...can't quite put my finger on makes my heart race and puts me back in combat mode. These are just some of the problems soldiers face when they return from war. It is something called PTSD ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). In this paper I will discuss the definition of PTSD, soldiers committing crimes, and suicides after deployment. Also, what kinds of treatments that are out there for soldiers. Finally, we will discuss the struggles of a soldier returning home. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition resulting from exposure to direct or indirect threat of death, serious injury, or a physical threat. Events that can cause PTSD are called "stressors” and may include natural disasters, accidents or deliberate man-made events/disasters, including war. Symptoms of PTSD can include recurrent thoughts of a traumatic event, reduced involvement in work or outside interests, emotional numbing, hyper-alertness, anxiety and irritability. The disorder can be more severe and longer lasting when the stress is human initiated action (example: war, rape, terrorism) (Veterans Affairs.gov 2010). Crime is always high next to a active duty post. It is plain math. You have your normal amount of civilians, and you add the total amount of soldiers to that. The volume of military-related crime off-post is beginning to tax civilian law enforcement authorities. Felony El Paso County jail bookings for service members have...
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...severe depression may choose to make arrangements if they are considering suicide. These arrangements can include care for their family and pets in their absence. 2. Research a disorder associated with stress or mental health. - PTSD A military deployment can take a toll on any given person. The toll can be seen in many different forms such as emotional and mental disorders. These types of disorders can destroy an individual from the inside, out. Now multiply those symptoms by the number of deployments some soldiers have endured and the chance for mental disorders like post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increase drastically. There have been many studies done to determine the correlation between the number of deployments and PTSD. One particular study was conducted with the help of the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery under the Wounded, III, and Injured/Psychological Health/Traumatic Brain Injury Program to determine if the amount of dwell time a soldier has between deployments decreases PTSD. It has been shown by this study and several others that...
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...People who encounter a Tsunami event struggle with psychological problems days and weeks after the traumatic event such as depression and different levels of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Survivors constantly experience feelings of anxiousness and stress because of the fear of danger from another tsunami. Murdered Child – Personal Trauma causing Crisis - Effects on the Survivor The murder of a child can be devastating especially when it’s your own. The hurt and pain can be compound when the death is determined by a heartless human being. Parents and the family faces complicated issues such as trying to understand “why” someone would want to kill their child who they love and will miss. Coping with the “miss” is the challenging part. A parent of a murdered child handles grief differently. Some parents try to continue normalcy while others have extreme difficulty coping with the lost such as obsessive thinking, suicide, anger, fears and anxiety. The hard part is grieving; however; everyone grief’s differently must. Effects on First Responders First Responders are vulnerable to stress and trauma as they are exposed to events every day in their work lives or suddenly one day out of the blue. Even though, they are trained and skilled to handle the consequences of traumatic residual effects, first responders may experience repeated thoughts of the event, avoidance of traumatic calls, physical ailments, stress and anxiety. If the first responder is employed by their country...
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...Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and the Military Tanya Jackson Ener Mid-Continent University PSY 3113Abnormal Psychology December 19, 2011 Abstract Living with PTSD is like waiting for a time bomb to go off. Never knowing what will set it off or how bad it will be. More and more of our military are coming home and being diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, more than ever before and understanding the way this disorder manifest itself is necessary for anyone diagnosed with it or living with someone who is diagnosed with it. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a silent but very deadly reality of war that has captured the attention of the American public especially during this time of war. The men and women that are returning from combat are not the same men and women that we sent into combat. They are coming home forever changed by the violence that they have witnessed and experienced, they will never be the same. Just because they may not have a visible injury does not mean that they are not suffering just as much as the soldier with the missing limb, you do not have to be blown up with and IED to sustain lasting effects from a warzone. Due to the escalated violence in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many soldiers are affected by the violence and the trauma associated with conflict. PTSD is defined in the dictionary as a mental condition that can affect a person who has had a very shocking or difficult experience (such as fighting in a war)...
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...Com/156 | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Persuasive Essay | Individuals suffering from post-dramatic stress disorder (PTSD) could find a great deal of relief in the facilities and support groups available throughout the country. Post-traumatic stress disorder has been an issue haunting Americans for generations; the lack of a viable cure also makes its common existence extremely dangerous. It’s understandable that victims and their family members would do anything to help this terrible mental disorder, and with modern medicine and psychiatric evaluation techniques; a sigh of relief can be taken. For years this condition has been seen a form of mild psychosis rather than a treatable medical condition, the instability involved in the victims of this illness isn’t easily ignored. The world around us is filled with terror and angst, so much that often the human mind tends to bend and break rather than adapt to these wild events. The effects of traumatic events vary from person to person and it isn’t without trail that studies begin to unravel what causes PTSD, and from that moment civilization has been on an evolutionary path to break down and understand what can be done to help. The most common association with PTSD is the mental state of soldiers returning from war, these individuals experience violent and graphic scenarios and often fall victim to instability in the mind. Events like going to prison and domestic abuse are also common factors in the acquisition of PTSD...
