United States Department of Justice

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,…

Being in the army can be very life changing. A lot is going on and some of those things can really affect how a person can think or react to different situations. A normal person can be in a situation where danger is coming their way and feel scared, which is what people usually do, but with post-traumatic stress disorder it is as if you feel danger when a person who doesn’t have this disorder wouldn’t feel danger. For example, if a person with ptsd or post-traumatic stress disorder was to hear…

The next week, I was so eager to learn something new. The psychiatrist announced that it was the military week. This implies that he would spend long hours interacting with them because they were new clients. He needed to get good and solid information about every one of them. Most of the clients who worked in the military or who fought in the military, suffered from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). The professor in the abnormal psychology textbook, noted that the diagnostic criteria for…

Mental Illness Mental illnesses are a significant result of war. War veterans are exposed to dangerous environments which, in return, increase the likelihood of of the soldiers experiencing mental illnesses. These mental illnesses may affect the soldier's day to day life due to the symptoms of the mental illness they are suffering with. One mental illness that resulted from war was the Gulf war syndrome. This syndrome affected both British and U.S. soldiers who fought in the Persian gulf…

disorder. The author points out the lack of EMDR, biofeedback, and relaxation training after criticism was elaborated on. The lack of literature known by government officials and critics were brought to the surface to be evaluated. The article states that the Vietnam War veterans responded to a set of questions on a scale called the (PRF) Problem Report Form. The PRF form consists of questions concerning their feelings during evaluation time, at the time they were admitted- two months…

With war there comes trauma, and not all the casualties of war experience only physical symptoms. It was during World War I that soldiers’ mental trauma became more popularly examined. We now know that traumatic events can leave someone experiencing PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Back in 1914, soldiers fighting in the war had their own version called “shell shock”. In the beginning of World War I, British soldiers began to report medical symptoms after combat such as amnesia,…

To serve your country means to put your life on the line for the lives of strangers, to come back stateside and find that those you protected look the other way when you are asking for help is shameful and unethical. Unfortunately, in America today there are about 49,933 homeless veteran, these are people who gave up part of their life for their country, people who are most likely suffering from PTSD or other mental disorder, and people who ultimately deserve better than the streets (“Fact…