Physical trauma

will be released via Facebook and Twitter. It will focus on an individual that lost his wife and kids do him delaying a doctor visit after a traumatic incident. This man goes onto describing detail by detail all the symptoms he experienced after the trauma and stresses how ignoring these early signs got him to a stage where no one wanted to be around him due to his difficulties controlling emotions and impulsive/self-destructing behaviors. The message that is being given hearing about PTSD and…

terrorism our country has ever endured, all the while millions more watched the aftermath of the attacks unfold, which turned these terrorist attacks into not only a traumatic event for those who were effected by the attack but instead a collective trauma of every person directly or indirectly affected. The connection between a personable experience and mass media creates a warp of reality…

Welfare measures have been very different for veterans than they are for the general population because veterans are classified as a special class. As early as 1624, the colony of Virginia passed a legislation that is similar to the 1593 “Acte for Reliefes of Souldiours”. This legislation had acknowledged the disabled soldiers special needs and special services. It provided assistance to the veterans as a right on the basis of their disability. The reasons that welfare measures are different…

Trauma is described as, a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. As we have learned from our text, people who experience trauma are more likely to be susceptible to a variety of abuse. In other cases we know that violence can lead to the beginning of, or additional trauma outcomes. This included, PTSD, mental health issues, and maybe the potential increase for substance abuse. Substance abuse also has the ability to be a leading factor as to why some of these issues in violence arise.…

arousal (Matthews). Reliving is when victims continually live their traumatic experience through flashbacks, hallucinations, and nightmares. Avoiding occurs when the victim consciously avoids people, places, and events that bring back memories of their trauma leaving them feeling isolated. Increased arousal occurs when a victim is “having problems relating to…

Initial reactions of having a chronic illness is shock, this may only last for a small period or may even continue for weeks on end, occurs to a certain degree depending on a person’s chronic illness, usually happens when an illness happens without any notice. Subsequently using emotional strategies such as shock, anger and denial, reality then takes place: symptoms then get worse or stay the same depending on the diagnoses of the illness, it come to be clear that modifications need to be made…

Sexual Assault Renae Franiuk is an assistant professor at Aurora University in Illinois and helps her readers understand the broadness of the term, sexual assault. Franiuk explains that "in most states, the legal definitions of first- and second-degree sexual assault involve nonconsensual sexual contact and/or intercourse" (Franiuk 2007). Meaning that any unwanted or forced sexual conduct is grounds for sexual assault. Franiuk held a controlled classroom experiment that asked 61…

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,…

The same kinds of words come to mind when people think of veterans: courageous, brave, heroic, bold,and patriotic, but what about the word sacrificial. Veterans don’t just risk their lives on the battlefield, but their lives afterwards are affected too. They suffer the hardships that no one else will bear and see the horror no one else sees, and because of this I cannot thank them enough. A total of 357,122 veterans have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain…

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is an anxiety disorder triggered by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. This disorder was officially introduced in 1980 when it was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, otherwise known as DSM. This manual contains criteria used to classify and diagnose mental disorders. Before it’s addition to the DSM, it had been noted in military personnel for centuries. PTSD’s symptoms and conditions can be traced back as…