The Role Of PTSD In The Military

Five million people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from the ages of eighteen to fifty-four in the United States in a given year. Fourteen percent of those people are military personnel. Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a mental effect on the brain after going through trauma or a life-threatening event. I am familiar with PTSD in military personnel because my dad had this mental effect when I was growing up. PTSD is a serious mental effect that affects a lot of troops who need treatment. Post-traumatic stress disorder, according to WebMD, is a condition in which a person has gone through or seen a life-altering or a terrifying event either physically or emotionally (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder). For normal people, after something traumatic happens, they experience shock, anger, nervousness, fear, and guilt. For them, that feeling goes away after a short period of time. People who suffer with PTSD, those feelings last on
In 2009, two hundred and forty-five service members committed suicide. For the troops who suffer with PTSD, their marriages are failing and two hundred thousand are broken. It is hard to handle someone with PTSD who does not get treatment. Those who do follow up with treatment will receive either therapy or medication (PTSD). Veterans are able to go to the VA for their treatment and whatever help they need. According to The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, forty-six percent of veterans go to the VA for care and of that forty-six percent, forty-eight percent are diagnosed with a mental health issue (PTSD: National Center). They also state some reasons why some veterans will not seek treatment. They include that they fear being seen as weak, concern about being treated differently, they do not believe treatment is effective, they are concerned about privacy, along with several other