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    PTSD Argumentative Essay

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    Did you know 8% of all Americans will experience a traumatic event that will cause Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? This disorder‚ also known as PTSD is an anxiety disorder that commonly affects our troops that keep our country free. PTSD is a commonly heard term‚ but do you know what it really is? Most Americans aren’t aware of the severity of this disorder. PTSD causes depression‚ nightmares‚ anxiety‚ and panic attacks. In many instances‚ people have committed suicide due to a traumatic

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    Critical Thinking Paper Crisis Intervention Val Heike NICC 2/3/2011 10:21:30 A.M. In your opinion‚ is the government doing enough regarding the diagnosis/treatment of mental illness and PTDS for our returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.  (2-3 pages) No‚ I don’t believe that the U.S. Government is serving the populace in the most diligently way possible. Today which is different from the service people of even my father’s era? In his day back in 1946 WWII had just ended. Though

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    Veterans Affairs

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    Running Head: Veteran Affairs Benefits Veteran Affairs Benefits Veteran Affair Benefits The U.S Department Veteran’s Affairs (VA) provides a wide range of benefits for our service members‚ veterans and their families. Some of these benefits include but are not limited to include compensation‚ disability‚ education‚ and home loans. Throughout this paper I will discuss these benefits and the eligibility required to receive them. Eligibility for most VA benefits is based on type of discharge

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    Ptsd in the Vietnam War

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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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    Homeless in America

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    Homelessness in the America 5/16/2013 Many factors can contribute to a person becoming homeless. A shortage of affordable housing can lead to homelessness. A simultaneous increase in poverty or not having an income can make a person become homeless. These are two large trends which happen to be responsible for the rise in homelessness in America over the past 20-25 years. People who have served time in prison‚ have abused drugs and alcohol‚ or have a history of mental illness find it difficult

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    Veterans’ Benefits Today’s veterans are having to suffer without the treatment and help that they should receive for their mental and physical trauma. Although the government spends millions on the military each year‚ veterans’ benefits should be improved because many veterans have to experience bad conditions without the proper health benefits they should receive. The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) has trouble processing and handling all the veterans and their needs. The VA can’t handle

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    Locally in Minnesota a resource that is available to veterans is Veteran Resilience Project (VRP). VRP works with veterans to turn their trauma they have been through into growth (Project‚ 2016). Through this resource veterans are offered 12 free sessions of EMDR (Project‚ 2016). This program offers 100% confidentiality to their patients‚ realizing that PTSD is very serious and life changing for the veterans‚ which they want to acknowledge and not take away from them. In knowing that this is very

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    Military Veterans

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    major factors used in evaluating the usefulness of the military veteran segment. The first one is the number and growth of military veterans. Furthermore‚ their age‚ purchasing power‚ income‚ geographic‚ family‚ and other characteristics are all considerable variables for in the consumer markets. From the data of the U.S. Census Bureau reports‚ in 2010‚ there are 21.8 million veterans in the United States‚ and the percentage of veterans 25 and older with at least a bachelor’s degree in 2010 was 26%

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    Who is a Veteran?

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    Veteran‚ a small word…with an enormous meaning. The definition of words may be altered based upon personal perspectives. Prior to entering the course of “The Literature of The Returning Soldier” my definition of a veteran was simply someone who fought for our county‚ I now have expanded my ideas on the definition of what a veteran truly is. In my personal opinion‚ a veteran can be a man or women‚ they are selfless individuals who often give up their personal lives to enter a future of uncertainties

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    Veterans Administration

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    Incentives and Performance Measurement Within the Department of Veterans Affairs The U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs is responsible for providing a broad spectrum of healthcare services to war veterans‚ ranging from medical to psychological services. The Department of Veterans Affairs or the VA was formerly established in 1930 after Congress authorized the President to “consolidate and coordinate Government activities affecting war veterans”. Since that time “the VA health care system has grown from

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