The modern day term PTSD was originally used to describe a soldier who was adversely affected by war. Over the course of time and studies, researchers found that the Holocaust, natural disasters, and man-made disasters could also be lead to PTSD symptoms. PTSD has evolved into a more common diagnosis but still each person evaluated must meet the criteria needed to classify their illness as PTSD but there is a very thin line between PTSD and moral injury.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a mental disorder in which the person gets into traumatic event, and later afterwards can get triggered to look back on and remember that event. In the war soldiers who came back, had the possibility of having PTSD. War is hard, and it takes a lot of a person …show more content…
My dad’s coworker was on a hunting trip and he brought his 12 year old son out. There were other hunters out in the same woods. They were trying to “push” the deer to one area. The men were all lined up; about 20 of them. They all shot at once. Those hunters did not realize that the father and son were in the same direction as they shot. A bullet hit the father's jaw and shattered it, chipped his spine, and centimeters away from death. His 12 year old son had to witness his father getting shot in the jaw. He cried for help and the father was flown to the hospital. The bullet was removed and now he has to get a metal plate put into his jaw. The mother said that her son was taking everything very well. This boy could be an example of someone who could develop PTSD because of a traumatic event. In contrast with PTSD, there is moral injury. Moral injury is personal and
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a mental disorder in which the person gets into traumatic event, and later afterwards can get triggered to look back on and remember that event. In the war soldiers who came back, had the possibility of having PTSD. War is hard, and it takes a lot of a person …show more content…
My dad’s coworker was on a hunting trip and he brought his 12 year old son out. There were other hunters out in the same woods. They were trying to “push” the deer to one area. The men were all lined up; about 20 of them. They all shot at once. Those hunters did not realize that the father and son were in the same direction as they shot. A bullet hit the father's jaw and shattered it, chipped his spine, and centimeters away from death. His 12 year old son had to witness his father getting shot in the jaw. He cried for help and the father was flown to the hospital. The bullet was removed and now he has to get a metal plate put into his jaw. The mother said that her son was taking everything very well. This boy could be an example of someone who could develop PTSD because of a traumatic event. In contrast with PTSD, there is moral injury. Moral injury is personal and