Veteran Suicide Due to Sleep Disturbance Grant Wright ITT Technical Institute Abstract This article reviewed the role of sleep disturbance in time to suicide since the last treatment visit among veterans receiving Veterans Health Administration services. Among 423 veteran suicide decedents from two geographic areas‚ veteran suicides with a documented sleep disturbance were compared with those without sleep disturbance on time to death since their last VHA visit using an accelerated failure
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Post Traumatic Stress in Vietnam Veterans For more than twenty years‚ Patricia Dietz‚ a wife of a Vietnam veteran‚ has suffered along with her husband the effects of post traumatic stress disorder. She has stated that‚ "It has changed everything; it has affected the rest of his and her life." Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is when a person‚ in this case a veteran from Vietnam‚ is haunted by his memories of war and death so badly that it affects not only the rest of his life‚ but others
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multicomponent approach‚ and it recognizes the complex nature of the often chronic nature of combat- related disorders” (Encyclopedia of Trauma…). Every VA medical center has Post-traumatic Stress Disorder specialists who provide treatment options to veterans suffering with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. They offer one-to-one mental health assessments and testing‚ one-to-one psychotherapy also involving family therapy sessions. They also provide group therapy‚ and incorporate medicine if needed. Along
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Works Cited Associated Press. "Veterans Administration Health Care Is Not Readily Available in Rural Areas." Do Veterans Receive Adequate Health Care? Ed. Susan C. Hunnicutt. Detroit: Greenhaven Press‚ 2012. At Issue. Rpt. from "For Veterans in Rural Areas‚ Health Care Can Be a Battle." www.ap.org. 2011. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 13 May 2013. Williams‚ Carol J. "The Veterans Administration Does Not Provide Proper Services for PTSD." Do Veterans Receive Adequate Health Care? Ed. Susan
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describe a condition that has been observed in war veterans for centuries. In Achilles in Vietnam‚ Jonathan Shay studied veterans of the Vietnam War with PTSD and explained the similarities between these veterans and Achilles in the book The Iliad. PTSD is triggered by traumatic events that result in symptoms that can lead to very bad behavioral problems. Without proper awareness and understanding of how to identify and treat the disorder‚ many veterans will have difficulty functioning normally in society
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Inspired by the Works of Tim O’Brien Tim O’Brien is a veteran of the Vietnam War and is the author of such novels as The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato. In his novels‚ O’Brien talks about in great depth of the horrors of the Vietnam War. Soldiers returning home from Vietnam had a hard time adapting to civilian life. Some veterans thought they were fighting in the war while at home. Many were later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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O’Brien beautifully details the war zone and its aftereffects on specific veterans in The Things They Carried. Some war veterans leave their respective battle with war stories and life lessons to tell‚ but others leave empty-handed with an empty soul. Despite remedies recently implanted for veterans‚ 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
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Argue the military needs to provide required treatment and screening for our military veterans. What is PtsdExposure to a traumatic event in which the person Experienced‚ witnessed‚ or was confronted by death or serious injury to self or others and Responded with intense fear‚ helplessness‚ or horror Features Appear in 3 clusters: re-experiencing‚ avoidance/numbing‚ hyperarousalLast for 1 month Cause clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning Re-experiencing Recurrent distressing
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Military Veterans face many life changing stressors while away on active duty as well as when they return home. To cope with the stress‚ drugs and alcohol become a way to self-medicate and cover the unseen pain. Substance abuse‚ because of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)‚ is a coping mechanism for some of the nation’s Veterans‚ but with proper medical attention‚ treatment is possible. PTSD can occur after a traumatic event‚ in which there are four types of symptoms: reliving the event or
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which makes him a credible source in this topic. Brewster explains In this article how the movement to keep Veterans Affairs district offices open did not work. The defeated motion called for more mental health professionals to help war veterans and to have the government complete nearly a 100 unsolved suicide investigations involving war veterans. The article did a very good job getting first hand comments from soldiers who were disappointed with the
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