Trent Affair

In nearly all cases of survival, a person must have great mental and physical fortitude in order to overcome the challenges that face them. Unfortunately, when these survivors return to modern society, they often struggle due to the stark contrast between the challenges in which they survived and the comparative mundaneness of everyday life. Almost all survivors will face this problem at some point in their life. One of the most common victims of this struggle are veterans. Jonathan Kirk…

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…

Various commissioned and noncommissioned Officers in the United States Army have had significant impacts on the military. The Generals of World War II, Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradley, swiftly come to mind. There are, however, other Generals who left a lasting impact once their service was complete. One exceptional individual was General Creighton Abrams. His long stint in the US Army stretched to include positions served during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. During…

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Soldiers that fight for our country sadly are not noticed by some of the people who live outside of the war. In The Gettysburg Address, a famous speech written by Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln writes a speech to dedicate a cemetery for those soldiers who had died in war. The real heroes of the war are those men who never made it out alive and they who did not make it out deserve the right to be remembered. Like Lincoln said, “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place…

Although trauma and aging a topic that is not discussed often, it is something that should be taken into consideration and understood. Trauma and the effect it has on older adults is something I have not heard discussed until this class. Before the discussion, I had never considered the effects that trauma has on older adults. Initially, I thought that trauma would be something that the older adults experienced in the care of something and the effects it has on it. However, now it is clear that…

Outcomes We Do Not Foreshadow On July 28, 1914 the World War I inaugurated causing many countries to join. As these countries joined, the future outcomes were never clear to them. World War I had effects that no one could foreshadow. While some countries and individuals do not know the truth behind war,they later do as their economy is in crisis and soldiers shows signs of PTSD. The war affected all sorts of people and that is the risk they took. While many individuals initially…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the name for the psychiatric disorder that has been around since the beginning of the human species, but has not been widely researched until recently. PTSD occurs after someone has experienced a traumatic event such as life threat, serious injury, or death. This is not the case for every person that has experienced a traumatic event, though. According to the National Center for PTSD (2015), the APA introduced…

Trauma researchers have looked inside the brains of people who have suffered serious emotional trauma. The first scan was while they remembered neutral events in their lives. The second scan was taken as they were exposed to scripted versions of their traumatic memories. During the scanning, the images actually showed dissociation happen in the brains of these PTSD patients. When they remembered a traumatic event, the left frontal cortex shut down, particularly Broca's area (the center for…

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, is a trauma and stress related disorder according to DSM-IV. Although pathogenesis is unknown; exposure of a traumatic or stressful event is a characteristic diagnostic criterion and can include, but are not limited to: military combat, sexual assault, natural disasters, manmade disasters, and automobile accidents. Individuals with PTSD exhibit more prominent clinical symptoms in addition to anxiety/fear indications. Individuals with increased risk…