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
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PTSD Damaging Identity Many people have heard about PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder‚ a mental health illness that roughly 8 million people experience in a given year. This is not only a serious illness surrounding the military. PTSD could be from any traumatic event. Ranging from sexual abuse to serious accidents to military combat. PTSD can change whom a person is after an event that leads to the illness. Not only can identity alter at times‚ but according to the article “Post Traumatic”
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Stress Disorders (PTSD) has on all branches of service. In this paper I will argue that there is still a lot of testing that can be done to better diagnose weather a service member has PTSD or not. I will give first-hand accounts on people that I have known that have fought this and survived and I will also give an account of someone I know who fought and lost because no one knew he had PTSD. I will show the struggle that service members face day in and day out suffering from PTSD. I believe that
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Post Traumatic stress disorder or more commonly known as PTSD is a condition triggered by a traumatic event that can cause you to have a series of various symptoms and emotions..The most common symptoms of PTSD are anxiety‚and flashbacks.More severe cases of PTSD can also include avoidance‚dissociation‚hypervigilance‚and even self guilt.PTSD can be brought on by any series of traumatic events including: rape‚combat‚natural disaster‚physical abuse‚or a serious accident‚the list can go on and on.Women
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Nature vs Nurture Nature vs. Nurture The etiology of homosexuality has been debated throughout the years by many different organizations. “Sexual orientation refers to a dispositional sexual attraction towards persons of the opposite sex or same sex” (Rahman‚ 2005‚ p. 1057). Many homosexuals are elated to find that genetics is at least partly a source of sexual orientation. On the other hand many do not want the specific genes to be found for fear that they will be used to eliminate homosexuality
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and‚ Scandlyn’s “Decentering PTSD: A War Outgrows a Diagnosis” is about post traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) and how it’s an invisible wound among soldiers .Many soldiers believed that in order to come out of the war those that are claiming to have PTSD are lying. PTSD is socially or culturally constructed. American physicians said many soldiers came to them about physical abnormalities who actually had none. And that is a sign of PTSD. There is a difference of PTSD in today’s soldiers and soldiers
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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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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) continues to negatively impact not only certain veterans but also society. To begin with‚ veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD have difficulty adjusting to the civilian world and interacting with people who have not experienced stress in a combat zone. For instance‚ Alfred Korzybski‚ a WWI combat veteran‚ suffered insomnia and constantly believed airplanes that were flying above him would bomb him (Levinson). Oftentimes‚ PTSD victims experience shifts from
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Chad Patterson Ms. Taylor English 1302-06 29 September 2011 PTSD and Iraq Figley‚ Charles harles R.‚ and William William P. Nash. Combat Stress Injury‚ Theory‚ Research‚ And Management. Brunner-Routledge‚ 2007. . This book defines PTSD as a chronic‚ debilitating psychological condition that occurs in a subset of persons who experience or witness‚ life-threatening traumatic events. PTSD is characterized by re-experiencing‚ avoidance‚ and hyperarousal symptoms that occur over time and lead
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Want to learn more about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? More known as PTSD. With this information I am going to provide for you will know a lot more about PTSD than you have before. The more you know the better you will understand the infected. You could help people that were diagnosed with this horrible disease. And get the concept of how they are living. WWII was a lot different from other wars they used bigger field weapons and bombs‚ which made soldiers have a greater risk of dying and seeing
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