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...What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Who is prone to PTSD? And how can one deal with this very unpleasant felling? These are the topics I will be educating you the reader on. I will be discussing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the affects it has on service members, and how to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder And proven methods on how to cope. Post traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that occurs after a traumatic event. Such as; a close encounter with death a violent encounter in which the person was the victim or a women involved in a sexual assault. Mostly I will be hitting on P.T.S.D. With in our armed services. 1.7 million Veterans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at least a third of them suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, or P.T.S.D., according to the National Center for P.T.S.D. Given that combat vets sent to the front lines of Afghanistan and Iraq see fallen comrades, experience combat, and or survive horrific events, the likelihood of a vet being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder is high. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, someone with P.T.S.D. Is at least twice as likely to commit suicide or to sir-come to alcohol abuse. Service members are also likely to develop some type of mood disorder. Veterans are also at a high risk for domestic violence. Their is defiantly a stigma is the services associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. Most vets are scared to come forward with their issues...
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...------------------------------------------------- Stress and Coping This paper defines the theory of stress and coping and applies it to multiple scenarios. Also included are ways the process can be expanded to include those that cannot cope. ------------------------------------------------- Stress and Coping This paper defines the theory of stress and coping and applies it to multiple scenarios. Also included are ways the process can be expanded to include those that cannot cope. Psy. 320 Psy. 320 Stress and Coping The theory chosen for this paper was the stress and coping theory created by Lazarus. Lazarus stated that stress is directly linked to coping. An explanation of the stress and coping theory will be given followed by two real life scenarios. These scenarios will be analyzed for both how they are applicable to this theory and how they are not. These scenarios will be further explored to assess the need to develop and create new theoretical models of motivation in today’s changing work environment, and what the ramification may be for failing to do so. The theory behind stress and coping is one that can be explained better with a series of chained events used to illustrate the process of coping. First there is an influencing factor. This can be personal or situational. This is followed by a primary appraisal. The primary appraisal is how a person deems the situation harmful or harmless. If a person deems the situation as harmless...
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...Kerstin Duncan NRS-433V Introduction to Nursing Research July 7, 2012 Professor Maria Baptiste Violence in the Emergency Department Reference: Gates, D., M., Gillespie, G., L., & Succop, P. (2011). Violence against nurses and its impact on stress and productivity. Nursing Economic$, 29(2), 59-67. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=2010999034&site=ehost-live&scope=site Abstract: XXX The purpose of this study was to examine how violence from patients and visitors is related to emergency department (ED) nurses' work productivity and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). XXX Researchers have found ED nurses experience a high prevalence of physical assaults from patients and visitors. Yet, there is little research which examines the effect violent events have on nurses' productivity, particularly their ability to provide safe and compassionate patient care. XXX A cross-sectional design was used to gather data from ED nurses who are members of the Emergency Nurses Association in the United States. Participants were asked to complete the Impact of Events Scale-Revised and Healthcare Productivity Survey in relation to a stressful violent event. XXX Ninety-four percent of nurses experienced at least one posttraumatic stress disorder symptom after a violent event, with 17% having scores high enough to...
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...Trauma of Shin Dong-hyuk Do you know about North Korean’s political prison camps? Many people might do not know what there are. They have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. But Shin Dong-hyuk did. He was destined to a life of hard labor and an early death. Thinking of love and family were no meaning. He just saw his mother as a competitor for food. He is taught to trust no one, to snitch on everyone and to be loyal only to the guards. When he was 23, Shin managed to evade the guards and crawl through an electrified fence over the dead body of his friend to escape. He found his way to China, then to South Korea and eventually to the U.S. He is the only prisoner born and raised in one of North Korea's prison camps who is known to have escaped. Reporter Blaine Harden has written an account of Shin's journey called Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. Not surprisingly, Shin's PTSD and learned way of life make it very difficult for him to open up and share the brutal details of his life. Not just because he had bad things done to him, but because he believes he did some very bad things himself. Although Shin has physical freedom, he cannot achieve psychological freedom evidenced by his distrust of others, others’ distrust of him, his lacks of loving role models, his shame of surviving Camp 14,...
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...The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Name Professor Course Date The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) refers to the psychiatric disorders that occurs after the victim experiences or witnesses a life-threatening event including the military combat, serious accidents or the sexual assault (Kawakami, 2014). Some survivors of the trauma return to their normal state after some time. However, some victims may exhibit some stress reactions that they cannot solve on their own, which may worsen with time. Such individuals may develop the Posttraumatic disorder. In many instances, the victims of the PTSD relieve their experience through nightmares and flashbacks, making them have sleepless nights and feel estranged. The increased severity of the PTSD symptoms impairs the victim’s daily life and experiences. Social stigma refers to the situation where the members of the society disapprove some people or a group based on some social characteristics held by the victims. The socially disconnected person suffers from the stigma because of such disapprovals. In today’s world, veterans suffer from social stigma when people scapegoat them for executing orders for the decisions they did not make. The society unjustly blames the veterans for executing some atrocities whereas they have the obligation to obey such order without questions (Lee, 2013). Upon their return, the society treats them as social pariahs and attributes them to the deaths inflicted...
