On a More Serious Note....

This show isn’t real but there is definitely situations on the show that can realistically happen and are problems in the world we live in today. On that note, I can say that the list is pretty long divorce, adoption, death, and the issues that happen at the hospital alone can happen but what I’m going to talk about today is PTSD.

For those of you that aren’t really sure or aren’t aware of what that is, it’s stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and it is mental health condition triggered by experiencing or seeing a terrifying event. This can happen to anyone but I’m going to focus in on how it affects the soldiers and people serving in the military or are veterans. The reason for that is because on the show they’ve had a couple doctors who have served one of them being Dr. Owen Hunt. Throughout his time on the show there have been a few episodes where his post war problems have affected and haunted him to the point where in one of the episodes he attacked Cristina not on purpose he was having a nightmare and he ended up choking her in his sleep, it wasn’t until Callie walked in and started yelling when he finally snapped out of it and he couldn’t believe what he had done it shook him up pretty bad and he was having trouble sleeping before that but after he was afraid to fall asleep. Over the episodes and seasons between then and now you can see how he began to deal with it better but this season the episodes leading up to the winter final and the winter final episode itself you see the problem arise again when they hire in a new cardiac surgeon who recently served with Dr. April Kepner and we eventually find out he knows Hunt too. One of the new interns at the hospital comes across Owen when he was all alone in a room and he seemed to be out of it and arguing with himself alarmed the intern wanted to make sure he was okay when he got him to snap out of it but Owen wanted to be left alone.  The final gives something away that gives a clue on just why Owen hates this guy so much and why he’s having problems dealing with the situation. The new doctor knows Owen’s mom so it makes you wonder but Meredith ends up giving away the clue after she speaks to his mom alone after she’s there with her husband who is a firefighter that had been caught in a wildfire accident. The clue is Owen had a sister and just what all that means is unclear but this final had a lot of things leaving you wanting to know badly. Hopefully Owen will be okay but this is an issue like many people with this condition have to deal with the rest of their lives. It’s a serious issue that needs even more awareness begin brought to the attention of everyone because so many of the people serving or have served have this condition and so many don’t have the help they need.