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While reading the novel, Fahrenheit 451, it's very evident that Post Traumatic Disorder takes a toll on Guy Montag and Clarisse McClellan and impacts the way they live their individual lives. This specific disorder is caused by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, serious accident, or an act of violence (Parekh). When your body is trying to deal with these events, it has two ways of responding: mobilization and immobilization (PTSD in Military Veterans). Mobilization, otherwise known as fight-or-flight, is the reaction of your body when feeling attacked or at risk. Your body could do anything from making your blood pressure higher to even increasing your strength and speed. Immobilization is more of what happens after your body goes through mobilization, making your body not able to return to its normal state, causing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD in Military Veterans).  In today’s society, we have many veterans that come home from war scarred for life from the things that they see and experience while in combat. About eleven to twenty veterans, out of 100, come home with PTSD every year (National Center). The most well known of the symptoms are always being on alert, relationship problems, and suicidal thoughts. Building on the symptom of broken relationships, this disorder can also affect a person’s family and personal life. Similar to Guy Montag questioning his love for his wife, Post Traumatic Stress tears apart many families around the world.  When dealing with a family member that has Post Traumatic Stress, it’s important to treat everyone that is in the family as well (Carlile). The Center for Disease Control and Prevention specifically states this about children going through Post Traumatic Stress, “Children may need continued mental health support for months or longer following a major disaster” (Your Child is at Risk). In Andrea Carlile’s case, she took her family to counseling to find the problems and ultimately heal the wounds within. Andrea explains her and her husband’s battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and says, “We've had our fair share of pitfalls, rock bottoms, and victories. Throughout the battle, we learned to cope, find success, and keep our marriage strong” (Carlile). The divorce rate for many of these families is very high, so it was important for Andrea to find help for her and her family quickly. As of 2016, there was a thirty-eight percent divorce rate for married couples with one partner having Post Traumatic Stress (Eden). Andrea hopes for more successful stories like hers and for a better understanding for Post Traumatic Stress around the world. Overall, Post Traumatic Stress is a problem in society today, causing many people to lose their family, friends, and even their lives. As a society, we should learn to understand this illness more and not just overlook it as “something you can take medicine for.” In an article written about how we should use the term Post Traumatic Stress over loosely using the word PTSD they say, “The term "PTSD" must be reserved specifically for when these normal reactions tip over into an abnormal state characterized by dysfunction of some mental mechanism” (Joseph). As the United States of America we need to unite together to bring more awareness to this disorder and give these people struggling, as well as their families, a shoulder to lean on during these troubling times.

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Throughout the novel, Fahrenheit 451, one of Ray Bradbury’s characters, Guy Montag, sees and communicates with a young woman named Clarisse McClellan who also fights against Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. These two characters are introduced to each other in the beginning of the story when Guy is walking home and is met by Clarisse. Guy and Clarisse exchange their stories and get to know each other better as they keep consequently seeing each other. The reader also finds out that she may have a problem of her own when she explains that she goes to a psychiatrist and says, “He says I’m a regular onion” (Bradbury 20) and also says, “I keep him busy peeling away the layers” (Bradbury 20). It can be inferred that she is trying to say that she doesn’t want to tell the person trying to help her everything about her because it may bring back memories of a tragic experience. It could also be said that Clarisse may have seen or been apart of multiple life-altering experiences that could have caused her own battle with Post Traumatic Stress. When she is talking to Guy about her friends that have passed away due to different acts of violence she says, “Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone” (Bradbury 27) and also includes “ten of them died in car wrecks” (Bradbury 27). As the story progresses, and the characters continue to see each other, Guy seems to become more intrigued in Clarisse’s way of life and the innocence that she displays. Which eventually makes it even harder for Guy to handle when he finds out that she had passed away. Guy would go to the places where he saw Clarisse and where they shared memories, but he would no longer see her. Coincidently to the fact that her friends died in a car wreck, that’s what Guy finds out happened to Clarisse and the reason that he doesn’t see her around anymore. This could relate to Clarisse struggling from Post Traumatic Stress, because it could explain her talking about her friends being involved in an accident when possibility she could have been in it as well. Clarisse and Guy may have been able to see and talk to each other because they are both have the same illness and are trying to cope with it.

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In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury tells the story of Guy Montag and his experiences of what could be viewed as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This specific mental illness is caused by a event that cannot be unseen or thought about in the mind. With certain events happening in the book, Guy may be suffering from this because sometimes he see things that to other people in his society cannot see, and he seems to have flashbacks when talking about fire and books. This is very symbolistic in telling the personality of Guy, even one of the first statements in the book states, “It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed” (Bradbury 1). Not directly is the author saying that Guy has something wrong with him, but it can be inferred by the reader that something may have happened to him in his younger life that made him feel this way. The words that are used by the author in the sentence such as “eaten” and “changed” sort of gives a feeling that Guy has his opinion of how things should go and if it doesn’t it can very easily be modified. This is also building on to the theory of Guy’s illness because, when he and his fire department burned a home with a woman still inside it really took a toll on him and his emotions mentally. This woman wouldn’t let the firemen burn her books, that is illegal to have in their community, and they made her pay for it. It is known that this experience deeply sickened Guy when he said, “Well, this fire’ll last me the rest of my life” (Bradbury 48). Guy can be seen having some sort of connection to this specific fire and fires that his department go to in general. One of the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress, for example, is something simple and harmless happening in a person’s life that makes them think of the event that is causing their traumatic disorder. Fire may be a “trigger word” for Guy making him have these flashbacks and painful memories that make him lose his mind and not think straight.

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Mrs. Jenkins
English 10-8
9 May 2019

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This picture is describing some of the events that may lead to Post Traumatic Stress.

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This is a quote from a Mental Health website trying to get the point across that we need to change the way we as a society view these illnesses.

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This image shows everything that causes, results in, and the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress.

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This picture shows the current number of people in today's world struggling with Post Traumatic Stress.

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This image is just a statistic of how many Vietnam War veterans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress.

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Oliver Sacks: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds

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Oliver Sacks: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds

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Oliver Sacks describes one of his patients experiences with Charles Bonnet syndrome. This specific disease makes the mind go through vivid and lucid hallucinations. He tells the listener what is really going in the mind of the people going through theses symptoms.

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Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds

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Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

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Elyn Saks: A Tale of Mental Illness - From The Inside

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Elyn Saks: A Tale of Mental Illness - From The Inside

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Elyn Saks tells her story of Schizophrenia from her point of view. She explains to the reader how drugs and therapy effected her everyday life. Elyn also questions society, and how we personally treat people with mental illness.

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Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside

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"Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present.

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In the novel Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, the author, uses the experiences of Guy Montag to shed light upon mental health in today’s society. The author is trying to warn society that if they keep holding on to these fears and experiences it will erode their brains mentally, particularly with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and they will forget the values that come with living life to the fullest and without regrets.