Post traumatic stress disorder: Why it may be on the increase
Everyone will at some point in a life time have life threatening deeply hurtful and upsetting experiences. Some people recover in a few days but some don’t. Vera Onana writes about this disorder and how it can be handled. For Temilayo Omooba, a young academic, sleep has eluded him in the last three months and the night time has become his undoing. Before any of the nightmares and insomnia, Temilayo had a very healthy sleep routine, but all changed after he was attacked by a six-man gang of armed robbers. He tried escaping by the whiskers, but was severely beaten. He had almost lost hearing ability in his left ear due to the innumerable stinging slaps the gun men had inflicted on him. Though all the locks had been changed, Temilayo could barely shut his eyes for an hour straight before screaming out loud. Temilayo, like several other Nigerians suffer such fate. In most cases, it is erroneously referred to as spiritual attack and in some other cases, people close to them,...