Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: PTSD Kelsey Bridges University of Hawaii at Hilo Post Traumatic Stress Disorder‚ also known as PTSD‚ refers to deep emotional wounds. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories‚ nightmares‚ social withdrawal‚ jumpy anxiety‚ and insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience (Myers‚ 2011). Post Traumatic Stress Disorder categorizes it self as one of the anxiety disorders. Post Traumatic Stress
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history is important because of the serious psychosocial impairments associated with PTSD. We believe after reviewing the intake form with the client‚ we will have an easier process of deciding what the next step is and how to proceed. 2. Oceanside Case Example via “Soft Spots” Recently I had the pleasure of reading “Soft Spots” by former Marine Sgt. Clint Van Winkle. Throughout the reading numerous examples of PTSD were prevalent as he rendered his account of returning home from his deployment in
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deal with on my own was my emotional state. I couldn’t completely understand how someone could be so over powering of another person. It was also very hard for me to grasp how someone could take advantage of someone on the property of somewhere a child or student is supposed to feel secure and safe from harm. I had no one who would listen‚ believe my story‚ or who could truly understand what I was feeling. So began the saga of how I come to believe in myself and know that I would not let someone
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PTSD War will never be pretty or fun. It will always be gruesome and will cause the loss of many lives. Everyone grieves over those lives that were lost‚ but what about the people that live? What about the people that are in the military hospitals who are now amputees? How about the ones that have psychological problems? What about those who have physical and mental issues? People are often not informed of this. One type of a mental disease is known as PTSD‚ there is a cause‚ effects‚ and treatment
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PTSD‚ Trauma‚ and People Kacie D. Buchanan COM/156 April 12‚ 2013 It has been estimated‚ from Michelle Rosenthal (2012)‚ that 70% of all U.S. citizens experience some type of trauma in their life and an estimated 8% have PTSD. War veteran diagnosed PTSD have jumped up 50% in 2012‚ and 1 out of every five veterans that return from Irag are diagnosed with this disorder. It is sad to think of the children that go through trauma‚ but an estimated 15-43% of girls and 14-43%
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whether or not child soldiers should be forgiven for what they have been forced to do. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because‚ they have no control over their life‚ they were under a bad influence‚ and they were forced to fight. Child soldiers should receive amnesty because‚ at a young age these adolescents had no control
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The major conflict that caused the use of child soldiers was the Rwandan civil war in 1994. Rwanda is the country located right next to the Congo. Rwandan Hutu rebels known as Interahamwe fled to the Dominican Republic of the Congo (DRC) after fearing their reprisals for their part in the mass killing of Rwandan Tutsis and joined forces with the Zairian army in 1998 to launch an offensive against the Congolese Tutsis in eastern Zaire. This erupted after the Belgian rule rewarded Tutsis with a Western
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These young innocent children are being turned into child soldiers and forced to drugs and be brainwashed so they stay attached to the rebel army group or the government. They lose their family‚ childhood and forced to handle guns. Imagine if that was you. In some parts of the world such as some parts of Africa‚ Liberia there is a tremendous dispute over should child soldiers be given amnesty. In the first body paragraph‚ child soldiers should be given amnesty because they are forced to fight
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Child Soldiers A lot of poverty stricken countries use children from ages five to seventeen in warfare. They take children from their homes‚ and turn them into deadly killers. When the children come back to their homes‚ they are seen as outcasts and untrustworthy. They have no education‚ or social skills. Using children as soldiers damages learning‚ social skills‚ and how they act later in life. There are more than thirty thousand children around the world that are soldiers (Gettleman). The
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Have you ever wondered what happens to child soldiers after the war ends? People debate on whether they should be postulated for committing war crimes. I think they shouldn’t be prosecuted for what they have done as kids because they were fighting in the war. I personally think that the child soldiers shouldn’t be sent to jail. One of the reasons why child soldiers shouldn’t be sent to jail is because they become brainwashed. They might go into the war knowing right from wrong because they were
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