Ballistic trauma

Losing a loved one can cause you to lose your humanity. When a mother loses her son, it is especially difficult to be able to cope with the grief due to the intimate bond the two share. A mother carries her child in her stomach for an agonizing nine months but she suffers through it and the miracle of childbirth for the unconditional love she has developed for him.Once he is born the child is completely dependent on his mother for survival, she is the only one that can give him the ample amount…

unfortunately experience some kind of trauma while attending school. One of the most prevalent experiences of trauma among students is sexual harassment that occurs at school. The National Traumatic Child Stress Network (NCTSN) defines sexual harassment as sexual abuse not involving contact which includes acts such as “genital exposure (‘flashing’), verbal pressure for sex, and sexual exploitation for purposes of prostitution or pornography.” Due to the nature of this kind of trauma, schools…

also watched some of his fellow troops die. He had guilt that he could not save them. When he got home, his mind was still at war. He would hear gunshots and in deep thought of what he went through in war. Someone with PTSD will always think about a trauma they went though, at times they could feel guilty as Chris Kyle did when he could not save some of his fellow troops. It is safe to say, that the more tours Chris Kyle made to Iraq, the worse his PTSD got, he became most distant from his…

One of the biggest things to worry about when a solider comes home from war is the symptoms or challenges they maybe face while being home. They might experience things similar to what happen back in the war and might lash out or go into a depression, this stage maybe be due to a disorder they might bring back from when they were in the war and this it is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD for short. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that 's triggered…

Ibrahim has endured a traumatic experience and emotional effects that have impacted his emotional regulation. Based off the client’s traumatic stress assessment, it was determined that Ibrahim is in phase three. To assist the client in moving into a more stable environment and regulated emotions, it is important to develop a plan of treatment with tangible interventions. Phase three, suggest that the client is in an enduring phase. It would be important to start the initial treatment in this…

In the first article, The Relation Between Insecure Attachment and Post traumatic Stress: Early Life Versus Adulthood Traumas (Ogle & Rubin, 2015), probability sampling was used, with a population pool drawn from the “13th Wave” of the University of North Carolina Alumni (1964 - 1966) Heart Study, an ongoing longitudinal study of University of North Carolina students and their spouses (Sieger et al, 1992) including a total of 1598 participants. A convenience sampling of USC alumni would…

Sylvia Plath has written poetry that fully explores the profound depth of the human psyche. Through her use of confessional poetry and psychic landscape, her poetry delves into the multifaceted layers of the human condition. Plath herself came across as a very complicated and perplexing individual, and in her style of writing, she conveys the inner state of her mind. To read her poetry without the context of her mental state, few readers could comprehend the intensity and compelling suffering…

A veteran comes back from the war in Vietnam. Some people thank him for his services and some people dishonor him for what he did in the war.Many people treat veterans with disrespect because of what they did during their time in combat or even what they did when they came back. Returning veterans or people get treated with either honor, mental help, or with disrespect but mostly disrespect and mental help. Odysseus thinks he will be accepted walking in the castle he once lived in but, he has a…

Hardships come in a variety of ways. Depression, loneliness, loss, broken relationships are all forms of hardship. To endure hardship, is more than just continuing to exist; it is continuing to exist in the same manner as before the suffering began. Many people need someone to help them endure their hardship and their suffering; however, others prefer to be by themselves. In the book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, we can see these two ways of dealing with hardship and suffering in…

After the Vietnam War, 15% of the war’s veterans were never able to successfully transition back into their old lives (“21 Remarkable”). Louise Erdich’s short story, “The Red Convertible,” features a character who develops post-traumatic stress disorder from the war. Erdich explores the depersonalization associated with PTSD through both the symbolism of the red convertible itself and the drastic change seen in Henry Lamartine’s characterization. Henry Lamartine is drafted into the Vietnam War…