Identifying Factors Associated With Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms ( Ptss )

Today, 42.5 million Americans suffer from a mental illness. There are many different types of mental illnesses that affect over half of the population. Some are more severe than others, but still equally important. Two of the common disorders you hear about today are Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

America the beautiful, land of the free, but at what cost is that freedom attained? Freedom is usually attained through war and suffering. Many soldiers lose their lives fighting for their country. Even though many returned physically healthy, some of the men and women are fighting a new battle on the home front of their own minds. Living with something as mentally tormenting as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is something many veterans have to deal with on a daily basis. Not only do these men and women have to deal with the regret of their own actions, but they have to deal with the horrible treatment of those around them. They are living a life of torture knowing there is no cure; however, some people have found natural and positive ways to treat the symptoms. Even though many skeptics believe this disorder doesn’t exist, tests have been run proving the nightmare is as deep as

Being a soldier requires a lot of physical and mental prowess that not everybody possesses. Even the most skilled soldiers can have psychological problems when returning from deployment. They go through extremely stressful situations that affect their mental health in many ways. This causes many of them to have post traumatic stress disorder which can lead to things like suicide. Experiences they encountered while being deployed determines the severity of the disorder. These experiences can range from getting shot at to not having trust in the system.

When a person suffers or endures an extremely tragic event in their life, they can end up suffering from Post Traumatic Stress ( Disorder), or PTS(D . PTS(D) is “ an anxiety disorder that may develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which severe physical harm occurred or was threatened” (Psychology Today). When coming back from war, Many people suffer from Survivor's guilt, a mental condition where someone thinks they have done something wrong by surviving a tragic event that someone else did not.(The evolution of mental disturbances in the concentration camp syndrome). As well as Survivor’s guilt, people also can suffer from extreme depression. When people become depressed, one of the

Our most vivid memories are those tied with strong emotional memory components. For those suffering from Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder (PTSD), the emotional component of a memory makes recalling certain life events painful and debilitating. PTSD is an anxiety disorder that develops from the exposure to a traumatic event and often seen in comorbid patients also afflicted with alcoholism, depression, and general anxiety. Because this disorder is so debilitating, finding prevention treatments becomes essential to ensuring the mental health of so many individuals world-wide.

A way to describe this condition would be a mental and emotional stress happening due to the cause of a prior history of mental illness or a dramatic psychological shock. Some examples of a PTSD situation would be coming back from military warlike soldiers, death in the family, or for me, a motor vehicle accident in a head-on collision in a passenger seat. Everyone came out perfectly safe from the car accident with minor injuries. The aftermath of the accident is what changed my life. According to the National Center for PTSD, “there are five main types of posttraumatic stress disorder which include the following: normal stress response, acute stress disorder, uncomplicated PTSD, comorbid PTSD, and complex PTSD” (National Center). I suffer

According to a study done by the Nebraska Department of Veteran Affairs, “An estimated 7.8 percent of Americans will experience PTSD at some point in their lives, with women (10.4%) twice as likely as men (5%) to develop PTSD”. The common reasons for men to get PTSD is rape, combat exposure, childhood neglect, and childhood physical abuse. Women are more susceptible to PTSD because of rape, sexual molestation, physical attack, being threatened with a weapon, and childhood physical abuse. In 2013, the Boston marathon was bombed and 3 people died and over 200 were injured. Only a minority of people who were exposed to this attack as well as the subsequent manhunt and city wide shut down, will develop PTSD because the brain has other ways to heal itself. Some might develop relatively temporary anxiety and/or depression for example, they may have “survivor’s guilt”. Where the person who goes through a life-threatening experience and lives becomes depressed because he/she believes that they should not have been the one to live or they feel like it might be their fault that they were the ones to cause the incident in the first place. But for most, they will have the usual emotional response but will not have any illness at all. The most common place most people hear about PTSD might be from the news when they talk about the soldiers who come back from war. A study by the RAND Center for Military Policy Research shows that, out of 2.7 million Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans, more than 20% of veterans will be diagnosed with PTSD or have signs of PTSD. Out of those 20%, studies show that 5% to 50% of veterans will not seek out treatment and those who do only report “minimally adequate” treatment

As a child, I had to deal with the lack of parental presence because my parents worked nonstop to make ends meet. Because I lacked guidance, school became dreadful. I had no friends, and dealt with anxiety. I experienced bullying, for being too “skinny” as my anxiety had led me to develop an eating disorder. I was diagnosed with anemia by Kindergarten, but I did not receive treatment.

PTSD or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a growing concern with our returning soldiers. As technology is advancing, battles are becoming more and more gruesome. The scars from defending your country are not only physical. Some scars may not be visible, but are even more dangerous. The trauma imbedded in these men and women’s heads will cause pain for them and their entire family.

“Although combat increases the rate of PTSD, it is not clear that the severity of combat-related PTSD differs from PTSD associated with other traumatic experiences. Some data suggest that combat may be associated with greater severity. For example, combat veterans with PTSD tend to have more intrusive and/or hypervigilant symptoms than people with PTSD from other causes. Sleep-related symptoms may be greater in combat veterans with PTSD. On the other hand, some types of noncombat trauma may increase the severity of PTSD, such as torture or sexual assault. Some data suggest that the course of PTSD tends to occur independently of the traumatic precipitant. A common flaw is that these comparisons of PTSD course and severity rely on meta-analyses of

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a trauma-based mental disorder which could occur at any time throughout an individual’s life once a trauma is experienced, observed, or learned. The PTSD diagnosis is the culmination of a traumatic event in which the individual begins to have adverse symptoms such as emotional distress, hypervigilance, avoidance, concentration issues, anger, and uncontrollable negative thoughts about themselves and the world around them. The individual’s sense of significance, mastery, and formed attachments become compromised by their response to the trauma (American Psychiatric Association & American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

Tests have shown around 50% of soldiers have a mental disorder or have been mentally affected by war. 14% of soldiers are suicidal. Think about that, someone risking their lives for their people and saving lives, Is willing to take their own life because of the mental impact of war.

When working with service members and assessing them for diagnosis, it is important to have an understanding of the diagnosis and the impact it has on the military population. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most common mental health diagnosis veterans may develop after experiencing trauma. PTSD can occur after an individual has been through a traumatic event, such as combat exposure, terrorist attack, sexual or physical assault, or serious accidents. According to The Department of Veteran Affairs, “About 11-20 out of every 100 Veterans (or between 11-20%) who served in Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF) or Enduring Freedom (OEF) have PTSD in a given year” (2015).

Many individuals tend to experience a traumatic event that will change their entire lives short-term or long-term wise. Exposure to traumatic events are more common in military veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. By becoming exposed to the harsh conditions of a war-zone, such as violence or bloodshed, military veterans evoke a psychological response known as the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The common symptoms of PTSD tend to be aggressiveness, disturbances in sleep, and or paranoia. PTSD has the ability to severely damage the emotional and mental well-being of an individual. Not only that, but it also affects the way how one behaves around others. At times, PTSD and its severity goes unnoticed. This is a major reason as to why this topic will be explored in this paper. It is to bring awareness and urge the importance to go through treatments to cure

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, also known as PTSD, is a mental disorder that is becoming very common within our society and our world. PTSD is known to bring on a set of psychological and physical symptoms, by experiencing traumatic events such as warfare, sexual assault, traffic collisions, and more. The majority of people that suffer from the disorder usually recover fairly soon, within the next few months of being diagnosed, but of course, there are so many people where the mental disorder of PTSD, clings onto them for the rest of their lives. PTSD is a crippling mental disorder, that is more common and relevant than ever before.