We have made our children soldiers and drafted them into a war. Instead we come up with better lessons in running and hiding and, if necessary, fighting for their lives. The massacre was so horrific that police had to ask for DNA samples to identify victims.Īnd yet our answer is not to find better ways to keep children safe. But how do we ask kids to keep walking into places where they know they may not be safe? Harris died on the anniversary of the Uvalde shooting in which a gunman murdered 19 students and two teachers. “No child should ever have to fear going to school,” Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said in a statement. The suspects there - brothers Eugene, 18, and Brandon Watson, 17 - were just charged last month. In January 2022, Marquis Campbell, 15, was gunned down as he sat in a van after school. It is not the first time Oliver has had a dead student taken away from just outside its doors. The suspect is Jamier Perry, 15, another student. On Wednesday, Derrick Harris, 15, was shot outside Oliver Citywide Academy in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood. When we think of PTSD and kids, we often think of neglect or abuse.īut kids are going to school every day in what can be a killing ground. It isn’t only battle that can cause the condition.

So what about kids? The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder shows that up to 15% of girls and 6% of boys suffer from PTSD. It’s a larger number of a smaller sample size.

The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates six out of 100 adults will suffer from PTSD at some point in their lives, but it’s seven out of every 100 veterans. Those incidents are accompanied by sense memories like the smoke of a fire, the blast of a bomb, the crackle of gunfire and the blood of a friend - or a foe. Soldiers see and do things that etch themselves deep into their psyche. Soldiers are the most associated with the condition. Just like an old injury to a bone can flare up when a wrong move or the right weather tweaks the spot and makes the pain real again, a chain of events can do the same for someone with PTSD, dropping someone back in the same terrible moment. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health condition that arises for people who have been through events that are a tragic shock to the system.

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