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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Living with PTSD is a daily conflict that creates obstacles in life specific to the individual. After I returned home from Iraq nothing was the same. Everything became artificial. The events and activities I once found pleasure in become generic and lacked the zest I once sought after. My days quickly transformed into hour after hour of depression‚ survivors guilt‚ and anger. I was tangled in a downward spiral of self-loathing obsessing over intrusive thoughts that played me like a puppet. The
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Those that experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) know that it’s a horrible experience‚ one that they wouldn’t want to pass on. For those who experienced PTSD provoking trauma it’s a sad reality that their PTSD will be passed on to their children who didn’t experience the traumatic event‚ creating a cycle. PTSD‚ among other things‚ has the ability to be passed down because of epigenetics‚ the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration
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Additionally‚ several other symptoms of PTSD can impact the minds of those overcome by this disorder. While addressing the misconceptions of modern literature‚ Paul Chappell emphasizes‚ “…Children reading [The Hunger Games] are given the unrealistic impression that our minds are virtually immune
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This paper examines the diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as demonstrated by David Pelzer in his autobiographies A Child Called It and The Lost Boy‚ with a focus on the latter book. Dave is the son of alcoholic parents whose mother severely abused him while his father turned the other cheek. Dave has been subjected to torturous mind games‚ starvation‚ and physical abuse so horrendous that he is left scarred‚ bruised‚ and nearly dead. The staff at his elementary school eventually takes action
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"PTSD in War Veterans" PTSD‚ or commonly known as Post-traumatic stress disorder‚ is the development of characteristic symptoms after a psychologically traumatic event‚ typically outside the range of usual human experience. It is important to remember that the reaction to stress is highly individualized‚ which means that the stress that would cause this syndrome in one person could possibly have little‚ if any‚ effect on another person. (TCMD). Vietnam veterans are particularly vulnerable to post-traumatic
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there lying did in front of his eyes it is a nasty and scary thought. Looking at your one of your close friends dead in front of you his blood on you he got shot in the neck so blood is just skeeting out or uncontrolable running down the neck. His PTSD is bad because even if he thinks about it he will start throwing up. When he was telling the story of how everything happen he would start getting sick just think about this someone close to you die right in front of your eyes how would you act after
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For Veterans with PTSD‚ A New Demon: Their Meds Threat of Addiction to Prescription Painkillers Heightened With Mental Illness By Thomas Catan @tomcatan Thomas.Catan@wsj.com Thomas Catan Biography Thomas Catan @tomcatan Thomas.Catan@wsj.com Thomas Catan Biography Updated Nov. 10‚ 2013 10:32 p.m. ET NEWPORT‚ N.H.—Desperation drove Timothy Fazio‚ a former Marine‚ to turn up around midnight at a veterans’ hospital near Boston. His post-traumatic stress disorder was causing
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