Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) In Veterans

I am investigating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) in veterans and how it can be treated. PTSD has been around since the world's very first conflicts, but it wasn’t until the 1900’s that is was medically recognized as a Mental disorder. The amount of veterans suffering from this disorder without treatment is un-imaginable. Often times veterans refuse to seek treatment for this disorder because they are afraid of the consequences of treatment. Veterans wouldn’t need to be treated if we take care of the problem before they come home. We train them for war, so why not train them to come home?
"Alternative Treatments for PTSD." Gale Student Resources in Context, Gale, 2014. Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/OLCXYU147774022/SUIC?u=coll72001&xid=8f8d3b84.
"Our Lonely Society Makes It Hard to Come Home from War." TED Talk. Nov. 2015. Web. 31 Mar. 2017. Sebastian Junger, in the speech “Our Lonely Society Makes It Hard to Come Home from War” talks about the difficulties veterans face when they arrive home. According to Junger, 50% of veterans file for PTSD compensation upon returning home. But only 10% of the military is actively engaged in combat. That means that only 40% of veterans were traumatized over sea’s. Junger takes a step back and looks at Post traumatic Stress Disorder in a different perspective. Junger claims, “Maybe it’s not what happened out there, but the kind of society you come back to”. You are eight times more likely to suffer from depression if you live in a modern society. We live in a very alienating and isolating society that makes it hard for veterans to come home to. After 9/11 the murder rate in New York City went down forty percent. After 9/11 PTSD symptoms went down. The idea of one traumatized person living by himself is scary, but if you traumatize a whole community, we come together. At the end of Junger’s speech he says, “Sometimes we ask ourselves if we can save the vet’s, I think the real question is can we save ourselves?” Junger’s purpose of this speech is to inform and motivate our society to come together if not for themselves, for the men and women who fought for this
"Multiple Deployments Contribute to Suicide Among Veterans." Veterans, edited by Dedria Bryfonski, Greenhaven Press, 2015. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010686244/OVIC?u=coll72001&xid=07aa4ac5. Accessed 7 Apr. 2017. Originally published as "US Military Struggling to Stop Suicide Epidemic Among War Veterans," Guardian, 1 Feb. 2013. In this article Libby Busbee shares her son's tragic story. Her son, William Busbee, served three year long tours in Afghanistan before retiring from the military. When he arrived home he wasn’t the same person he was when he left. William once said to his mother, “You would hate me if you knew what I’ve done out there.” He had nightmares frequently and eventually began sleeping in the closet for a better sense of security. On one occasion William was so startled that he lept out of a moving vehicle after a nearby train sounded its horn. On the date of March 20th, 2012, William Busbee locked himself in his car and shot himself in the head. Opposing Viewpoints in Context states that “In 2012, for the first time in at least a generation, the number of active-duty soldiers who killed themselves, 177, exceeded the 176 who were killed while in the war zone”. This article shows the tragic reality of a traumatized veteran and the shocking