Trent Affair

Veterans have successfully led our country to where it stands today. Veterans are people who have served in the military. They stood up for our country to help get many things we have today such as freedom. They helped defend the United States’ independence in many wars against powerful nations overseas. Although there are many things that are important to a nation, its veterans are important to its history and future because they defended our country and developed a path that impacts the future…

War is a critical engagement that does not end with the stop of guns t the battle field. More 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…

“How could you tell your girlfriend what it 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…

The modern day term PTSD was originally used to describe a soldier who was adversely affected by war. Over the course of time and studies, researchers found that the Holocaust, natural disasters, and man-made disasters could also be lead to 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…

concerning the risk of dementia prior to their study. The objective of their study was to discover whether or not PTSD is linked to the risk of veterans developing dementia Dr. Yaffe and Associates did a cohort study using the Department of Veterans Affairs National Patient Care Database. The records were collected for patients who ranged from 55 to 100 years old, but had no dementia diagnosis between 1997 through 2000. Originally, over three million veterans who were served by the Veteran…

Abstract: Mental health and Veterans Mental health in the United States has always been a field of study that can be described as the new frontier for health exploration. The National Alliance of Mental Illness reports that roughly 61.5 million Americans experience some form of mental illness in any given year, and approximately 42 million American adults suffer from anxiety disorders like panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Many of…

It is easy to find out who won a war, and it is easy to find statistics on casualties and fatalities. What is less accessible however, is the intangible component that is mental survival. We know that many of those who survive wars develop some level or form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but we pay less attention to the mental state that exists for these soldiers during the war. During the most widespread war in history, WWII, countless individuals abandoned their lives of normality…

Tom Leyton, a Vietnam veteran, was once "so full of hope"- but the war changed him. Experiencing a terrible mental illness, he trapped himself in his own world for decades. Gun shots all around you. Soldiers falling one by one. An agonising image no one can get rid of. As Australian soldiers return home nothing would seem the same to them. Brave men and women who served the country have to continue with a personal battle, a battle with the world of chaos known as post-traumatic stress disorder…

Being a woman is difficult by now we all know that, however being “the woman behind the man” could be very challenging and demanding. “Women’s unpaid work benefits their husbands’ careers. The terms status-enhancing work and two-person career describe situations in which wives serve as unofficial contributors to their husbands work” (Crawford, 2011, p.301). This article is very interesting because it talks about “real life” situations women go through. Having a family and a professional career…

for misappropriation of funding, which stems from two main sources: management flaws and lack of accountability. One of the most notable incidents of mismanagement causing extreme funding waste is the “$6.1 million” the House Committee on Veterans Affairs found the VA Human Resources Department (HR) wasted on two conferences in Orlando, and of this 6.1 million “$97,906” contributed to frivolous promotional items. The financial heads of the VA failed to keep a watchful eye over the VA HR…