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Essay / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Nightmares
During his first night at school, while he was sleeping, he began to dream about the night his crew died. Specifically himself and his partner in the middle of the night rescue, his partner is visibly in extreme distress and Senior Chief Randall stabs him in the chest with what I believe is some sort of drug injector and he might possibly injecting themselves with epinephrine (a type of adrenaline) to maintain the rate and strength of blood flow to increase blood pressure, hoping to keep them alive until help arrives and beyond measures can be taken (cited by 3 different first speakers named in the works cited). However, despite his efforts, his partner died. From the way Senior Chief Randall reacted, it can be assumed that this wasn't his first nightmare following the incident. The second main symptom is flashbacks. During one scene they light a practice rocket, a few seconds after the rocket is lit he has to turn away because he starts to have a flashback of the young man he tried to save lighting his rocket then lighting another one himself while he waited. be rescued. Not only does he seem to have flashbacks of the incident, but it seems that certain things such as the flare trigger the flashbacks, causing mental distress and