Essays on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The percentage of veterans that come out of the service with a mental illness is about 25 percent. The most common mental illnesses that veteran get diagnosed with are Depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Reading the poem, I concluded that the speaker is...

Trauma is defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. It is something that causes physical, emotional, spiritual, and/or psychological harm. In the past this commonly established stance on trauma has produced little research into the possible positive effects that trauma can have. Following this...

PTSD is becoming a serious problem amongst EMS providers. In fact, since 9-11 the numbers of providers affected has become so large that we are experiencing an all-time high of providers who turn to drugs, alcohol, violence, and even suicide in order to cope with...

Researching the American Civil War soldier and what that soldier encountered during the war requires a good bit of time management, and sometimes a bit of understanding due to the amount of sources that deals with the topic. During the war the average Union and...

The name of the disaster chosen is the attacks that happened on September 11, 2001, also known as 9/11. The attacks happened on American soil in New York City. Nineteen terrorists who were members of an Islamic extremist network, known as Al-Qaeda. This was a...

The impact of physical and psychological turmoil is of profound significance to survivors of both World War I and II. Lasting effects like physical incapacitation and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), completely altered the quality of life soldiers experienced post war, contrasting considerably with their...

In Speak Laurie Halse Anderson creates a fictional character, Melinda Sordino who is struggling to tell her peers and parents about her biggest secret. Melinda is 14 and she is very sensitive and intelligent. Melinda is at a party the summer before her freshman year...

My reaction to the first half of the film was “Oh this is going to be an old timing movie about a writer” but my analysis was somewhat right. When Billy was typing I assumed he was writing a story about times in his life...

In J. D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden, a high schooler from New York narrates his action-packed few days after being “given the ax” by his old school. During this time, we see how Holden views himself and those around him with...

I will be measuring the test concept of Posttraumatic Progress for children and adolescents of the tsunami of 2011 in Japan and the impact that it had on them. Assessing these victims of the tsunami and the bearing they felt in posttraumatic progress, and their...