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Description Post-traumatic stress disorder is when someone has gone through or witnessed a traumatic event and was effected by it. For veterans who struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder normally have had a traumatic event happen while in combat or serving our country. Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder caused from being a veteran are as followed: panic attacks, nightmares, disturbing thoughts, angry outburst, depression, reexperiencing the traumatic event(s), flash-backs, insomnia, exaggerated startle response, hypervigilance, poor concentration, avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event(s), avoidance of feelings or thoughts connected with the traumatic event(s), being extremely aware of surroundings, and sometimes …show more content…

People tend to forget that it is going on when it is not happening outside of their home. The years of 1939 through 1945 was World War II. When the soldiers came home after fighting for our freedom, some came back with visible battle wounds, some with invisible wounds, and some with both. Our freedom has always and will continue to come with a price. For some, that could mean their life, physically and/or emotionally. Some of the World War II veterans came back with the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder but was not treated for it, instead, they all were given a hero’s welcome. Kaiman (2003) writes about World War II veteran Morris Aronson and how “he witnessed six buddies burn to death in an explosion and felt tremendous survivor guilt because his brother downed while drowned while in the military, also in WWII” (p. 37). Veterans tend to acquire post-traumatic stress disorder from having such a strong guilt of be a survivor while they have witnessed their unit member(s) get killed in front of them. Aronson later had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and was then diagnosed with PTSD. He was able to join a group for group therapy with other WWII veterans and he became less anxious and felt less survivor

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