Case Study: Pat Salatano (Bradley Cooper)
Introduction: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a very common disorder that according to Adaa.org affects over seven point seven million adults over the age of eighteen in the United States alone. The disorder was first mentioned in the year 1952 in the DSM-I but was first referred to as “Gross Stress Reaction”. It was not featured in the second edition of the DSM, published in 1968 however. The disorder was next mentioned in the DSM-III in the early 1980’s according to Brainline.org. Also according to Brain line the disease was first thought to be due to over exposure to incoming artillery. It was later discovered that the disorder in fact came from the stresses in general that young soldiers were being exposed to on an almost regular basis.
PTSD can be manifested in many different ways that can include flashbacks to the original event where the trauma was first experienced. During these flashbacks a person can look confused or appear to be disoriented but can also be reacting as if they …show more content…
Any human being at any moment can experience an event that is perceived to be traumatic or even life threatening in nature. With the population at over 6 billion people currently it is very easy to think that at any moment something could happen to bring about trauma. The fact is Human beings seem to be gravitating more and more towards violence in general and the effects are seen more and more. When one looks at the differences in war civilian casualties have always been extremely high, but in modern day there seems to be more violence perpetuated in the media and more graphically to regular civilians who sometimes decide to participate in spreading of violence on their own. As the population continues to grow and grow human beings continually add new experiences to their bank of memories and it seems as though panic and fear only become more widespread with time and
Introduction: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a very common disorder that according to Adaa.org affects over seven point seven million adults over the age of eighteen in the United States alone. The disorder was first mentioned in the year 1952 in the DSM-I but was first referred to as “Gross Stress Reaction”. It was not featured in the second edition of the DSM, published in 1968 however. The disorder was next mentioned in the DSM-III in the early 1980’s according to Brainline.org. Also according to Brain line the disease was first thought to be due to over exposure to incoming artillery. It was later discovered that the disorder in fact came from the stresses in general that young soldiers were being exposed to on an almost regular basis.
PTSD can be manifested in many different ways that can include flashbacks to the original event where the trauma was first experienced. During these flashbacks a person can look confused or appear to be disoriented but can also be reacting as if they …show more content…
Any human being at any moment can experience an event that is perceived to be traumatic or even life threatening in nature. With the population at over 6 billion people currently it is very easy to think that at any moment something could happen to bring about trauma. The fact is Human beings seem to be gravitating more and more towards violence in general and the effects are seen more and more. When one looks at the differences in war civilian casualties have always been extremely high, but in modern day there seems to be more violence perpetuated in the media and more graphically to regular civilians who sometimes decide to participate in spreading of violence on their own. As the population continues to grow and grow human beings continually add new experiences to their bank of memories and it seems as though panic and fear only become more widespread with time and