Chad Patterson Ms. Taylor English 1302-06 29 September 2011 PTSD and Iraq Figley‚ Charles harles R.‚ and William William P. Nash. Combat Stress Injury‚ Theory‚ Research‚ And Management. Brunner-Routledge‚ 2007. . This book defines PTSD as a chronic‚ debilitating psychological condition that occurs in a subset of persons who experience or witness‚ life-threatening traumatic events. PTSD is characterized by re-experiencing‚ avoidance‚ and hyperarousal symptoms that occur over time and lead
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Post Traumatic stress disorder or more commonly known as PTSD is a condition triggered by a traumatic event that can cause you to have a series of various symptoms and emotions..The most common symptoms of PTSD are anxiety‚and flashbacks.More severe cases of PTSD can also include avoidance‚dissociation‚hypervigilance‚and even self guilt.PTSD can be brought on by any series of traumatic events including: rape‚combat‚natural disaster‚physical abuse‚or a serious accident‚the list can go on and on.Women
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maintaining its mission of maintaining order‚ protecting property and the use of deadly force. One of our employees‚ Joe who recently returned from a successful two years boots in ground deployment in Afghanistan is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). His mental health provider made this diagnosis along with depression‚ anxiety‚ and anger issues. As the senior person in-charge of Joe‚ I have to make a tough decision whether to recommend if Joe should remain in or resign from the company
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Chapter l INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Being abducted is a traumatic experience that can haunt a victim for the rest of their life while nothing can guarantee a safe outcome. Generally‚ abduction is a political and social weapon as well as a pure crime of violence and intimidation. Its victims seldom retain their life or sanity. In one sense‚ abduction is the ultimate crime. It has the simple‚ indecent clarity of a knife held over the jugular vein. The mere seizure of a victim
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decided to seek professional help. This should never be the case. From day one he should have been aware of the effects that war was going to have on him. From day one he should have know that there was countless others going to suffer the same mental disorders and depression that he was going to. From day one he should have known exactly where to receive help the moment he needed it. The VA can offer all the help it wants‚ but if the soldier himself is in denial about what he is going through‚ the help
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Collective trauma is trauma that happens to large groups of individuals and can be transmitted generationally and across communities. War‚ genocide‚ slavery‚ terrorism‚ and natural disasters can cause collective trauma. Some of the symptoms of collective trauma include rage‚ depression‚ denial‚ survivor guilt and internalized oppression‚ as well as physiological changes in the brain and body which can bring on chronic disease. The social frameworks in which the mass trauma of thousands of people
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avoid situations or places that remind you of the shooting.” I can correlate this example to Post Traumatic Stress disorder‚ because if an individual is affected by a shooting incident this may lead for one to be hesitant in coming back to the same place (for example‚ classrooms or crowded places). Thus‚ shooting in general can affect a person’s ability to function daily‚ if post-traumatic stress syndrome
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Think about tone‚ literary structure‚ specific examples + quotes The Sorrow of War is a semi-autobiographical novel by Bao Ninh‚ in which he implements a non-linear narrative structure to tell his story of his survival from the horrible trenches of the Vietnam War. This book is written in a stream of consciousness with frequent shifts of narrative point of views juxtaposed with descriptions of recent events and of the distant past. Plautus‚ a famous Roman playwright of the old Latin period once
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the human being. If humans were fearless‚ think about how different the human society would be right now. There wouldn’t be any order. There would be people breaking the law and not being afraid of being punished for their actions. It would lead to disorder and lack of authority. Fear is a response for
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THE Social Impact of the Vietnam War Jess Carrignan December 10‚ 2010 A.P. U.S. History Changes in societies have occurred since the very first civilizations and continue to occur today. Each society is a reflection of the art and music‚ as well as the people and their values and beliefs of the people of the time. The social structure of the people is very much shaped by the events that occur during that particular generation. Often in history major events such as wars and natural disasters
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