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This nation veteran inspired me to become a healthcare professional, because of the sacrifices they have made for our country. Many veterans have been injured during the long wars, with many suffering life-altering experiences that have left lasting physical and physiological scars. However, many veterans don’t receive their full benefits, especially where it comes to healthcare because of the backlog of the VA caused by the Global War on Terror, mental illness, or red tape. As the…

minds and bodies,” Stan Wilczek, the author of Death’s Revenge, suggests. Posttraumatic stress disorder is also known as PTSD, a mental disorder that occurs after experiencing traumatic events. Statistically, among all 21.8 million veterans in the United States, 20% suffer from PTSD (Zarembo). Although the government…

Ryleigh Thornton Ms. Freshwater Honors English 9 7 March 2017 Veterans: How can the government improve health care for military veterans? The suicide rate of returned veterans is 22 veterans per day (Gourley 1). “To help insure the VA has the capacity to diagnose and treat veterans returning from the Iran and Afghanistan conflicts, as well as to maintain these services for other veterans, we recommend that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs direct the Under Secretary for Health to prioritize…

This addiction to opioids is carried over to the states where there is an increase in opioid dependency “Department of Defense service members rose from 1% to 10%” (Dabbs 885). Another study took into account the soldiers rank and marital status. Soldiers ranking from E1 to E4 are most likely to develop opioid dependency from PTSD…

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…