Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B2, field of study: Sciences humaines et sociales)

PTSD
post-traumatic stress syndrome
There are different types of trauma, in fact, there are at least 4 types. First is type 1, it's one event that come out of blue and traumatize the person. The second one is Type 2 or complex trauma, this trauma refers to several unexpected events, for example being hit by a car every week for years. Next one is vicarious trauma, it means that you are experiencing feeling, and emotions of another person's trauma when they explain it to you. Then, there is intergenerational trauma, this type of trauma refers to a collective vision of trauma, a group of people that all experienced the same trauma, for example wars, genocides etc. And then there is one that have been discovered lately, inherited trauma. This trauma is characterized by the fact that it is in your genome. For example, your parents are traumatized by something and develop PTSD but never talk about it, it will modify their DNA. Then, when you, are born, as a child will also experience PTSD symptoms but without the trauma, you are most likely to be traumatized when you have it in your gene.
About the symptoms, they are different symptoms that can impact several aspects of your life, relationship, emotions, physically, etc. PTSD symptoms are very difficult to live with. For example, you can experience : flashbacks, vivid nightmares, of course, anxiety, and depression are here too. In another hand, you can experience chronic guilt (survivor guilt), loneliness and dissociation.
PTSD is a second pain for the victims who already have been traumatized. But if you find out you might have this syndrome, you can ask for treatment. EMDR is most of the time a good way to treat PTSD, psychologists who are using this method think that trauma are memories who have not being treated and processed by the brain. EMDR and its method open the door to these memories and allow them to be treated by the brain so they can be in the past and not in the present. To develop a bit about this method, the psychologist will ask their patients to focus on the memory and all of its compound (emotion felt, sent, noises, etc). Then, the shrink ask to follow his hand with the eyes, while moving it. By doing this process, people say that they feel better after few times.
What about the children? for them, we must allow them a space to talk about anything they want even if it's not directly related to his trauma. We must use his own word and not bring our mind into his.