Essays on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Introduction PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is defined as a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event. Whether it be something that happened personally, or something witnessed, it is very common that almost everyone in their life will go through some sort of…

Typically when we consider “PTSD,” our psyches bounce to those who’ve been in battle. While it is absolutely an issue for those who’ve been, all things considered, battle regions, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD isn’t only select to war veterans. Truth be told,…

The Impact of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926) “All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation…You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.” ― Gertrude Stein According to the…

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric health condition that occasionally develops in people after they experience a life-threatening or alarming situation. PTSD was formerly known as ‘shell shock’ or ‘combat stress’ and the diagnoses was limited to those who had developed the disorder from…

Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from the Cognitive Approach to Personality POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER Post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is a mental health disorder that is triggered by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic life event (NIMH, n.d.). It is known to particularly affect combat…

The traumatic event for the primary survivor, Joy Newsome, was abduction and being forced into captivity for seven years, where she lived in one small ten by ten shed. The trauma, was prolonged, multiple, and repeated where she was confined and left to her own…

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is the response an individual has following the events of an extremely traumatic experience that caused life threatening harm to themselves or someone they are close to. Over the past 40 years, the study of PTSD has progressed and found…

Andy, a previous fire officer, was attending to a house that had caught fire and it was his duty to remove the remains of the three people who had passed away there. A couple of days later he had become ‘distressed, started crying and feeling…