As I mentioned in a previous blog, I discovered that Wilfred Owen wrote the poem I am adapting "Anthem for a Doomed Youth" whilst he was in hospital being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or "Shellshock" which was caused by his experiences at war.
To get a clearer idea of what Owen may have been experiencing and feeling at the time he wrote the poem in hospital, I have decided to research PTSD a little further so that I might get a deeper understanding of what it exactly is.
I began my search by simply checking out Web MD online so that I could find out the symptoms. I used this site here.
There is a lot of useful information here, which explains how PTSD happens, how it changes the biology of the human brain and how it could affect someone from their day to day lives. It seems to be a very strange disorder, causing the inflicted person to live in a constant state of remembering a particular traumatic event.
I may explore this possibility of a character "remembering" a certain event in my film adaptation,
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