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...Darrel Watlington April 1, 2015 Sociology 101 Speaking out for Soldiers Page 1 I have been in the military since 2007 and have witnessed several of my friends change during this time period. I have only one friend who is seeking help for PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) I find it interesting that even though they are suffering they will not seek help. My question is why are most military troops less likely to seek help for PTSD? The mental health in our military troops is becoming more of a concern. It has been found that one in eight US soldiers returning home from either Iraq or Afghanistan has PTSD. The major problem occurring from this is soldier are for one reason or another not seeking any help for this issue. This problem has been going on for as long as there has been war. Fortunately our society is starting to understand the effects war has a a person and are paying more attention to this issue. It is important that our society pay more attention to this problem because their can be lasting negative effects if soldiers do not seek treatment. The short term effects of PTSD are sleeplessness, panic attacks, intense fear, nightmares, self destructive thoughts, and depression. The long term effects of PTSD are subsidence abuse, anger management issues, loneliness, and severe depression. In 2012 the military sent out a survey to military spouses and found out that over sixty...
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...topic in further detail, specifically with her traumatic event with her own personal experience with her car accident as well as losing her father to a car accident. I could always assume that she has chose to cope with the traumatic event of being in the car accident by isolative behavior as well as disengagement from social events with her friends and family; however, this would need to be clarified with her to see if she has any awareness of this unhealthy coping mechanism. I would also need to know more in regards to her head injury-concussion, she had following her car accident to see if her isolation could be due to another medical condition that should be considered. I would need to have a medical exam conducted on Karen before diagnosing her with something that could be explained by a medical condition. 2) Provide your narrative diagnosis of this client, including WHODAS score, with rational. I would diagnose Karen with (309.81) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder due to her meeting the criteria for this disorder. WHODAS score was 2/5 and her Cross Cutting Symptom measure being highest on depression, Anxiety, Repetitive thoughts or behaviors, and personality functioning. My rational for diagnosing Karen with (309.81) Post Traumatic Stress disorder is due to her directly experiencing the traumatic event of being in a car accident (APA, 2013). Karen also experiences recurrent and involuntary memories of the traumatic event when she passes the...
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...the Department of Civil Rights. Many active shooters have behavioral and mental health issues that remain undiagnosed and untreated. The compelling argument is whether violence in the workplace is preventable. Four people were killed and sixteen more were injured on April 2, 2014 when an active shooter opened fire at Fort Hood. The sprawling Army post in Texas was still on edge after a mass shooting there left 13 dead on November 5, 2009. Each time, the active shooters were diagnosed after the fact as having had prior mental conditions. A more proactive approach to recognizing and diagnosing PTSD could greatly minimize the number of active shootings on military installations. Early detection of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) could dramatically minimize the number of active shooter incidents throughout military installations. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is defined as a diagnosis that is fully accepted by the U.S. Veterans Administration, psychiatrists, and the American public. Unfortunately, PTSD does not meet the criteria for a real psychiatric-medical disease. Protocols should be developed to provide immediate post-trauma intervention that addresses each individual’s symptoms. Treatment of concurrent depression, addiction, and other anxiety conditions may be far more valuable than targeting chronic symptoms and...
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...stress disorder more proficiently. Introduction This topic center concerns mental and emotional problems people experience in the wake of 'trauma', where trauma is understood to refer to an event involving being a victim of or witness to atrocity, violence, true horror and/or the death of another or near death of one’s self. Examples might include rape, murder, torture, accidents, terrorism, etc. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) describes two trauma disorders: acute stress disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. In a nutshell, acute stress disorder occurs in the time frame between just after exposure to a traumatic event to six months later, and posttraumatic stress beginning at the six month point and extending thereafter. This paper aim at explaining and exploring the signs, symptoms, treatments and preventions of post traumatic stress disorder. The phenomena of mental...
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...Through the modern age, traumatic events continue to occur with detrimental impacts, from natural disasters to car accidents. A large percentage of those affected by these events experience paranoia and anxiety, which encroach their daily lives and are given the umbrella diagnosis Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). There are many traumatic events that can contribute to PTSD, and finding a successful treatment can pose questions as to what treatment works for most variables. There are key symptoms, or rather clusters that people with PTSD can suffer from. If a person was in a traumatic car accident and is suffering from PTSD symptoms, they may be reliving the events by feeling the same intense fear they had when they experienced the crash....
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