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Jace Homberg 6 Panizzi 10/12/17 Thanatophobia: what comes next in life Walking home at night from a party with a friend and we decided to take the shortcut through the shady alley way, when a mugger popped out of nowhere. He yelled “give me your money”. But my friend had tried to fight him off and they both had their hands on the gun consequently, it misfired and hit me soon. A black abyss that's impossible to escape from was coming closer and closer it…

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), is a disorder that can effect men, women, and children. It can occur after someone goes through or experiences a traumatic event like combat, assault, or disaster (Weathers, Blake, Schnurr, Kaloupek, Marx, & Keane, 2013). Although, in early research this disorder was rooted originally with soldiers who experienced horrific exposure during the war, studies show anyone exposed a trauma, are at risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). According to Whiston…

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that affects people who have gone through a major traumatic event. At one time, a condition known as "Shell Shock" was common among men and women who had been through battle. This condition was also known as battle fatigue. These individuals experienced flashbacks of battle. There are many ways to help overcome this disorder; I believe that the best way is to get treatment through therapy. Soldiers returning home from war are most likely not…

an effort to reconnect with his friends, Gilberto attended a party hosted by one of them on July 4th. However, things quickly took a turn for the worse when someone let off fireworks and Gilberto had an extreme negative reaction to it. Gilberto has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which is a condition that causes a person who has experienced a traumatic event to experience severe or lasting effects. Symptoms of PTSD can appear after a short amount of time, such as six months, or years…

May 2002; VA Medical Center, dated 15 June 2009 and 31 August 2015; VA Rating Decision, dated 2 October 2009, 8 August 2013, and 17 March 2015; Memorandum (Request for Chapter 10), dated 15 September 2006; and Character References time five (5). 6. POST SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: None submitted with the application. 7. REGULATORY CITATION(S): Army Regulation 635-200 sets forth the basic authority for the separation of enlisted personnel. Chapter 10 provides, in pertinent part, that a member…

Miss Havisham keeps reliving her wedding day over and over again. People who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder experience reliving the event (also called re-experiencing symptoms) (Symptoms of PTSD 1). “She still wearing her yellow wedding dress 30 years later” (Dickens 54). Miss. Havisham is still wearing her wedding dress from thirty…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in WWI had such a big effect on the soldiers that they had to discharge thousands of soldiers from fighting in the war. PTSD is easier to get if you have other mental problems like depression and anxiety. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can effect anyone that has experienced a traumatic event in their lifetime. The topic of PTSD possesses a multitude of causes, which negatively impact the victim, his or her family, and society in which the victims lives;…

Post-traumatic stress disorder, known as PTSD, is a mental illness that is developed after seeing or experiencing a traumatic event. It was first introduced and recognized as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. “In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) added PTSD to the third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) nosologic classification scheme (2) ( Friedman, M. J., MD, 2016)”. PTSD was a very…

Josh meets the criteria for a diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Since Josh actually witnessed the death of his fiancé, he meets Criterion A in the DSM for PTSD of directly experiencing the traumatic event (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In accordance with Criterion B for PTSD (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), he frequently has flashbacks related to the event in which he feels as though he is reliving the trauma of that day. Josh’s recurrent nightmares related…

Do you value your freedom? As an American citizen, do you completely understand the cost of the lifestyle you live? The freedom of speech, religion, gun ownership, and the fact that these freedoms are protected by the most powerful document in America, the Constitution, came at a grave cost. This cost was, and is paid, by the countless men and women who put themselves in harms way everyday, American military members. In this brief essay I would like to discuss three of these cost, emotional,…