Post Traumatic Stress Disorder In Military Veterans

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can effect anyone, even children. There is a great deal of factors that can come into play when attracting PTSD. It can occur from any traumatic incident in one’s life, whether you were the victim or an innocent by standard. A few being combat, sexual assault, or just seeing something gory. Military veterans are among the many who suffer from PTSD (Post-traumatic, 2014). The men and women of the armed forces never know when the day will come when they will need to put their lives on the line. When they will have to make the decision to either take a bullet for a fellow troop or sit there and watch while they die alongside them. War can be very gruesome and exhausting to endure. A great deal of the U.S. population take the ones keeping them safe for granted. They don’t truly realize what is actually put on the line for their very existence. …show more content…
One case has been diagnosed at the Dover, AFB Mortuary. The individual diagnosed has seen it all. From burn victims to pure body parts. The symptoms started as sleepless nights and then grew to hallucinations. Having to inspect dead bodies, the bodies of fellow soldiers wearing the same uniform as you, and go through personal things would rattle anyone from the inside out (Collins, E. M. n.d.). Other non-combat related PTSD cases come from sexual assault while in the military. The Department of Veterans affairs calls this Military Sexual Trauma or MST (PTSD: National, 2 Sep 2015). 23% of women reported being sexually assaulted while serving (PTSD: National, Aug