Early intervention is critical for managing the condition. Understand Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder The invasive symptoms of PTSD can affect combat veterans and civilians alike. If there were no children, would the adults of a refugee camp have the will to endure? Less obvious than the biological fact of this is the psychological one.
Those who are not killed wind up displaced, surviving in camps and bombed-out villages, where by their mere presence they contribute to the continuance of humankind. But children (and their mothers) are present, too. These and countless others are usually fought by young adults and overseen by old men, and it is their experiences that historians tend to consider. The history of the world is a history of wars - the sieges of Jerusalem, the Mongol conquests, the Mexican Revolution, World Wars I and II, the Taiping Rebellion, the Armenian genocide, the Napoleonic Wars, the Dungan Revolt, the Vietnam War, the Seven Years’ War, the 30 Years’ War, the Roman civil wars, the Chinese Civil War, the American Civil War, the Chilean civil wars, the Liberian civil wars, the Spanish Civil War. That children, even under the worst of circumstances, are able to remain children supplies the world around them with the sense of a future, which is the equivalent of hope. The parents sit cross-legged on the ground, intent on their food, while the girl stands, another little girl by her side, and stares into the distance with a wrinkled-brow expression of adult worry. Her family is sitting with their worldly possessions in a barren field, somewhere near the border with Iran. The second picture, taken in 1974, also shows a girl of about 10. Where has this girl been, and what has she seen? Her companions are an older woman, probably her mother, and a little boy - her younger brother? Both look directly at the photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who took this picture in Dessau, as scores of Germans displaced during World War II began returning home. Her face is blank with uncertainty, but she strikes a bossy pose - one hand on her hip, the other planted firmly against the bundles. She is standing behind an enormous pile of her family’s belongings, which have been tightly packed for a long journey. The first shows a child, a girl of about 10.
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