Diagnosis

Diagnosis · //__**Post Traumatic Stress Disorder**__// is an anxiety disorder that occurs after one has seen or experienced a traumatic event. Caulfield has been diagnosed with it due to the two traumatic events that have occurred in his life. He experienced the loss of a loved one a young age: his younger brother Allie. The other tragic event is the suicide of James Castle, which Caulfield witnessed. Symptoms of PTSD include difficulty with sleeping, flashbacks to the experience, and sense of having no future. Holden has didn't sleep much at all during his "adventure," he would just say that he wasn't tired ans would go out to bars and clubs.( 66 80) Also during Caulfield's adventure had thought about Allie and James Castle. He has hallucinations of Allie while walking in New York and remembers the suicide incident when speaking to Phoebe. Caulfield doesn't have a clear future as well. He always decides to leave New York but never follows through with it. When asked what he wants to be by Phoebe. He has no definite answer, he says that he wants to be the catcher in the rye. This is not a recall occupation. Caulfield doesn't want to go to school or grow up, so his future is exceedingly uncertain. Another sign of PTSD shown by Caulfield, is his lack to apply himself in school. This can be concluded that he wants nothing to do with it, because school is where he witnessed a suicide. · //__**Schizophrenia**__// is a mental disorder that makes if difficult to indicate between real and unreal expieriences, to think in a logical matter, behave casually in social situations, and to respond normally. the symptoms include: delusions, hallucinations, child like behavior, ansd social withdrawal. Holden shows these all these symptoms during his "adventure," He imagines being shot twice, once while being drunk, and the other time, after being punched in the stomach by Maurice. he also is convinced that he has cancer at one point, just because he has some of symptoms a magazine informs him about. He has hallucinations of Allie while crossing the street and starts talking to him as well as thanking him. Holden is known for being childish and horsing around, especially at school (21 30). Caulfield isolates himself from the world because he doesn't want to be a part of it. This is due to the fact that he believes everyone he knows to be phonies.