What's+bothering+Holden?

**​Holdens psychological aspects:**
[|Holden] has many reasons for the madman days that he went through around Christmas time. He can be seen as being under the influence of post-traumatic-stress-disorder, depression, five stages of grieving and loss and the impact of death on a family. The way that Holden approaches situations and his perspective on much of these things show a lot of where he has been. He's very critical of others which makes me believe that he is quick to judge others and himself. With this, he doesn't believe in himself either because of the fact that he already has himself summed up. He usually contradicts himself which shows that he is very indecisive of much of the problems that are going on in his life.

Depression:
The reasons for thinking Holden might have been depressed are because of the loss of the family member. He says that he lost his brother Allie to leukemia. Throughout the story Holden continuously says that he is depressed, " Click[| here] to look at the symptoms of depression.

Post Traumatic Stress:
Holden expierences post traumatic stress because of his obvious "traumatic" past and childhood. His brother Allie, witch he admitts is very smart and close to, pasted away due to leukeimia. Allies innoccence was shunned from this awful disease and Holdens top priority in his life seemed to be protecting and becoming defensive over his own and others innocence. To learn more about PTSD symptoms and treatments clcik [|here]. To learn more about the actual emtional turmoil involving PTSD click [].

Impact of Death on a Family:
Allie was the younger brother of Holden Caulfield who died from lukemia. Holden trys to compensate for the absence of his little brother, trying to fill the void with basically anything readily available. Holden shows signs of depression and it can be lead back to the death of Allie. Depression can affect different people in different ways. In Holdens case, he tries to supress his feelings with women and alcohol, which is not uncommon. Holden is very sensitive about his family, and talks about them lovingly (especially his siblings). he tends to not be so spontaneous after thinking about his little bro and little sister. For instance when he hires the prostitute, he decided not to do anything irresponsible because the girl being so young made him think of Allie.