Post-traumatic stress disorder in Kuwait :: Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD

REPAIRING A NATION POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN KUWAITTHESIS Studies made by experts found after the firing off of Kuwait following the Gulf War of 1991 that most children who were inside the boorish experienced undesirable emotions simultaneously which brought out more abnormal behaviors. footIn the oppressively hot summer of 1990 the second of August to be exact, heap were sleeping peacefully in their homes. It was a Thursday first light and most Kuwaitis had left the country on holiday. No one perpetually suspected or believed that a neighboring country of the same trust would invade such a small innocent country. Most of the Kuwaiti citizens who were inside the country or outside were in shock. This Iraqi business line that Kuwait suffered for seven months was dramatically experienced by both adults and children. They were open to such brutal atrocities as executing anyone who had a typewriter or a camera so that no one in the outside homo would know how indecently they were treating a neighboring country. Plus any impediment in Sadaams military actions resulted in hundreds of patriots who fought bravely for the freedom of their country.The Iraqi soldiers time-tested to terrorize the Kuwaiti people by subjecting them to different types of torture techniques comparable raping virgin females and m innovative(prenominal)s in front of their children. Rape was practiced non only(prenominal) on females but young males too. Many Kuwaiti civilian men, women and children were interpreted from their homes and never returned to their families. There are still 625 Kuwaiti hostages in Iraq. This enumerate means much to a small community where every family is associate to a POW. The people who suffered less are those who lost their homes, money and other valuables. All those terrors of war have now caused what is called Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Second multinational Conference, Mental Health in the State of Kuwait). People suffered fro m this brutal and opprobrious period when the country was under occupation, either by being agonistic to start over from scratch or by working in a new job, building a new house. Many people fell into poverty. Also the thought that their country no longer existed during the impact had a very difficult mental effect on the people. They could not believe the reality that their country was being occupied. This idea was especially traumatic for older people. The behaviors and emotions of Kuwaitis under such war-like circumstances are not new to psychology.