PTSD is not a ‘military’ illness. Nor is it something automatically, or routinely, suffered by those who serve in HM Armed Forces.
It’s a modern truism that ‘most people get most of their information’ through the news media. Today the BBC broadcast an interview with Noah Pozner’s mother.
Noah, the youngest victim of the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, was six years old when he was killed in a hail of bullets at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
His twin sister Arielle, assigned to a different classroom, survived the shooting. Noah and Arielle were inseparable.
When his mother Veronique was asked by a BBC journalist today how Arielle was coping she said matter-of-factly “She has PTSD”.
Refreshing to hear an intelligent woman ascribe the condition to a grieving child, albeit in such tragic circumstances.
