The Role Of PTSD In Military Veterans
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Sergey Romaniv
Instructor: William S. Durden
English 102
17 May 2014
Military Veterans Face An Uphill Battle Against PTSD
Everyone at some point in their life will experience a traumatic event. As many as 20% will develop some sort of PTSD. What is PTSD? It is an acronym that is used quite frequently in the past decade, so what does it denote? Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is caused when a person experiences a dangerous event. When a person feels afraid or experiences danger, the body has a natural reaction for this where extra adrenaline is released in the body, also known as the “fight or flight” response. However, people who experience PTSD have had damage caused to this reaction …show more content…
Even though Veterans Affairs has a wonderful webpage describing what they offer to help those suffering, current events such as the above mentioned incident were veterans were denied care and left to die makes a person question how much is really being done to help those affected.
An article published in Time Magazine in January of this year is titled, Suicide Rate
Soars Among Young Vets, states that the suicide rate among young vets under the age of 30 has increased upwards of 44 percent in the past two years. These statistics are very shocking when broken down meaning roughly 22 former service men/women commit suicide every day. The
Commented [MK20]: Maybe insert a coma? It’s kind of awkward Romaniv 5 rate for women also increased by 11 percent leaving veterans suicide rates well above the general population in the U.S. While they can’t pinpoint exact reasons for the spike in rates, the best explanation they can come up is the link to PTSD and the struggles veterans face when trying …show more content…
PTSD is also a heavily linked reason that many vets returning home have trouble establishing a steady job.
Disruptions they may face cause them to have certain anxiety about entering the work force which leaves many of them out of work and often times homeless, as seen in the large number of
Vietnam Veterans who are homeless due to their lack of treatment.(nydailynews.com) Not only have physical violence against them increased, it’s also become an issue on the national stage where mass violence is committed against others.
The New York Times reported on April 15, 2014 that, “When Frazier Glenn Miller shot and killed three people in Overland Park, Kansas on Sunday, he did so as a soldier of the white power movement: a groundswell that united Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other fringe elements after the Vietnam War, crested with the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, and remains a diminished but potent threat today.” (nytimes.com) While no single indicator
Sergey Romaniv
Instructor: William S. Durden
English 102
17 May 2014
Military Veterans Face An Uphill Battle Against PTSD
Everyone at some point in their life will experience a traumatic event. As many as 20% will develop some sort of PTSD. What is PTSD? It is an acronym that is used quite frequently in the past decade, so what does it denote? Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is caused when a person experiences a dangerous event. When a person feels afraid or experiences danger, the body has a natural reaction for this where extra adrenaline is released in the body, also known as the “fight or flight” response. However, people who experience PTSD have had damage caused to this reaction …show more content…
Even though Veterans Affairs has a wonderful webpage describing what they offer to help those suffering, current events such as the above mentioned incident were veterans were denied care and left to die makes a person question how much is really being done to help those affected.
An article published in Time Magazine in January of this year is titled, Suicide Rate
Soars Among Young Vets, states that the suicide rate among young vets under the age of 30 has increased upwards of 44 percent in the past two years. These statistics are very shocking when broken down meaning roughly 22 former service men/women commit suicide every day. The
Commented [MK20]: Maybe insert a coma? It’s kind of awkward Romaniv 5 rate for women also increased by 11 percent leaving veterans suicide rates well above the general population in the U.S. While they can’t pinpoint exact reasons for the spike in rates, the best explanation they can come up is the link to PTSD and the struggles veterans face when trying …show more content…
PTSD is also a heavily linked reason that many vets returning home have trouble establishing a steady job.
Disruptions they may face cause them to have certain anxiety about entering the work force which leaves many of them out of work and often times homeless, as seen in the large number of
Vietnam Veterans who are homeless due to their lack of treatment.(nydailynews.com) Not only have physical violence against them increased, it’s also become an issue on the national stage where mass violence is committed against others.
The New York Times reported on April 15, 2014 that, “When Frazier Glenn Miller shot and killed three people in Overland Park, Kansas on Sunday, he did so as a soldier of the white power movement: a groundswell that united Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other fringe elements after the Vietnam War, crested with the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, and remains a diminished but potent threat today.” (nytimes.com) While no single indicator