Victoria Mestre Ms. Kiefer All Quiet On The Western Front: PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD takes over the lives’ of people everyday. PTSD is a debilitating anxiety disorder that is often found in individuals whom have experienced traumatic or traumatizing events. PTSD is common in individuals whom have served in the military and have witnessed traumatic events, therefore, making it next to impossible to live their everyday lives. http://www.bing.com/search?q=ptsd&src=IE-TopResult&FORM=IETR02&conversationid=…
The topics that will be focused on in this paper are the history of PTSD will be discussed briefly in this paper to give background…
PTSD is a condition that is caused by traumatic events and affects 5.2 million people in the United States during the course of a given year("What Is PTSD?"). In some extreme cases PTSD can prevent people from having a normal life or can even be life threatening. PTSD is a condition that has many terrible symptoms, gives modern therapists many problems, and has plagued soldiers for many years. There are three different types of symptoms one can experience when having PTSD. The first type of symptom is reliving the traumatic event that caused the PTSD.…
osttraumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD or Posttraumatic syndrome, is a disease that affects individuals who have been exposed to different types of trauma, and more specifically, soldiers and veterans who have been exposed to war. According to the Wounded Warrior Project, “as of September 1, 2015, 400,000 military personnel are dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder, and unfortunately, more women will be exposed than men”, (woundedwarriorproject.org). Many of today’s veterans and current soldiers experience the disorder. “ About 52% of American soldiers from the war in Vietnam, Desert Storm, and the war in Afghanistan”, (National Institutes of Health Plus magazine), combined, suffer from PTSD. Symptoms of PTSD include, flash…
Violet acts are more likely to cause bigger and more noticeable affects of PTSD due to the personal fear it brings to the victim. The victim feels they have been intentionally targeted. This brings on a whole new level of worry. Natural disasters such as Earthquakes maybe seen as an unfortunate occurrence which the person was in the wrong place at the wrong time, we all know natural disasters happen and still go about our lives everyday. If the act is a violent one towards the victim such as a mugging or sexual assault this stamps more deep routed feelings and memories of the incident.…
The survival mechanism comes from the flashbacks of the event and can leave someone with PTSD “on edge”. Adrenaline levels can rise and trigger the “fight or flight” instinct humans have when faced with danger. Lastly, the hippocampus, the part of the brain that controls emotions, is smaller in those with PTSD. It’s said that this is the cause of anxiety since flashbacks and nightmares are not processed properly. Those with PTSD have many things going on mentally and that alone can affect them physically and even more so mentally.…
PTSD is a traumatic event that involves actual or threatened death, serious injury or other threat to the integrity of the person or others. PTSD involves intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Despite being an infrequent event, exposure to violence and trauma serve as potentially debilitating stressors for law enforcement personnel (Lanterman et al. 2010). Police Officers have the potential of exposure to numerous traumatic events such as the death of a young child, armed robbery, as well as, shooting someone in the line of duty. When I began my research I was focused on these moments and how some my experience PTSD and related symptoms and others do not.…
PTSD is one of the most horrific disorders known to man. PTSD is a mental disorder that affects people that have been through a traumatic experience in their lives. It is very common with veterans. Around 30% of all veterans that have been exposed to combat will suffer from PTSD. Since the government is so willing to send soldiers to war, they should also be willing to take care of the ones that get PTSD.…
PTSD isn’t something that can simply be prevented because it can happen in so many ways and at unexpected times, but getting proper help is something every victim has an opportunity for. A good way to help those affected is to simply raise awareness about PTSD. This can help people self-diagnose themselves to seek extra help for their own benefit, but can also help the families of victims notice signs to get proper help before it’s too late. Raising awareness can help victims figure if they might need medication, therapeutic help, or other methods that help victims cope with their mental health disorder. Another method is to help the victim find their old self.…
One of the conclusions reached by the authors was the harshness of the PTSD indicators was connected with how many bad events the participant went through in the past. Another conclusion they reached was sexual abuse when the participant was young had the most common link to PTSD indicators, being followed or threatened had a bigger connection with the worst of the indicators, and the most common event was the surprising loss of someone the person deeply cared for. The ethnic background of each participant did not matter when it came to each gender; the men were more likely to have dealt with certain past traumas while the women were more to have dealt with other certain traumatic events.…
PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is an anxiety disorder triggered by the experience of a life-threatening traumatic event. This disorder is a mental illness, and traumatic memories often scar victims of this disease. To be diagnosed with PTSD, a victim must have been “in a situation [of high] risk for death, serious injury, or sexual violation” (WebMD). Studies show that PTSD is related to changes in brain function. Individuals with pre-existing abnormal brain functions may have a higher chance of having PTSD after experiencing a traumatic event.…
After hearing the sound of fireworks, the barking of a dog, or even just the sight of a weapon, something in a persons mind with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will trigger. Horror will constantly torment the mind, no matter what or where the person is. This is part of what people diagnosed with PTSD go through on a daily basis. Unfortunately, little is known about why the human body induces this mental disorder, or why it takes so long to recover from. However, based off recent research, much has been discovered about the fundamentals of the mental illness.…
I actually really like how you came up with the idea of using PTSD as a research question. I think it is original and you can relate to the topic so that is beneficial. You could ask the question. "How does PTSD affect the mind and body" Then you could go into paragraphs discussing not only the physical impact it has on the person but the emotional impact it has on the person as well. Good luck on your research.…
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (referred as PTSD, ICD-10), also known as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(DSM-5) or post-traumatic stress reaction, is widely found as symptoms in military soldiers and veterans who have war experience. In recent years, it has been found in not only veterans but also many victims survived the natural disaster and physical assault. However, victims of personal assault have not realized the crucial side effect of PTSD and thereby ignoring the importance in medical and mental treatment. People should consider PTSD a mental problem as severe as other physiological disease and intervene by early treatment. By definition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, PTSD is an anxiety disorder, which…
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a condition that often occurs after a person experiences a traumatic life event. One of the more common causes of PTSD is the experience of active combat during a time of war. There is wide a range of common symptoms associated with PTSD, including nightmares, flashbacks, depression, sleep disturbances, and a “fight or flight” response in certain situations. The symptoms of PTSD can be divided into four broad categories: reliving, avoidance, negative beliefs, and hyper-arousal (U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs). In Bao Ninh’s novel, The Sorrow of War, the protagonist, Kien, shows signs of PTSD symptoms throughout the novel that match each of these four categories.…