Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Analysis

Post-traumatic stress disorder abbreviated PTSD is a response to traumatic events in someone’s life. Traumatic events are events that provoke fear, helplessness or horror in response to a threat or extreme stressor (Yehuda, 2002). Soldiers and other military members are at a much higher risk to Post traumatic stress disorder due to combat and other stressful situations they are put into. People effected by Post-traumatic stress disorder will have symptoms including flashbacks, avoidance of things, people or places that remind them of the traumatic event. Also, hyper arousal which includes insomnia, irritability, impaired concentration and higher startle reactions. In this paper I will discuss post-traumatic stress disorder, its signs, symptom and effects on culture as portrayed in the movie, American Sniper.

"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)" plays an important role in providing information with regard to the disorder and thus makes it possible for readers to gain a more complex understanding of the condition. The article primarily documents the disorder's background, the prevalence with which it happens, and reasons why individuals come to suffer from the condition. By emphasizing that PTSD is practically the body's attempt to raise a person's awareness concerning the gravity of the situation that he or she has been in, the article makes it possible for readers to understand that one of the best way to fight the condition's harmful effects would be for the individual to acknowledge that he or she holds a great deal of power and that it is essential for him or her to make use of that power in order to improve his or her mental health.

Surprisingly it has been shown that women are twice as likely to suffer from PTSD, as are men. (Norris, Fran H.) It is has been suggested that the reason for this discrepancy is that women have a higher instance of being exposed to a qualifying traumatic event. Age also seems to play a role. It seems that as the age of a demographical group increases the likelihood for PTSD decreases.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or as many know by the abbreviation PTSD, is a complex mental issue that affects several every day. People that know of post-traumatic stress disorder tend to connect it to military personnel. In recent years, PTSD has been diagnosed in people who have endured other types of high-stress experiences as well (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)). In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) added PTSD to the third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III). Although PTSD was recognized as a mental disorder in 1980, in the 1800’s doctors began to notice that soldiers were “exhausted” from war and would experience mental shutdowns and similar symptoms of

PTSD was first taken seriously when the Vietnam veterans returned from the war. Combat experience is the most commonly linked to this disorder. However, studies have shown that there are many different causes. These studies were applied to a wide variety of traumas that people have experienced in various horrific events. According to The National Institute of Mental Health, “about 4% of American adults ages 18-54 suffers from PTSD in a given year. These people have served in wars, have been raped or mugged, lived through natural disasters, terrorist attacks or car or plane crashes” (Mitchell). Anyone who experiences an unnerving situation is at risk for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is seen as more of an archaic disorder in the

More women are serving in combat in the United States armed forces than ever before, despite this, there is little research on combat PTSD in women and comparisons of PTSD among men and women as well as how PTSD presents in differing ways in women than to their male counterparts. Post-traumatic stress disorder – more commonly known as PTSD – is most commonly associated with veterans of war and was originally termed shell-shock which was seen as a side effect of war during World War II. Now, scientists understand much more about post-traumatic stress disorder and it has become a treatable psychological disorder. However, as with many other psychological disorders such as depression and schizophrenia, PTSD varies minutely between men and women. (Gilbert, Nock, Schacter, & Wegner, 2015, p. 599-600)

A small group of four people were given the task of finding an answerable question regarding veterans and or PTSD. The group as a whole decided to focus on OIF and OEF veterans with PTSD and substance abuse disorders. This paper will cover the processes of coming to the consensus of which veterans would be the focus, as well as how the answerable question was agreed upon. Also to be covered is the evidence used, how it was found, and the rigor and merit of a study regarding the issue of group work with such a population. The answerable question is: How effective is the Seeking Safety counseling model for group treatment at reducing intrusive symptoms of co-occurring post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder

A study done by the National Institute of Health discusses in an article named “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Evidence Based Research Third Millennium” about the adverse effects of PTSD and the Veteran demographic who have been primarily affected by this medical issue (“Evidence Based PTSD,” 2005). The study/article goes on to explain other demographics of people that have been affected by PTSD like, products of child abuse, products of spousal abuse, products of car accidents or life threatening accidents. The unfortunate stigma of PTSD is that we as a society have only

Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, is a delayed stress reaction in which an individual involuntarily re-experiences emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects of past trauma. An emotional memory contributes to the lasting quality of most traumatic memories. Having lived through a natural disaster, survived a life-threatening accident or witnessed another person being killed or badly injured are traumas described by PTSD victims most frequently. They are different experiences that cause this disorder. In men it’s usually a physical attack, military combat, disaster or fire or being held captive or hostage. For women it would be rape, sexual molestation, physical abuse and neglect during childhood. Women are more than likely to develop

“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).

PTSD was originally conceptualized as a disorder of combat veterans. Unfortunately, societies all over the world are being more and more exposed to war and its effects due to the increase of worldwide terrorism. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (9/11), exemplified a blend of extreme violence and man-made disaster previously confined to the battlefield. For American’s terrorism was a new phenomena that brought the atrocities of war to American cities. It is estimated that over 100,000 people directly witnessed the events of that day, millions more around the world were exposed to horrifying scenes through the media (Perlman, et. al., 2011). The attacks were followed by the continued threat of ensuing attack and the prospect of a global war. Based on data obtained after the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, previously the deadliest act of terrorism in America, it was predicted that in approximately 35 percent of those directly exposed to the 9/11 would develop PTSD (Perlman, et. al., 2011).

A disorder that is discussed in both the textbook and the DSM 5 that was not covered in class is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a disorder that may develop after and individual has experienced or been exposed to extreme trauma. This paper will provide an ABC analysis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; it will also discuss a treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and a critique of the disorder. The ABC analysis looks at antecedents, behaviors and consequences of a particular disorder, in this case PTSD.

Imagine your worst nightmare. Now imagine your worst nightmare relived over and over again, but never being able to get away from the intruding thoughts about it or flashbacks from it. For someone with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, this is the everyday hell that they encounter. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD, is a silent attacker that at one time was thought to only affect soldiers. But after years of research, doctors began to discover that it was not just limited to soldiers. In fact, PTSD affects people from all walks of life- adults as well as children can become victims. Men

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an emotional well-being issue that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, such as combat, a natural disaster, a car accident, or sexual assault. Some common manifestations incorporate, but are not limited to, remembering the event (unwelcome thoughts about the trauma can come up whenever; patients can feel very real and alarming, as if the event is happening again; This is called a flashback), avoiding things that remind the occasion (certain individuals or circumstances), having more negative thoughts and emotions than before (feeling more negative than before the trauma and being unhappy or numb and lose enthusiasm for things that deliver happiness), and feeling