Trauma and Emotional Relearning When a tragedy happens the amount of physical and emotional trauma it can put on someone can vary. Some people can walk away from something like it never effected them, however; others may not be able to let it go and it can led to long term psychological problems if not treated. We live in a world where things we never imagined would happen, happens. Therefore; it is important to know the recovery process and how to handle the trauma and emotional relearning. No one imagined the nightmare that would take place on February 17, 1989 at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California. A man named Patrick Purdy played on that same playground twenty years before the nightmare occurred. Patrick Purdy was the man who stood at the edge of the playground on February 17, 1989 and fired bullets at the children playing. He did this for about seven minutes until he took his own life with a pistol. Not only did he take his own life but he also killed 5 children and twenty-nine were wounded. The students and staff who attended Cleveland Elementary witnessed such trauma that would forever haunt them. Moving on with their lives was a constant struggle and they lived in constant fear every time they walked through those doors. That same type of fear lives within a forty-eight year old man who fought in the Vietnam War who would jump at the clap of thunder as well as many Holocaust victims. The constant fear and the little memories that trigger the big bad ones all led to a disorder called post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. PTSD symptoms include; anxiety, fear, hypervigilance, being easily upset or aroused, readiness for flight or fight, and the endurance of the intense memories. “The symptoms being experienced are, in effect, signs of an over aroused amygdala impelling vivid memories of a traumatic moment to continue to intrude on