When beginning my research on PTSD and also thinking about my own experiences, I realised I needed to focus my research and topic more. Due to the fact PTSD mainly occurs due to the way memories formulate themselves during traumatic events and experiences, I decided looking into how trauma affects your memories and then how PTSD presents those memories to you would be an interesting focusing point. This then opens up the topic into many different fields, including scientific, psychology, mental health, the media, but also looking into a more broader space of how different artists have tackled the idea and representation of memory and how do we record memories e.g. photographs and diaries.
I am also wanting to reach out to others who have experienced traumatic events, and see how their mind has processed their memory of the time and how they have dealt with it because we are all unique. However, due to the current social climate and context of Sarah Everards death in South London which has opened up the topic of how women lack a feeling of safety and opens up the conversation to unfortunate reality in how woman live in fear today, due to the nature of the crimes committed against woman. But also, due to the fact the way the mind processes traumatic events, that it is extremely normal for one to remember a whole traumatic experience, or none at all. And this is used against woman in courts and in the media to insinuate the belief that woman make up and falsely report men of rape. This is one of the reasons I believe it is important to explore this topic to help dissolve this misconception.