Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Combat Stress Reaction (CSR) are two of the most prevalent issues facing today’s military; confronting these issues has become an exceedingly problematic undertaking for those with the authority to do so. The Pentagon has released several directives over PTSD which have overreaching consequences pertaining to CSR, however, there has been less concern in addressing CSR among top brass because it is considered temporary. Often called “shellshock” or Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS), CSR differs from its long-term counterpart essentially only through duration of symptoms for CSR to be considered PTSD, symptoms must last longer than thirty days. It must first be said before progressing further into the content
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After the identification of these “triggers”, be they a location such as a crowded public gathering or familiar action which can lead to flashbacks, the therapist will expose the patient to these stressful situations for prolonged periods of time to develop an “immunity” of sorts in handling previously challenging conditions.
• Cognitive Processing Therapy: A mental exercise in which the patient examines his or her thoughts before and after the traumatic event. Feelings with negative consequences are easily formed in the aftermath of trauma. If identified, patients can have an easier time breaking down that thought and replacing it with another.
• Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: Medications such as Zoloft and Paxil work through increasing the effectiveness of the neurotransmitter named serotonin. Serotonin is strongly linked with anxiety, one of the most prevalent symptoms associated with …show more content…
Generals in the First World War would order officers to execute deserters on spot (Unknown Author), rather than work with the men to improve their circumstances or reassign them for a form of convalescence. Men such as General Haig, known affectionately at “Butcher Haig” not only got away with his policies of execution pointed toward his own men, but were awarded handsomely for their “service to country” with titles and lordships – proving that such policies were, at the time, accepted and condoned by (UK) government
After the identification of these “triggers”, be they a location such as a crowded public gathering or familiar action which can lead to flashbacks, the therapist will expose the patient to these stressful situations for prolonged periods of time to develop an “immunity” of sorts in handling previously challenging conditions.
• Cognitive Processing Therapy: A mental exercise in which the patient examines his or her thoughts before and after the traumatic event. Feelings with negative consequences are easily formed in the aftermath of trauma. If identified, patients can have an easier time breaking down that thought and replacing it with another.
• Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: Medications such as Zoloft and Paxil work through increasing the effectiveness of the neurotransmitter named serotonin. Serotonin is strongly linked with anxiety, one of the most prevalent symptoms associated with …show more content…
Generals in the First World War would order officers to execute deserters on spot (Unknown Author), rather than work with the men to improve their circumstances or reassign them for a form of convalescence. Men such as General Haig, known affectionately at “Butcher Haig” not only got away with his policies of execution pointed toward his own men, but were awarded handsomely for their “service to country” with titles and lordships – proving that such policies were, at the time, accepted and condoned by (UK) government