Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disease that is triggered by a traumatic event. I have been struggling with PTSD‚ major depression‚ and anxiety for the past seven years of my life. It stinks to have to live with a mental illness. There’s so many people that just push them aside and just think they’re all make believe. They aren’t in my shoes. They haven’t been through what I’ve been through. What triggered my PSTD was that my father passed away when I only ten years old.
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When most people think of a twelve year old child‚ they think of someone in middle school worried about making friends and fitting in. For many children in war-ridden countries in Africa‚ they have a much different reality. They are forced into becoming soldiers‚ given narcotics‚ and told to kill certain targets and people. Child soldiers are enlisted at very young ages‚ put onto the front lines‚ and forced to kill. That is why the children involved are victims of this terrible process‚ and should
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Child soldiering is a global problem. Worldwide‚ there are about 300‚000 child soldiers‚ most of them taken from their homes‚ forced to take drugs‚ and then told to shoot people for their superior’s amusement. Not only this but they are tortured‚ and treated like slaves for the rest of their lives. Even if they try to escape they will most likely be shot‚ but if they do end up escaping they will just end up being taken by someone else. Child soldiers deserve amnesty because‚ they are taken from their
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these children face or are asked to do is horrific. Many of the youth are under fifteen years old‚ recruited to be soldiers‚ forced into marriage at young ages‚ or joined to escape their reality. What do you do when you are kidnapped and forced to fight a war you know nothing about? Should this child be prosecuted for crimes he or she committed during war times? Should child soldiers be prosecuted for war crimes? You are ten years old at school and war breaks out in your village like in the book
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PTSD is not a pleasant experience for any man‚ woman or child to experience‚ it causes them to fear doing some of the most basic functions a person should do. Riding a bus can be terrifying to a man who survived a car crash. Being in a relationship can be horrifying to a woman who has been subject to rape. It can even cause a child to completely shutdown from reality for fear of just not knowing how to deal with these nightmares caused by abusive “guardians”. Its deadly to the sane mind‚ it causes
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debilitating to the victims everyday life. A soldier with PTSD may experience emotional outburst‚ find it hard to communicate with others. Panic attacks‚ sleeping disorder‚ and flashbacks are a few of the major side effects. The soldier often will feel guilty which makes it difficult for them to adjust back into civilian life. Not knowing how to reunite with friends and family often lead to sever depression and suicide. An incident that may remind the soldier or their trauma can send them into a sever
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PTSD in the Vietnam War The Vietnam War was considered one of the bloodiest battles ever in the history of the United States. Not only were soldiers harmed physically during the war‚ but they were also wounded mentally. There are endless accounts of soldiers leaving the war and coming home not just with bullet wounds‚ but the memories that followed with it. These memories caused soldiers to not sleep at night and in some cases ruining their lives and forcing them to suicide. After the war‚ specialists
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Should child soldiers be given Amnesty? Child soldiers were young innocent adolescents who were abducted‚ as well as being trained to be dangerous children with dangerous killer instincts. But just because these child combatants have these killer instincts‚ that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be given amnesty‚ because they do. Child soldiers have come from a very emotional background. They’ve been through so much‚ it’s unbelievable how much they’ve been through. Child soldiers used to be innocent
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Child Soldiers in Sierra Leon: An Annotated Bibliography Masland‚ Tom (2002) We Beat and Killed People. Newsweek‚ 139 (Issue 19) 24-29. This article was about four former child soldiers in the Sierra Leon civil war that were interviewed by Newsweek. They each relive the horrors of their prior lives during the war and give us a walkthrough of just how savage these young boys were living at the time. The interview topics range from before the war‚ being forced into service‚ drug factors‚ atrocities
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