this disorder has truly affected our troops. Most veterans are not open about their condition‚ however some have accepted it and open up about it. So‚ how much does PTSD really affect someone? The trauma that causes PTSD is just as unique as the suffering individual themselves. Any fearful trauma can produce symptoms of PTSD. Being in the Vietnam War did not help any of this. These soldiers were torn away from the only things and the home they had ever known and dropped into a foreign place where
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Romaniv 1 Sergey Romaniv Instructor: William S. Durden English 102 17 May 2014 Military Veterans Face An Uphill Battle Against PTSD Everyone at some point in their life will experience a traumatic event. As many as 20% will develop some sort of PTSD. What is PTSD? It is an acronym that is used quite frequently in the past decade‚ so what does it denote? Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is caused when a person experiences a dangerous event. When a person
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will describe how I will use psychology in my life and career. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD) is defined as Delayed stress reaction in which an individual involuntarily reexperiences emotional‚ cognitive‚ and behavioral aspects of past trauma (Zimbardo‚ Johnson‚ Weber‚ 2006). The article I read about PSTD discussed the difference in the prevalence of PTSD symptoms in firefighters that work in the United States and Canada (Corneil‚ Beaton‚ Murphy‚ Johnson‚ Pike‚ 1999). The side effects
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The researchers said that “The goal of the present study was to administer a series of trauma probes to a community sample of men and women‚ to determine the rates of full and partial PTSD‚ and to examine in a preliminary fashion the extent to which these two presentations of posttraumatic stress are associated with functional impairment or
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soldiers are children who are forced to serve as soldiers in armed conflicts. These child soldiers had to do many things that should have never been done. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because their rights are being violated in many ways‚ the trauma they had to go through caused life threatening mental problems and survival for a child soldier took violence.
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Is it Possible to Oversimplify Tragedy? Everyone knows or has experienced a tragedy in their life. Tragedies happen all around the world and each person may experience the same type of tragedy‚ for example‚ hurricanes‚ tornadoes‚ tsunamis‚ car accidents‚ the 9/11 attack‚ or even death. Deepak Chopra tells his opinions about reactions to a tragic event in his article “After tragedy‚ brain needs to heal”. He lets the readers know his thoughts and feelings about how there are only two reactions to
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psychology where the lessons of personality‚ organizational and abnormal psychology among others are applied to the needs or desires of military planners and strategists. Reasons for their application may be immediate or sustained. The application of psychological research or theory to the military can be used to analyze either enemy or friendly forces‚ exemplified by perfecting an attack on an enemy or strengthening the weakness of an ally. By extension‚ military psychology could be used to examine the
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be excluded from society. Some people do surprisingly choose to be homeless. Others choose to be homeless because they can not live within a "normal" society. For example‚ veterans might have to turn to the streets because they couldn’t escape the trauma and couldn’t live a normal life with all of the troubles they endure day to day. There are some homeless people "...who no longer want help‚ who no longer recognize the need for help‚ and whose experiences in our world has
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Fear. An emotion we all dread to experience. The definition itself sounds unpleasant‚ “an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that something is dangerous‚ likely to cause pain‚ or a threat’ (Merriam-Webster). Danger‚ pain‚ and threat‚ these aren’t words that would attract most people to an experience. Fears come in all shapes and sizes‚ even animals have fears‚ it’s a basic instinct that all creatures have to identify threats in order to survive. Without fears we would not be able to process
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Cindy started engaging in reckless behavior‚ along with lying compulsively‚ and drinking. Cindy married at a young age of 22. However‚ shortly after her marriage she began having an affair with one of her coworkers. Her affair led thoughts of her trauma‚ which led her to end the affair and get help for her rapes. A) STRESSFUL EVENTS THAT QUALIFY (GIVE REASONS) Cindy was tormented and raped for 5 weeks by someone she trusted. She was traumatized by being raped and never told her family because
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