My five selves are physical‚ intellectual‚ social‚ emotional‚ and spiritual. My physical self is quite healthy because I fulfill the requirements of the FITT principle. The letters of FITT represent frequency‚ intensity‚ time and type. My intellectual self is interesting because I am mainly right-brained which means that I tend to use my creativity more than my mathematical skills. I am also a visual learned which is connected to me being right-brained. My social self consist of friends‚ family‚
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When someone says the word “self-esteem” the first thing that comes to my mind is a celebrity that has the whole world watching their every move and think to myself‚ “It must be hard to keep healthy‚ high self-esteem with the whole world judging what a certain celebrity is wearing or how they fixed their hair just to go to the grocery store.” Self-esteem is a personal evaluation and judgement of one person’s own self. There are different kinds of self-esteem. One kind of self-esteem is high self-esteem
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Stress of military families dealing with several moves‚ deployments Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) I have been a military wife for almost 21 years and all the above has and still have an effect on my family. I have heard about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) throughout the 21 years but not until the last few years have hit close to home. My cousin’s husband has recently been diagnosed with PTSD. My cousin’s husband got a dog donated by a local Vets program (Guardians of Rescue’s Paws of War
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PTSD is sometimes known as a normal reaction to abnormal events. It was not noticed by the medical community until the 1970s‚ during the Vietnam War. Originally diagnosed in veterans during 1955-1975 It was then first defined as a disorder in 1980. Post-traumatic stress disorder is now recognized in civilians of rape‚ or other criminal assaults‚ natural disasters‚ train collisions‚ aircraft crashes‚ or acts of terrorism such as child abuse. In the early nineteenth century‚ soldiers were diagnosed
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PTSD in the Catcher in the Rye In the "Catcher in the Rye‚" written by J.D. Salinger‚ Holden experienced a traumatic event that would stay with him for the rest of his life. When Holden was 13‚ his 11-year-old brother‚ Allie‚ passed away from leukemia. Holden would never recover from that experience. Holden develops a condition known as PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is best described as "An anxiety disorder that people get after seeing or living through a dangerous event." As described
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PTSD 1 Running Head: PTSD PTSD: A Focus on Civilians and Grief Brian A. Wong Marshall University Author Note Brian A. Wong‚ junior psychology major‚ counseling minor‚ Department of Psychology‚ Marshall University. This research was an assignment in Abnormal Psychology (PSY 408) taught by Jason R. Weaver‚ due Monday‚ April 23‚ 2012. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Brian A. Wong‚ Psychology Major‚ Department of Psychology. Email: brian.wong@live.marshall
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Post-traumatic stress disorder‚ also called PTSD for short‚ is an anxiety disorder. Anyone can get post-traumatic stress disorder‚ especially war veterans or a survivor of a serious or tragic event. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut‚ one of the main characters is Billy Pilgrim. He fought in World War II for the United States. After the war Billy is not the same as he was before. Although Billy Pilgrim is not officially diagnosed with PTSD‚ he shows many signs and symptoms of the
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PTSD and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Many children are exposed to traumatic events before they even become adults. All around the world they are exposed to child abuse‚ rape‚ natural disasters‚ terrorism‚ car accidents‚ and school violence among many others. Studies have shown that these traumatic events‚ if left untreated‚ can result in significant psychological problems‚ such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other anxiety disorders‚ depression‚ or a number of
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Short Essay The Vietnam War started in 1945‚ resulting in almost 60‚000 American deaths and nearly two million Vietnamese deaths‚ according to Mintze. Years after combat countless Vietnam veterans suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder in every aspect of their lives (Price). Posttraumatic stress disorder is an illness that can happen to anyone who has gone through a horrifying experience. It has been documented in all forms of literature and films the brutality of the war and the side
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anguish that allows PTSD to rear its ugly head it seems the variations are un-limited. Now some emotions might be stirred by hatred within the units in the field wielded toward their fellow fighting commandants’. I’d not sure but I would imagine that during Korea and Vietnam women made up maybe only a slight population of the MASH (Mobile Ambulance Surgery Hospital)Bombs bursting around them as well as our poor wounded soldiers can be added to other outward disturbances that can cause PTSD in the Medical
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