“70% of adults in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives… Up to 20% of these people go on to develop PTSD. As of today, that equates to approximately 44.7 million people who were or are struggling with PTSD” (PTSD Statistics, 2013). The problem is, individuals with PTSD are not being properly diagnosed or getting the treatment they need to overcome this disorder. In her article about this PTSD crisis, Lois Beckett states, “Few similar efforts exist for civilian trauma victims. Americans are not getting treatment for PTSD. They’re not even getting diagnosed” (Beckett, 2014). Those with PTSD need to first be officially diagnosed in order to get the help they need. There needs to be more awareness of
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The disorder is looked at as something that will just get better overtime, but the problem is, in order for anything to start getting better, there needs to be an official diagnosis along with the proper treatment and support. What people do not realize is that those with PTSD do not understand what happening with their minds and they need someone to help them learn how to deal with it. One solution to this problem would be to obtain more professionals to help diagnose and treat PTSD. Carol Reese, a violence prevention coordinator, says, “Right now, social workers try to identify patients with the most severe PTSD symptoms… I'm not going to tell you we have everything we need in place right now, because we don't… We have a chaplain and a social worker and a couple of social work interns trying to see 5,000 people. We're just not staffed to do it” (Beckett, 2014). There’s not enough people working with individuals suffering from PTSD. This means there’s just going to be more and more people with PTSD being left untreated and causing problems like harm and
The disorder is looked at as something that will just get better overtime, but the problem is, in order for anything to start getting better, there needs to be an official diagnosis along with the proper treatment and support. What people do not realize is that those with PTSD do not understand what happening with their minds and they need someone to help them learn how to deal with it. One solution to this problem would be to obtain more professionals to help diagnose and treat PTSD. Carol Reese, a violence prevention coordinator, says, “Right now, social workers try to identify patients with the most severe PTSD symptoms… I'm not going to tell you we have everything we need in place right now, because we don't… We have a chaplain and a social worker and a couple of social work interns trying to see 5,000 people. We're just not staffed to do it” (Beckett, 2014). There’s not enough people working with individuals suffering from PTSD. This means there’s just going to be more and more people with PTSD being left untreated and causing problems like harm and