 | Author's Name: Philip Cornish Date: Fri 23 May 2025 |
I met and worked with a lot of people with PTSD over the course of a long career. They would often volunteer they had great difficulties sleeping. Of course the hyper attention meant that people with trauma would self-medicate leading to other issues. The sleep of family members was often disturbed as well.
I remember well one instance of a former senior officer who had served at the siege of Tobruk who at night would relive the siege yelling out orders to respond to the imagined attack making it very difficult for his spouse.
This month of course is 80 years since the end of the war in Europe. The impact of war is carried in the waking and sleeping hours of those affected. But I am sure they would want us to enjoy the company with each other and for this and their service I give thanks.
Thank you Philip Cornish for the Reflection on Wednesday 21 May 25.
