Essay on Stress Management

disorder called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Rosenthal). People today hear a great deal about it in the news with war veterans, although, this disorder does not affect war veterans alone. For instance, if one has been exposed to any kind of tragic event, he/she is at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, unfortunately, is the inevitable result from experiencing traumas ranging from war violence to car crashes. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a…

McFarland & Weisaeth, 2007). The reactions of the individual immediately after a trauma can be debilitating and beyond frightening but the human mind and body are well equipped to cope with the symptoms that result from trauma (Freidman, 2015). The stress reactions experienced…

our life for a short period of time. However, in some cases people experience chronic trauma that continues or repeats for months or even years at a time. Since C-PTSD or Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is not an official diagnosis, rather an additional sub-diagnosis for PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. C-PTSD has damaging effects on several individuals which is growing each and every day when there are treatment options available to better each person affected. Complex PTSD has…

questionnaires that can narrow down the extent of the PTSD. The second step would be to get diagnosed with the ailment by a doctor or psychiatrist to see how frequent and severe the traumatic episodes are. Once a patient has been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder they can move on to the actual treatment of their episodes. “Furthermore, across several controlled clinical trials, both pharmacological and psychological interventions have been shown to significantly reduce PTSD…

In another experiment they described women in ways that made them feel irritated to test their stress level. I think that this experiment even though it showed the temporary inflammation and activity in their amygdala was a complete joke, If you are going to openly describe women as “annoying” and “arrogant” to their faces they obviously will show signs of stress. If you prove that almost anyone can have inflammation in their blood serum why do only some people get PTSD? If 500…

When people think of post-traumatic stress disorder most of the time one thinks of the soldiers coming home from war. That is not the only people who develop it. Children can develop it from many experiences. One of these experiences is being sexually abused. The after affects of survivors of childhood sexual abuse are problems that can affect the growing child long after the abuse stops. The affects can range from physical problems to emotional problems. Each survivor is affected differently it…

Stress, one of the most common occurrences in an individual’s life. A definition used to describe stress is “a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances” (Oxford Dictionary, 2017). In the field of law enforcement, police officers undergo adverse and demanding circumstances each day. They are exposed to incidences that other individuals do not see on a daily basis. Police officers have many roles within their duties varying from enforcing the…

effects of wartime deployments go past the average daily difficulties experienced in family life. The deployment affects the family, spouse, children and the military member. These deployments have caused psychological, financial, and other undue stress on the spouses and children of deployed service members.…

communicating with those around you, being on edge due to the “stressors” of life, one’s way of thinking to be molded based on the experience, or even physical damage to one’s body. Bassett, Deborah, Dedra Buchwald, Spero Manson. “Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Symptoms among American Indians and Alaskan Natives: A Review of the Literature.” Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology. Vol. 49 Issue 3 (2014): p 417-433. Print. This article goes into findings about resources for clinicians…

Introduction Every year, thousands of people experience a sports injury, which has an effect on a social, economic, and personal level (Hutchison, 2017a). Sport injury incidence rates can vary from 23.7/1000 hours of game exposure for male floorball players (Snellman et al., 2001), or 7.7/1000 hours of exposure for male soccer players and 5.5/1000 hours of exposure for female soccer players (Hãgglund, Walden, & Ekstrand, 2009) or 1.05/1000 hours for female gymnasts (Hootman, Dick, & Agel,…