Ptsd: Causes & Effects in Soldiers
P.T.S.D: Causes & Effects in SoldiersShane WhiteMiller-Motte CollegeRunning head: PTSD: CAUSE AND EFFECT IN SOLDIERS
Post traumatic stress disorder has many effects on people in everyday life; such as the effects in family, friends, and even their career.
Post traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is quite common in today's military. The reason for this can somewhat be explained in the definition of ptsd: The type of anxiety disorder that comes from an event in which you've seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. Our soldiers, while they are deployed, are faced with that potentially fatal threat everyday overseas. This is why ptsd is most common in soldiers; however their are a number of cases of ptsd in civilians too. According to the American journal of epidemiology, 95.6% of survivors from the 9/11 attack reported at least 1 current post traumatic stress symptom after fleeing the building that day. Ptsd is often diagnosed after someone has been raped; which accounts for the highest reason why civilians develop ptsd (according to The economist). Ptsd can also come from being involved in a near death car accident, or when a soldier goes face to face with “potential death.”
With all of these causes that ptsd can come from you might be asking yourself “what are the effects of ptsd?” Ptsd effects your family, friends, and career alike, it depends on the person. The most common effect in people's family who's diagnosed with ptsd include spousal and child abuse. This occurs because these people diagnosed are so stressed out to the point that one little thing can set them off, and in turn, cause them to do something they would not normally do. They're like ticking time bombs with a very short fuse. Ptsd also has a significant effect on your friends as well. If you're a walking ticking time bomb do you really think your friends will want to hang out with you? Especially if they witness the way you treat your
Post traumatic stress disorder has many effects on people in everyday life; such as the effects in family, friends, and even their career.
Post traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is quite common in today's military. The reason for this can somewhat be explained in the definition of ptsd: The type of anxiety disorder that comes from an event in which you've seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. Our soldiers, while they are deployed, are faced with that potentially fatal threat everyday overseas. This is why ptsd is most common in soldiers; however their are a number of cases of ptsd in civilians too. According to the American journal of epidemiology, 95.6% of survivors from the 9/11 attack reported at least 1 current post traumatic stress symptom after fleeing the building that day. Ptsd is often diagnosed after someone has been raped; which accounts for the highest reason why civilians develop ptsd (according to The economist). Ptsd can also come from being involved in a near death car accident, or when a soldier goes face to face with “potential death.”
With all of these causes that ptsd can come from you might be asking yourself “what are the effects of ptsd?” Ptsd effects your family, friends, and career alike, it depends on the person. The most common effect in people's family who's diagnosed with ptsd include spousal and child abuse. This occurs because these people diagnosed are so stressed out to the point that one little thing can set them off, and in turn, cause them to do something they would not normally do. They're like ticking time bombs with a very short fuse. Ptsd also has a significant effect on your friends as well. If you're a walking ticking time bomb do you really think your friends will want to hang out with you? Especially if they witness the way you treat your
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