Physical trauma

Grounding Yourself Your pectoral muscles involuntary tighten, breathing gets harder and harder, your starting to sweat and you have no clue why. Hands to start to shake as you grab your chest from the pain and discomfort, each breath gets harder than the next one proceeding it. Your heart is now racing, are you having a heart attack, are you slowly dying? Your mind races from one outcome to the next, drawing blank conclusions trying to determine the cause; you scream for help inside your head,…

Scope/focus of ARP The focus of my ARP is on understanding the negative stigma surrounding seeking assistance with suicidal ideations within the military culture. The focus of my ARP is on military members because of the alarmingly high rate of military suicides in the past 10 years. As of yet there are no reliable explanations for the dramatic increase in military suicides. As a military member myself, this trend is very real and affects my daily life. Level of comfort I am very…

Serving our country is a privilege. Most people, for various reasons, become part of the Armed Forces family, and give their lives to protect and defend our freedom, and our way of life. At the end of their tour, which can last from a couple of years, to twenty, thirty, or even more. After facing many disturbing, mind-blowing events, Veterans want to do something positive with their lives. But after coming back home, and because they spent their entire adult life in the service, most of them…

Values are not always what we grow up with or our parent’s view of the world. They vary through each page of the book that we call life. Our experiences, dreams, circumstance and many other factors have led us down the road to helping others. We do not always know our values until we face them. We cannot always be thankful for our values until they are challenged. So much of life is growth and change and that is often where we learn who we are. As practitioners in Child and Youth Care your…

Might I have the capacity to make a reasonable solicitation – do you know who likes back torment? Considering all things, I can answer that solicitation for you – no one. Yes, you got that advantage – no one! Back torment is an unending condition that individuals go up against for the span of the day and dependably. There is just around a boundless measure of foundations for back anguish and a wearisome number of painkillers available to cover the torment. Regardless, these painkillers address…

When you sustain injuries due to an accident, you are not the only one who is suffering. You whole family suffers along with you. This is because though you suffer from pains and sufferings due to injuries, your family suffers from the collateral damages. There is loss of income along with the piling up of the medical and rehabilitation bills. Many times there is also incapacitating stress and anxiety. Though as an accident victim, you are entitled for compensation for you injuries, pain and…

A good example of this is the great trauma of Pearl Harbor. When FDR gave his Day of Infamy speech, his words came with an extra layer of gravity, as it would decide whether or not the US would enter into the war on the Axis powers. He uses a few forms of figurative language such as repetition…

Restrepo Restrepo depicts the experiences of the soldiers in Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Batallion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in the Korengal Valley. The film shows the first-hand accounts of the men who endured one of the most dangerous places in the U.S. Military. The platoon begins their operations out of Combat Outpost Korengal. Captain Dan Kearney wants to expand the forces’ influence within the area in order to affect more of the local populace. One…

Critical review of Sharon Dekel et al,2013, ‘Posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms: Joined or independent sequelae of trauma?’, Journal of Psychiatric Research 54 (2014) page 64-69. Dekel et al conducted a study “addresses this issue by investigating associations between probable PTSD and depressive symptoms in a prospective, longitudinal sample of combat veterans.” (Dekel et al, 2014) This research was aimed to provide further evidence in association between PTSD and Depression…

Heroes for Our Heroes As I was surfing the web, I saw an article titled “Vets Adopt Pets". This article caught my attention because I believed that by vets it meant veterinarians what it actually means is veterans. According to this article, there are organizations that train dogs to be companions for our veterans who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. According to an article in the newspaper, Blade, PTSD is a disorder caused by traumatic experiences such as war, abuse, accidents, and…