The Struggle Does Not End When the Combat Does: How are PTSD suffering veterans living when they...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans The Struggle Does Not End When the Combat Does: How are PTSD suffering veterans living when they return home?
The Struggle Does Not End When the Combat Does: How are PTSD suffering veterans living when they return home?
The Struggle Does Not End When the Combat Does: How are PTSD
suffering veterans living when they return home?
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Criteria of Traumatic Event: Intensity/Time Injuries/Losses
Distance Control Support
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Reliving the event Nightmares Flashbacks Change in cognitive
thinking Negative views and perceptions Trust issues Avoidance and
isolation Anything that could remind you of the event Withdrawing
from social relationships Hyperarousal Insomnia, guilt, difficulty
concentrating, hyper vigilance Emotional numbing
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Adjusting to life back at home is a process, not a step Family
and friends have to recognize difference in veterans and understand
Trauma prevents people from having the ability to objectively
evaluate the reality of life All symptoms of PTSD are displayed in
character, conspicuously affecting the people around them Intimacy
is the essence of peace with another person, and therefore finds
itself on the far end of the spectrum from a war zone (Dean,
114).
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Dear Dad, Ive personally blown up five Iraqi tanks in the air
sorties Ive flown over here. Dad, I know there were people inside
those tanks, but I cant afford to think about that right now and
still do my job. I know that when I get home Ill have to face who
was inside those tanks. Im not looking forward to that. ~U.S.
Pilot, Persian Gulf War
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Talking Writing Medication Avoid self-medication Relaxation
Support groups
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Civil War Soldiers heart 44% World War I Shell shock British
Army- 80,000 World War II Combat fatigue 37% Vietnam Revolved
around relaxation therapy Prevalence of PTSD: 31% men; 27% women
Iraq and Afghanistan Wars 4-17%
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