Psychological trauma

A Cautionary word about Cautions Imagine strolling out the door of a safe, comfortable home only to see a wooden sign staked in the front yard. “WARNING: POTENTIAL DANGER AND UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATIONS AHEAD,” it reads. Similar to this situation, trigger warnings are warnings that are blatantly placed on pieces of literature considered to be trivial or upsetting to students. Though the purpose of these warnings is meant to aid traumatized students, their effects are overwhelmingly negative.…

Everyone experiences nightmares from time to time. It is when they become recurrent and create problems for the patient that the situation needs to be addressed. There are numerous triggers that can serve as a catalyst for frequent nightmares, including trauma, stress, medications, sleep deprivation, scary movies and books, and substance abuse. Additionally, certain medical…

For His Father’s Sake Jim Corbin lived with his wife and eighteen year old son, Jim Corbin, Jr., in the state of Colorado. One Wednesday evening as they were returning home from church services there was a terrible automobile accident. The father and mother were both killed. Jim Jr. was devastated. Having no relatives with whom he was acquainted, he quite alone in a huge, uncaring world. Then he remembered hearing his father talk about his High School and college classmate, Andrew Carter,…

Trauma is described by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as “a psychologically distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience… and that would be markedly distressing to almost anyone” (1993). Specific cases of trauma include exposure to war, rape, neglect, automobile and other accidents, invasive surgery, serious illness, and assault (Levine, 1997). The definition of trauma goes on to include any “serious threat to one’s life or physical integrity;…

to McDonagh, et al. (2005), this intervention, when working with individuals diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, “was highly effective for achieving remission of PTSD diagnosis, ameliorating PTSD and anxiety system severity, and reducing trauma- related cognitive distortions” (2005, p.522). Due to the symptoms that this client is experiencing, including frequent flashbacks, changes in sleep, and increased agitation, utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, therapy focused on “imaginal…

The devastation caused by war does not just affect the country's economical and political status but people within it especially those fighting. Soldiers usually get perceived as emotionless beings who will follow any command that are given to them without question. They do this in order to protect their country. In many cases this is true but they do have emotions and judgements, which they choose to ignore in order to survive. During and after the war is finished, many soldiers are affected by…

multiple perspectives this gives us multiple sides of the story to show the effects of trauma which is present throughout all of the character’s lives and how they have responded to the trauma and the walls they have put up for protection. Caswell uses dreams and flashbacks throughout the book to show the trauma that each of the main characters have experienced and how it has lead to how they act now. Trauma effects can be profound and sometimes invisible in people, Caswell portrays this…

blocked by the larger fibers and opened by the smaller nerve fibers (Myers, Dewall, 2016). Phantoms or in other words, hallucinations from deaf, blind, or other people with nerve damage are also biological influences toward pain. Continuing, psychological influences affecting pain include athletes who just play through the pain, no matter what the after effects could be and our memories of pain (Myers, Dewall, 2016). Our memories of pain would be overlooking the duration of pain, such as…

War, a traumatic experience no matter what are you are in, nurse, sergeant,,,... Many military personnel suffer during their time and way after their time is over.. It is no secret that many military suffer from PTSD and other disorders that are the cause of seeing their friends blow up or getting shot at and although there time passed from when they watched it, it is a traumatic experience. Dr. Wayne Jonas, a retired army medical officer, discussed many of the challenges military personnel as…

All Quiet on the Western Front and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder All Quiet on the Western Front causes its readers to imagine the horrors of war. "In the branches dead men are hanging. A naked soldier is squatting in the fork of a tree, he still has his helmet on, otherwise he is entirely unclad. There is only half of him sitting up there...and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb. Over there lies a body...” (Remarque 172-173). Reading quotes like this one…