How Trauma Can Affect Lives Living life after being a victim or a witness to some severe trauma can cause some individuals to have flashbacks to parts of their life where the trauma has been so fierce and fresh. Sometimes survivors of these horrible trauma can some individuals to act out in violence after something triggers them to remember the ordeal. As I was reading the novel The Suspect by L.R. Wright, I was reminded about hearing many different crimes and how it has affected the lives of the families involved. `In the book The Suspect, L.R. Wright starts the novel talking about how the main character George Wilcox killed his ex-brother-in-law Carlyle Burke in an isolated little community of Sechelt, British Columbia. Wright describes …show more content…
He used to set fires to many different things and other things as well while he was drinking. After he sobered up he would feel really bad for the things he did. It wasn’t for many years later while a judge was reviewing his criminal records, that she saw a pattern forming and requested that he went for some testing. It was because of that testing that the judge was able to inform him that his impulsiveness was caused because of him having FASD, and that lead him along the path that he was taking. It was because of that judge that he was able to make the necessary changes to his life. Upon doing some research on the subject I found it interesting that many individuals have “deficits [which] are associated with damage to specific areas in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and corpus callosum” ( Schwartz-Bloom, Ph.D., Zieff, , M.Ed. and Williams, Ph.D.) parts of the brain. Due to the damage individuals with FASD have a hard time controlling impulsivity. While reading about how George’s dad was abusive made me wonder if he had FASD as well or was just a plain