In this movie, Jack Salmon as the father of a murdered young girl Susie Salmon will not let his daughter's unsolved murder go - he is obsessed with finding the killer. As an accountant with a passion for building model ships in glass bottles, Jack Salmon has been set up well as possessing underlying obsessive compulsive traits. Jack also suffers classic posttraumatic stress disorder (commonly referred to as PTSD), a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event which results in psychological trauma. Characteristic diagnostic symptoms of PTSD that Jack is portrayed to suffer include increased arousal, such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hypervigilance in particular. Hypervigilance is an enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect threats. Hypervigilance is also accompanied by a state of increased anxiety which can ca ... Read More
