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High rates of PTSD in Iraq War veterans are being seen, as well as a number of other difficulties, including alcohol and drug use, and depression. This may not be too surprising to read as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the news everyday, as are reports of their effect on the mental health of the men and women serving there. A majority of service members in Iraq and Afghanistan have encountered traumatic experiences and high rates of PTSD and other difficulties have been found.…

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…

Some of the consequences are best seen in the downfall of the economy and disagreements between country. An example of this is when United States went into the Great Depression and this became a worldwide concern. Even countries who are not greatly involved gets to face the consequences. The war causes countries to be in debt and also have a great consequences of the collapse of their economy…

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 speech). But areas of the right hemisphere, associated with emotional states and autonomic arousal, lit up, particularly the area around the amygdala, which might be called the brain's "smoke detector.” This suggests that when people relive their traumatic…

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 include: Females, veterans, and survivors of rape and mortal combat. However, presentation occurs at any age. Onset of PTSD is commonly experienced within the first 3 months following trauma. As such, initial trauma reactions can present synonymously as other…

Gulf war Syndrome is a very uncommon disease. this condition is also called chronic multi-symptom illness. It refers to the presents of several undiagnosed illnesses in veterans. It is a medical condition that effected many veterans in the war of 1991. It affected from a quarter to a third of the soldiers. Gulf war syndrome causes people to have joint pain, tiredness, indigestion, sleep problems, memory difficulties, chronic headaches, and skin and respiratory disorders. Its organ is…

The United States is an international representation of power and wealth; it is known to have the largest GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in the world as well as the strongest military. However, many soldiers are coming home to fight another battle. Homelessness has always been a way of life in the United States, but only in recent years has the issue become a more widespread and noticeable phenomenon. Around the same time, homeless veteran began to grab the attention of the public. According to…

There may never be a more important survival sense for a soldier than hearing. In a war zone, hearing allows a war fighter to be aware of the enemy miles away before any direct contact happens. However, more often than not, it’s the sense of hearing that gets damaged first. Truth to tell, large numbers of returning servicemen get back to society largely impaired—unable to engage in a normal everyday conversation, much less follow through military instructions. Hearing Loss Anybody who says…

PTSD is a condition that is caused by traumatic events and affects 5.2 million people in the United States during the course of a given year("What Is PTSD?"). In some extreme cases PTSD can prevent people from having a normal life or can even be life threatening. PTSD is a condition that has many terrible symptoms, gives modern therapists many problems, and has plagued soldiers for many years. There are three different types of symptoms one can experience when having PTSD. The first type of…