4. Abnormal behavior appeared on my wife due to PTSD
On the morning of the 19th, the strange behavior appeared on my wife. When I woke up in the morning, my daughter asked me to look into the bathing room. When I entered the bathroom, I found that the clothes she had brought from Soma-shi were soaked in the hot water of the bathtub.
When I saw my wife next to me, she herself was soaking wet in her underwear. She said excitedly: "The clothes we brought back from Fukushima are contaminated with radioactivity, so I have to wash them to clean them."
On the night of the 19th, my wife hardly slept, and when she heard the siren of an ambulance or a police car, she jumped up and tried to pack her things. And when she saw the red tail light of a car, she said: “A police car is coming. A nuclear power plant exploded. We have to evacuate.” With such a saying she did a strange behavior like jumping up and down.
When I noticed my wife's unusualness, I consulted with the Welfare Division in the
city of Rittou-machi ("Rittou-machi"), and was referred to the Shiga-ken Psychiatric Medical Center, so she met a doctor. When my wife was in Souma-shi, she went to the hospital for her mild depression, and her condition got better before the nuclear accident.
The doctor who examined my wife told her: "You were basically depressed, but now your state has changed into another state (manic state). The most important concern is that if you return from a Manic state to Depression, you will be at risk of Impulsive
suicide. That's why you need to go to the hospital immediately."
My wife was diagnosed with PTSD caused by anxiety about the nuclear plant accident and radiation damage. And she was hospitalized for a year, and was discharged in April of 2012. The medical expenses were more than 660,000 yen, but because it was not free and we had to pay for it ourselves. We asked the hospital for my payment by long-term division.
My wife continues to visit the hospital after discharge from the hospital. But because she suffers from PTSD caused by the nuclear accident, her doctor told her: "Although you may be temporarily allowed to return to Fukushima, you are not allowed to live there."