance to heal themselves and instead, focus on others and growing their families. Every survivor of the Holocaust has suffered from PTSD and severe trauma, the extraneous torture they were put through for what they believe was inhumane from any view you see it