What Happened to the Survivors of the Titanic?
Of the 2228 passengers who boarded the RMS Titanic in Southampton on 10th April 1912, only 711 were rescued after the ship sank in the North Atlantic in the early hours of 15th April 1912. Millvina Dean is now the only surviving passenger from the Titanic. She was only ten weeks old in April 1912, and has no recollection of that fateful evening. But what do we know of the other survivors who escaped the sinking ship? In some transcripts it has been recorded that many of the survivors, understandably, closed ranks after the terrifying ordeal they went through. Many of the survivors who did talk about their trauma experienced ’survivor syndrome’. This is a psychological term used to describe a pattern of symptoms including anxiety and depression, social withdrawal, sleep disturbance and nightmares. It is a condition associated with survivors who feel guilty that they survived a trauma when others, such as friends and family, did not. Psychologists now class this syndrome as part of Post
Of the 2228 passengers who boarded the RMS Titanic in Southampton on 10th April 1912, only 711 were rescued after the ship sank in the North Atlantic in the early hours of 15th April 1912. Millvina Dean is now the only surviving passenger from the Titanic. She was only ten weeks old in April 1912, and has no recollection of that fateful evening. But what do we know of the other survivors who escaped the sinking ship? In some transcripts it has been recorded that many of the survivors, understandably, closed ranks after the terrifying ordeal they went through. Many of the survivors who did talk about their trauma experienced ‘survivor syndrome’. This is a psychological term used to describe a pattern of symptoms including anxiety and depression, social withdrawal, sleep disturbance and nightmares. It is a condition associated with survivors who feel guilty that they survived a trauma when others, such as friends and family, did not. Psychologists now class this syndrome as part of Post
