20% Time Project: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Hello! This is a blog dedicated to spread awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder, or also know as PTSD. I will be doing research on this disorder and hopefully interviewing some of the patients. In the end, I will create a guideline that includes some effective treatments and ways to help people identify the symptoms of PTSD.  My goal for this project is to educate students about the severity of the disorder by teaching them about the effects that it has on the patients’ lives. I also want to raise awareness about some of these psychological disorders that usually don’t receive much attention from the public.

My inspiration for this blog came from this project called 20% time. This is an amazing project that allows students to study different topics or do experiments on subjects that they are passionate about. Personally, I love studying psychology-related topics! When I was researching on different topics, I found out how trauma survivors, especially veterans, are very likely to suffer from symptoms of PTSD. I also discovered that people tend to classify these types of disorder as mild, insignificant conditions that don’t have much impact on a person’s life. Therefore, I’ve decided to use this 20% time project as a chance to inform the public about this disorder and encourage them to interact and help these PTSD patients.

My essential question for this project is “What are some of the effective ways to help people who struggle with PTSD?” To answer this question, I will be studying all the symptoms of the disorder and reading some of the patient’ feelings as they try to cope with the hardships. I will measure my progress by recording at least three important findings and two helpful treatments every week. Eventually, I will be create a visual plan, which is like a brochure, that fully explains the disorder and treatments.

By publishing this post, I am officially starting my research and study. My next step is to collect detailed information on my topic. This is it for today, thanks for reading!