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Active Military/ Veteran Suicide Introduction Service members put their lives on the line daily for us. Stationed overseas they endure strenuous situations, most life changing. Our Soldiers deal with life altering situations and are faced with difficult decisions every day. For some the battle doesn’t always start on the battlefield. For them it can start before being stationed out or deployed. Studies find it may be due to transitions rather than the strain of combat. The United States…

Results The dependent variable in this is whether or not the veterans suffer from depression. It is the dependent variable because in this case, depression is dependent on the number of years has served in the military or if they have served at all. The independent variable is the variable that is not dependent on another. In this case, having depression is not a determining factor for serving in the military. The variable name for depression is ‘DEPRESS’ and the variable name for the number of…

Discussion Providing exceptional care to U.S. veterans ought to be a priority for our nation and its health care providers. The VHA is approaching the 50-year mark of utilizing the nurse practitioner as a vital provider of primary care. With an increasing number of veterans, at home and abroad, now is the time to set up a universal scope of practice for providers throughout the system. It does not go unnoticed how difficult the creation of a national standard will be. While the VHA is a federal…

Emotional Trauma is Psychological, or emotional trauma, is damage or injury to the psyche after living through an extremely frightening or distressing event and may result in challenges in functioning or coping normally after the event. Its can happen to anyone of any sort. I believe that the up most first people all over the world that would come to mind who suffer from this trauma are military personnel. I say this because we have an active force of over 1,500,000 infantry wise. They…

Veterans have successfully led our country to where it stands today. Veterans are people who have served in the military. They stood up for our country to help get many things we have today such as freedom. They helped defend the United States’ independence in many wars against powerful nations overseas. Although there are many things that are important to a nation, its veterans are important to its history and future because they defended our country and developed a path that impacts the future…

War is a critical engagement that does not end with the stop of guns t the battle field. More than 17,530 US troops in 2009 were hospitalized for mental disorders. Traumatic brain injury is the most prominent injury that occurs in war with more than 50% of all combat related casualties a result of brain injury. With the advances in treatment and evacuation, however, more wounded soldiers are surviving than they did just a few years ago. However, hundreds of thousands are coming home and…

“How could you tell your girlfriend what it was like for you to shoot another human being? How could you tell her how vulnerable and scared you felt, never knowing if you would live another hour…”1. These are the types of questions and horrors that keep veterans with PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) from returning to their normal lives before the war. PTSD is not only a disease that keeps people awake at night with nightmares; it is a disease that creeps into every aspect of their lives…

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…

It is easy to find out who won a war, and it is easy to find statistics on casualties and fatalities. What is less accessible however, is the intangible component that is mental survival. We know that many of those who survive wars develop some level or form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but we pay less attention to the mental state that exists for these soldiers during the war. During the most widespread war in history, WWII, countless individuals abandoned their lives of normality…

Tom Leyton, a Vietnam veteran, was once "so full of hope"- but the war changed him. Experiencing a terrible mental illness, he trapped himself in his own world for decades. Gun shots all around you. Soldiers falling one by one. An agonising image no one can get rid of. As Australian soldiers return home nothing would seem the same to them. Brave men and women who served the country have to continue with a personal battle, a battle with the world of chaos known as post-traumatic stress disorder…