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Dear Diary Today I read the poem disabled by Wilfred Owen and it caused me to envision the horrors grandfather must have endured when he took service in the war As the poem expressed the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenaged soldier it was hard to get through even half of the poem as the vivid imagery was too gruesome and hard to bare The soldier Owen had written about had lost his limbs in battle and was confined utterly helpless to a wheelchair In reflecting upon grandfathers experiences I remember him telling me how he suffered through post traumatic stress disorder PTSD for many years He complained about limited treatment opportunities for veterinarians diagnosed with PTSD then for example during the time Owen wrote the poem comparative to now I started to analyse the poem further in collecting evidence to conclude treatment opportunities have improved but to an extent In the first stanza of disabled Owen depicts the young soldier in a dark isolated state as he sits in his wheelchair At this moment the reader learns the soldier has lost his legs in battle Owen uses repetition of words such as waiting and sleep to reinforce the sense that this soldier's life is interminable to him now There is evidence right at the beginning of the poem that post traumatic stress haunts the soldier as he is a fragment of the man he was losing a part of himself which he would never get back 

A common diagnosis in soldiers particularly in the deployment of my grandfather s troops in the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans In 60 000 13 of deployed and non deployed veterans screened positive for PTSG while others showed high rates to be as high as 20 and 30 However a reasoning treatment options were so limited was due to the diagnosis of PTSD not being adopted until the late 1970s far beyond the time World War 1 occurred and that of the deployment of my grandfather With a lot of soldiers surviving with significant injuries who would not necessarily have survived before it make treatment even more difficult as they now return home with physical and physiological trauma In the second stanza of disabled the solider reminisces about the old days before the war As he conjures up sights and sounds of lamps and dancing girls as he sadly remembers he now is referred to as a queer disease causing the soldier to feel emasculated ignored almost betrayed by women As many treatment options for PTSD were underdeveloped it was believed that the weaker were predisposed to the conditions Comparative to now it is a diagnosis that could impact anyone and not dependent on the strength of a person With therapy offered to veterans and counselling it is a step forward in relieving pain caused by war In the third stanza of disabled