stress-related and somatoform disorders

Acute Stress Disorder Google defines an acute stress disorder as it “is characterized by the development of severe anxiety, dissociative, and other symptoms that occurs within one month after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor,” a death or an accident. A stress disorder can affect decisions made in the future and the outcome of consequences. Stress can be as physical as it can be mental on a person. Most people can recover or bounce back from an event that is caused by stress but for the…

Imagery Exposure Therapy Imagery Exposure Therapy is something I am well acquainted with as a United States Army Veteran. Imagery Exposure Therapy is widely used in the Veterans Administration (VA) for PTSD and victims of rape. In 2011 I was diagnosed with PTSD at a routine doctor’s visit by a doctor who was able to discern my surly mood and recommend counseling. The VA sent me to counseling with a psychologist; at this time I was not aware that I had PTSD, I was resistant to the idea that…

Emotional Trauma is Psychological, or emotional trauma, is damage or injury to the psyche after living through an extremely frightening or distressing event and may result in challenges in functioning or coping normally after the event. Its can happen to anyone of any sort. I believe that the up most first people all over the world that would come to mind who suffer from this trauma are military personnel. I say this because we have an active force of over 1,500,000 infantry wise. They…

The apprehension the individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder show include "longer sleep latencies, longer time awake after sleep onset, and shorter total sleep time than healthy controls," it should also be noted that "Sleep disturbances may further complicate the clinical presentation of PTSD" (Straus 8). Therefore, The traumatizing nightmares do not take place because of random issues, the "National Center for PTSD of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs" stated that the nightmares…

In the case of Josh, it is difficult to make a concrete diagnosis. Josh is experiencing what seem to be symptoms of PTSD, adjustment disorder and Grief. Josh experienced a recent life or death traumatic experience in which he witnessed his fiancé being killed and dying in his arms. Following this event, Josh has experienced recurring memories of the events and reliving it as if it is happening all over again. He has experienced nightmares almost every night, and quit his job due to his symptoms…

than 17,530 US troops in 2009 were hospitalized for mental disorders. Traumatic brain injury is the most prominent injury that occurs in war with more than 50% of all combat related casualties a result of brain injury. With the advances in treatment and evacuation, however, more wounded soldiers are surviving than they did just a few years ago. However, hundreds of thousands are coming home and suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder with a significant percentage of those who are suffering…

was like for you to shoot another human being? How could you tell her how vulnerable and scared you felt, never knowing if you would live another hour…”1. These are the types of questions and horrors that keep veterans with PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) from returning to their normal lives before the war. PTSD is not only a disease that keeps people awake at night with nightmares; it is a disease that creeps into every aspect of their lives and keeps them from functioning in society as…

PTSD symptoms. PTSD has evolved into a more common diagnosis but still each person evaluated must meet the criteria needed to classify their illness as PTSD but there is a very thin line between PTSD and moral injury. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a mental disorder in which the person gets into traumatic event, and later afterwards can get triggered to look back on and remember that event. In the war soldiers who came back, had the possibility of having PTSD. War is hard, and it takes a lot…

Introduction Terminology Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) “encompasses the negative physical, emotional, and cognitive reassocations that can occur in response to indirect exposure to trauma, such as working with trauma survivors” (Kulkarni, Bell, Hartman, & Herman-Smith, 2013, 115). It is often used as an umbrella term to include: burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma (VT) and traumatic countertransference, (Salston & Figley, 2003). STS can include numbing symptoms, intrusive symptoms,…

veterans with PTSD link to Dementia. First of all, what is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is an anxiety disorder that develops when someone is a witness to or experiences a traumatic event. PTSD has specific symptoms resulting from traumatic life threatening…