Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Case Study

Historically women have always been seen as nurturers, home makers and care providers. Women who stay away from their families on long deployments or choose to put their career before family, seriously damage the family structure and the seperation can have very negative effects on children. Additionally women who suffer from PTSD may be unable to care for their children in a functional manner, leaving their child/ children bereft of a mother figure. Now more than ever, studies are coming out backing up the importance of a mother’s role. Recently it has been proven that a mother’s well-being, relationship status, stability, and availability are directly related to the success of her family. A study published in 2014 shows that children …show more content…
June Moss detailed her experience of being a mother with PTSD in an interview with CNN. After returning from her tour in Iraq as a light-vehicle mechanic, Moss became extremely overprotective of her children. Paranoid that she and her loved ones were in danger and stuck in the combat mentality, Moss stayed in her house and avoided crowds at all costs. Logically she knew she was safe at home, but emotionally and mentally she could not shake the fear that someone was lurking in the shadows. Two years later, depressed, overwhelmed and unstable, she slit her wrists to end the pain. Moss recalls that when her children asked her why she did it, the only answer she could give them was that she had a bad day. Thankfully she lived through that experience and has since progressed through intense therapy and undying family support. Even so, PTSD rehab is a never-ending, uphill battle. To date there is no known cure for PTSD. Treatment and support is the best rehab there is to offer and in the world of PTSD, Moss says, “You're always one incident from spiraling out of control back to where you were -- being depressed, not coming out of the house, not being able to sleep, having night terrors, night sweats, all those kinds of things." This constant state of being on edge takes a tremendous toll on everyone involved in the situation and in the case of Sgt. Moss, the effects of her condition extended beyond her home and into the workplace. In 2010, seven years after returning home, Moss got into an altercation at work which led her to strike a fellow employee. She says the reaction “came out of nowhere.” This was a painful reminder of the deep and long-lasting effects combat has on a soldier. Over the years Moss has worked very hard to repair her damaged relationship with her children and recently went to a concert with her daughter, Briana, despite her very real fear of crowds. Slowly she is putting the pieces of her life back together, but even she admits it

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