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Fictional Characters With Ptsd - Movies/film, Tv And Literature.

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There are some characters in Deepa Mehta's movies who would qualify. She's a Canadian-Indian (from India) film maker who produced the Elements Trilogy: Earth, Water, and Fire, and some others including one called Heaven on Earth. Earth is about the division of India and Pakistan as seen through the eyes of a child who witnesses the atrocities going on around her and is tricked into betraying her nanny. Water is about a child bride who is widowed and left in an ashram and befriended by a young woman who has been forced into prostitution. Heaven on Earth is about domestic violence and how it is passed down the generations. The descriptions sound grim, and bits of the films are, but they are all sensitively done and beautifully directed.
 
Also, there are bits of the series Foyle's War that deal with characters with PTSD, or shell shock as it was called at the time. Foyle's son, for one, goes through an episode where he becomes hysterical about going back to his RAF stint.

And there is an episode of Call the Midwife that deals with a shell-shocked ex soldier. It's the one where it's just before Christmas and everyone is being put up in the church hall while an unexploded bomb left from the war is being deactivated on a nearby street.
 
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Major grief trauma
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Whilst I certainly agree on the trauma aspect of it, it seems like he healthily deals with it by the end of the film. I personally see it that he works through the stages of grief, aided by the storyline - which is a great thing to give to kids to help them when that arises for them. I don't see it as dysfunctional or even like the disorder "traumatic grief" - other than the fact that grief in itself is traumatic. Though I did step out of the film (immediately after the explosion) to get a bottle of water for my sister and have missed the duration of time that occurred after the explosion and before the factory scene.
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Showing how the true resolution is having real support and acceptance so you can understand and love yourself
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It was such a great film, really. *^_^*
 
A few more:
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin. A novel set in Rwanda in the early 2000s. After the massacre was over, the lives of survivors went on, but the effects were everywhere. A poignant mixture of kindness and tragedy.

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The life of a young Nigerian girl who is being horribly abused by her outwardly exemplary father. Only a little of the book deals with the aftermath, but the portrayal of the family dynamics is stunning.

I seem to be into novels set in Africa these days.
 
Well, I watched 'The Moment' (2013) last night starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. It didn't specifically mention PTSD, but it was a thriller, and she was a war photographer, so this might be valid.
 
Father Emilio Sandez in the novel (first of a trilogy) The Sparrow.

Everyone on Blue Bloods SHOULD have PTSD, but inexplicably don't. The Iraq vet son is just kind of neurotic, doesn't actually have PTSD that one can tell.
 
Kieran and Jem Walker as well as Simon Monroe from In the Flesh, if they've not already been mentioned. I feel that Kieran and Simon's PTSD to some aspect could also be due to psychiatric abuse even though it isn't the primary cause.
 
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