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When a soldier returns home from war, there is a very low chance of that soldier adapting back into their life, returning it to the way it was before they enlisted and left for war. The question of whether dying in battle would be easier than going home with PTSD and other issues has been asked many times. When a soldier returns home after the war, they have plenty of scars that run deeper than the surface of their body. “Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I…

Families of the person that have PTSD have to go through a lot. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs states “Families of Veterans with PTSD experience more physical and verbal aggression”. Such families also have more instances of family violence. Violence is committed not just by the males in the family. One research study looked at male…

Combat trauma goes as far back as 1812, when Swiss soldiers’ reactions to combat stress where documented Napoleon’s field surgeons. Although the source did not state what name they gave it. Since then combat trauma has been documented as DaCosta’s syndrome, nostalgia, soldier’s irritable heart, Shell Shock, combat exhaustion, and operational fatigue. Finally by 1980 it was established in the DSM-3 as Posttraumatic…

Military deployment may adversely affect not only returning veterans, but their families, as well. As a result, researchers have increasingly focused on identifying risk and protective factors for successful family adaptation to war-zone deployment, re-integration of the returning veteran, and the longer-term psychosocial consequences of deployment experienced by some veterans and families. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among returning veterans may pose particular challenges to military…

screaming was “I want my mama” and he began to ramble about lost comrades and saying that he did what he was trained to do but still suffered fatalities. At the age of 8 or 9, I did not understand what was happening. He was in tears, in an infant-like state, on the floor with his head in our mother’s lap. Although situations such as this occurred constantly the more he deployed, this one sticks with me because I had no idea of what Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was and had never seen my brother…

Late-onset stress symptomatology (LOSS) is something that has started to be seen in aging combat veterans. Veterans that are being observed are veterans that have been in stressful combat events early in live, functioned with no disorders, and have recently had thoughts, feelings and memories about their lives as soldiers. This research article used 47 World War II, Korean Conflict, and Vietnam War veterans (Davison, 2006). With our a lot of out older population have served in the war knowing…

person centered therapy have a lower dropout rate then those involved in cognitive behavior therapies. Critical thinking Questions 1. The text (Friedman, 2015) states that pharmacological treatments work best when patients are accepting, when other conditions are present and when cognitive behavior therapy is unavailable. With this state it makes me question if they exhausted all other potential therapy choices before entering pharmacological treatments. 2. I further question pharmacological…

People in the military go through some traumatising situations during their service. They see some bad events and are put in some bad positions. From experiencing these traumatic things it is understandable that veterans may suffer from mental illnesses like, PTSD, depression, anxiety and physical disabilities as an effect of the war. One of the most common and worse mental illnesses veterans suffer from is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a disorder characterized by failure to…

PTSD has affected millions of people for years now. About 8 million adults suffer with PTSD during a given year (PTSD: National Center for PTSD). Not only does the individual have to live with it, but so do those who love them. In the short story “The Red Convertible” written by Louise Erdrich, two brothers are living through the time of the Vietnam War, and their struggle with PTSD. The emotional rollercoaster Erdrich takes us on, through the time before Henry leaves, to the time he comes back,…

The people who were being studied were u.s. army active duty soldiers who actually wanted help with their disorder. All 108 participants could read and speak English but had different levels of education. Mention earlier in the essay there were 100 men and only 8 women in this research study. Where is the diversity? Why only 8 women were being studied. It should have only been just men or they should have added more women. Women are considered in…