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Say the words soldier or veteran, and countless images come to mind. Children and teens imagine a hero, one who saves lives, and happily returns home as a knight in shining armor. Adults too, carry these images in their minds often forgetting that there is much more to a soldier's return to civilian life than this simplified, idealistic version that exists in our heads. Veterans go through more trauma than most people could ever imagine, they go into war without realizing that the faces of…

Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, is a teenage boy going through severe struggles. Throughout the novel: the Catcher in the Rye, Holden goes through a variety of depression due to his past experiences. These experiences are affecting the conflicts he has with his depression, and it is mainly from one mental illness. Certain symptoms from Holden Caulfield imply that he is diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD, the abbreviation for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is an anxiety…

An estimated five percent of Americans- more than thirteen million people- have PTSD at any given time (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fact Sheet). PTSD is a disorder that is triggered by a very stressful traumatic event. People who have PTSD suffer from dramatic mood changes, hallucinations, anxiety, easy agitation, and thoughts of suicide. Holden Caulfield, the main character in The Catcher In the Rye experienced traumatic event when his brother, Allie, died when Holden is only thirteen.…

It is most fair to say Chip suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD) since he meets the requirements such as: difficulty with self-image, highly manipulative, and immature. Nicholas Kuvaas elaborates on the characteristics of BPD by saying these characteristics have been around and persistent for years and people with BPD will have a love-hate relationship with people around them. This is such the case with Chip. Chip is in his middle adulthood, yet he acts as if he’s still a child.…

War is an armed conflict influenced by opposing states, parties, or nations. And as a result of these events, many people are involved directly in the war and many perish during the struggle to end the war. Though the loss of life is always a terrible result, it is not the only one as a consequence of war. There are those who survived these wars but came back, sometimes sent back, home with not physical injuries but with emotional and mental ones. These psychological injuries were called many…

One of many prominent themes in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, is fear. Fear is an unpleasant human emotion that is triggered when a perceived threat, likely to cause pain or distress, presents itself. It is a basic survival mechanism that signals when danger is present. It is an essential part of keeping safe from harm and threats. In Golding’s Lord of the Flies, fear is a persistent theme that occurs in each chapter of the infamous novel. The fear in the group of boys was…

In “Buried Above The Ground,” three individuals from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and geographical locations develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). A common misconception about PTSD is that it afflicts only war veterans; however, in this documentary the exact opposite is analyzed through the lens of not only a war veteran, but also a survivor of domestic violence and another individual who survived a natural disaster. Although the symptoms manifest themselves differently in each…

probably for a better result. The events need not be always the happy moments of the life. The events may relate to a severe traumatic event happened in one’s life. The person should write at a stretch continuously for four days without regard to spelling or grammar or proper sentence construction. The emphasis is made on this point as when people start to take care of the superficial aspects like grammar or spelling they tend to become cautious and it blocks the free passage of emotions out of…

The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge she possesses. The impact of traumatic events on nurses is a far bigger problem then what people say about it. Some nurses become affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) very early in their careers even after being a nurse for a few years. Post Traumatic Syndrome, a common term used mostly around military personnel but, PTSD has become a bigger problem in the last decade in the medical field. Especially with nurses,…

In the article, “Afghan War Veteran." written by David P. Straub, the article states that returning United States Soldiers are suffering from PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder while fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and they are not getting the help they need. America launched Operation Enduring Freedom a month after the September 11th terrorist attack to overthrow the Taliban regime and destroy terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan. For about two years only about 15,000–20,000 military…