Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a “psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of life-threatening events such as military combat” (“NCPTSD”). ... ” Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was not taken as a serious condition until the Vietnam War. ... ” In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, the man character, Tayo, suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The most common cause of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in women is rape and in men is combat exposure (Ochberg 71).