Pangarap: A short feature on how a boy resolves his guilt of killing his younger brother

• Main Authors: Bonus, Jazmine Christelle V., Resurreccion, Karl Angelo C., Sosmena, John Mark M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Short films; Post-traumatic stress disorder in children; Anxiety in children; Communication
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11488
• Institution: De La Salle University

The film tackled what comes after death in a family's setting and how a child may react after a tragedy, it not treated or handled correctly. Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, is an anxiety disorder often acquired after witnessing or experiencing a traumatic incident or a life-threatening situation. Some common symptoms experienced by a person with PTSD include flashback and nightmares of the incident, according to Cleveland Clinic. Also, having PTSD often leads to depression, which leads to suicidal thoughts and tendencies. Despite having one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, cases in the Philippines are increasing over the last 23 years, involving young adults aged 24 and below. This also became one of the leading causes of death in the age group of 15 to 39 years, and the major cause of these suicides is untreated depression. (Kevin Caruso. Suicide Causes.Jocelyn R. Uy. Suicides up in the last 20 years in PH, mostly among youth.