Ptsd Case Studies

"Post Traumatic Stress Disorder." Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2007. Web. 07 Apr. 2014.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has severely affected the lives of countless military veterans throughout the years. Consequently, there likely are many more PTSD cases that exist and go unreported, or misdiagnosed due to misconceptions when reported (Samuelson, Bartel, Jordan, & Valadez, 2017). To this extent, I am going to discuss my views on two articles. The first article explains the patient’s perceptions of PTSD symptoms. The second article explains the effects of performing Yoga as an unconventional form of treatment for PTSD patients. Each study was conducted on the men and women veterans of our Armed Forces. As citizens of the United States of America, we owe the Armed Forces a debt of

Christine Jessop was a nine year old girl who after bring dropped off by the school bus at her home in Queensville decided to ride her bike to the park nearby to meet with her friends. After stopping to buy some gum at the local store she was last seen walking her bike up her driveway by her friend Kim Warren. She did not keep her appointment with her friend at the park, and would never be seen alive again (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). This small town instantly became involved in the search for the missing girl, but with very little evidence to go on time passed, and hope began to diminish for the safe return home of Jessop. On New Year’s Eve 1984, eighty-nine days after Jessop went missing, her body was found badly decomposed in a bush by Fred Patterson fifty-five kilometers from Queensville. An autopsy would later revival that she was raped and mutilated (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). The police still did not have a suspect in the case nor did they have any leads, but now that her body was found the police and the small town were the topic of media, increasing pressure

In the realm of psychology, the field of abnormal psychology has always proven to be a challeng-ing one for the psychologists because of two reasons. First, this branch as the name suggests deals with the abnormal and aberrant population of the society and understands their behaviors and emotions that in some ways vary from the social norms so the results obtained from a research cannot be generalized. Second, the medication of the patient is purely based on the symptoms that they exhibit or report. Sometimes the feelings described by the patients might not satisfy the standard criteria outlined by the Diagnostic Manual . This might lead to a delay in medication. One such abnormal psychological disorder that came into limelight after Vietnam War is Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) .

PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a mental health condition that can occur after a person experiences a traumatic event such as disasters, assault or combat. This is an issue that many Veterans encounter while being involved in military duty. However, there is help available.

A study in 2008 showed that about 300,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffer from PTSD or major depression, and about 320,000 may have experienced at least a mild concussion or brain injury in combat (Zoroya). American society is witnessing a hasty rise in the need for treatment of PTSD for returning soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Most of have heard the term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. The Nebraska Department of Veterans Affairs estimate that 7.8 percent of Americans will experience PTSD at some point in their lives. We commonly associate PTSD with soldiers who have fought in wars. About 30 percent of the men and women who have spent time in war zones experience PTSD. (Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs. (2007). No one is immune to it. Other traumatic events can also cause PTSD. The general knowledge required to understand PTSD include: The definition, possible causes, symptoms and current treatment options. Learning these you will be able to come up with a treatment plan to help your clients.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is described as a type of anxiety disorder that can occur after experiencing a traumatic event that causes extreme emotional trauma. This emotional trauma is more often than not contributed to a fear of injury or death to either oneself or others. It is currently projected that one in three returning military service members will suffer from PTSD. Along with the rise in PTSD the suicide rate for military service members and veterans has increased astronomically with an average of 22 suicides per day. With so many of the nation’s veterans suffering from this disorder it has become the center for research and studies within the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). The focal point of this research being how to improve PTSD sufferer’s quality of life and if it is possible to prevent PTSD altogether.

"Not long ago, most therapists who heard a story like Albert Grow's would have thought about what his experience in Vietnam did to his relationship with his family, his community and his sense of self. Few would have given much thought to what it did to his biochemistry. That is about to change. Grow, a policeman in Salem, New Hampshire, came back from Vietnam nearly 30 years ago on a "freezer flight"--a transport plane piled with body bags. At the Boston airport, a woman called him trash and spit in his face. Not long afterward, he punched out two coworkers in a photo lab because they wore black arm bands to honor the Vietnamese dead. After a brief stay on a psychiatric ward, he burned his Marine uniform in his parents' backyard. He avoided

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

The title of my article is: The Impact of Addiction Medications on Treatment Outcomes for Persons With Co-Occurring PTSD and Opioid Use Disorders. The authors of this article are: Elizabeth C. Saunders, Mark P. McGovern, Chantal Lambert-Harris, Andrea Meier, Bethany McLeman, Haiyi Xie. This article appeared in: The American Journal on Addictions in 2015.

In August of 2010, I had the pleasure of meeting Patrick . Amongst the plethora of people milling about the meet and greet of the college circle we shook hands and exchanged pleasantries. Patrick had the face of someone who had seen more of the world than most of the 18 and 19-year-olds present and during the course of our conversation he told me that he had just returned from Afghanistan, a transfer from being a non-commissioned officer (NCM) member of the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) to a student at the Royal Military College (RMC), intent on becoming an officer.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that can occur after a traumatic event, such as a threat to life, serious injury, or sexual violence. Some people who experience these types of events may develop PTSD. Sometimes, PTSD can occur in people who hear about trauma that occurs to a close family member or friend. PTSD can happen to anyone at any age.

The existing work and research that is currently available with regards to the relation between posttraumatic stress disorder, and substance use, seems to suggest that these two are inherently related to one another. While analyzing these findings, a general pattern throughout the concluding points of the research seemed to suggest that, --as a general take-away, although no direct causal relationships between PTSD and substance use have been made—often the two are interconnected and simultaneously present in military personnel. With the knowledge that those individuals within the military typically suffer with PTSD and are at an extreme risk of also experiencing other comorbid substance use disorders, we can see that this research has implications

According to a Tanielian and Jaycox (2008) study, as of September 2014 there were approximately 2.7 million American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars”. Of the 2.7 million at least 20% of the veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan wars obtained PTSD and/or depression. However, it was noted that when interviewed, the military counselors stated that they believe that the percentage rate of veterans with PTSD was much higher. The number is said to continue to increase when combined with traumatic brain injury (TBI).