stress-related and somatoform disorders

Post-traumatic stress disorder can occur after someone has been exposed to a traumatic event. Trauma is defined as, “an extremely distressing experience that causes severe emotional shock and may have long-lasting psychological effects” (Townsend, 2014). Any event that causes a person to have intense fear of physical harm or death to themselves or a loved one may lead to PTSD. Events such as a motor vehicle accident, combat exposure, physical or sexual abuse, fire, tornado, hurricane, flood,…

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien explores the experiences of a platoon from the Vietnam war in a series of short stories. The stories go deeper than the events of the war, they show the moral dilemmas soldiers face everyday in the battlefield. Tim O’Brien served in the Vietnam war, but these stories are not based off of his experience, although it plays a role in his storytelling. Most of the short stories are written in first person from the perspective of Tim O’Brien, a fictional…

The cause and consequences of PTSD in prisoners The Nation Survey of American life has said that Americans who spend time in prison are two times as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Criminals will claim they are experiencing some kind of mental health disorder but maybe they had a disorder before getting locked up. I do not think society should feel bad because a prisoner is experiencing PTSD, to me that is just a consequence to the chain of events they started. There are…

way, causing witnesses to have physical and/ or mental disorders, along with a feeling of helplessness and loss of faith in government. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an example of the impact war can have on soldiers. It is about Paul Baumer, a soldier in the war, and the reader follows him through his tragic endeavors fighting in the war on the side of…

World War I was the largest and deadliest war the world had ever seen at the time. Due to this many began to suffer from conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and or disillusionment after seeing so much death and experiencing traumatic situations during the war. This is shown in characters such as Jake, Mike, Brett and Bill from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway is able to portray these characters as lost by making them wander aimlessly from place to place and also by…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or better known as PTSD is an illness affecting many people in the world, but its most common victims are the veterans of war. One in eight veterans return from war afflicted with PTSD and the number continually rises with war time atrocities becoming worse as new terror organizations form. The things our soldiers see greatly traumatize leaving them scarred for life and give them an incomprehensible fear of it, leading to a difficult life in which they can’t live…

PTSD is “an anxiety disorder that can occur after [someone has] been through a traumatic event” and it does not only happen to people who have been in the military (Shannontgasser, 2008). When someone has PTSD, “bad memories of the traumatic event can come back at any time ……

painful, many years later, people are still dealing with aftershock. People suffer from fear, horror, helpessness from seeing huge amount of casualties, long-term stress can lead to serious emotional and physical side effects (Guojun, 2012). One large aspect of reapeated painful experiences after traumatic event is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. A lot of people think about trauma and crisis mostly in terms of mental state. Depression, lack of motivation, inability to do anything productive,…

psychological violence, emotional abuse or mental abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder. In a study of 1,000 women 15 years of age or older, 36% had experienced emotional abuse while growing up; 43% had experienced some form of abuse as children or adolescents. In this paper I will be talking about Psychological Abuse as a…

“The Sniper” Analysis War can change the history of a country in a single day. The story attempts to portray this topic by informing the readers of one of the many events that can happen in the day to day life of a soldier. The soldiers are affected mentally, as much as they are physically, if they survive to make it home. As we see, Liam O’Flaherty’s character almost does not survive. The author, Liam O’Flaherty was born in Inishmore, Ireland which most likely led to him choosing to…