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…

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…

PTSD Development among Soldier Families Introduction Background PTSD is a condition that one develops due to a continuous and persistent exposure to a stressing situation. PTSD can affect both children and adults in the family. Some of the situations that can cause PTSD range from…

Billy Pilgrim’s Secrets and Reasoning The story Slaughterhouse Five is a novel that is very different. A book that most people would just pick off of a shelf and read would not even come close to the complexity or ‘originality’ of Slaughterhouse Five. Billy Pilgrim,…

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…

The purpose of this literature review is to examine and evaluate current researchers on Syrian refugee children with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. However, this review will focus on what the barriers of mental health Syrian refugee children face at schools, how Post Traumatic Stress Disorder…

It is most common in many Psychologically unstable teens, to have suffered sexual abuse as an infant or toddler; Causing them to behave in peculiar ways. Then as adults these teens, they cope with life in unhealthy patterns due to their lack of cognitive thinking….

Stress is commonly viewed as the brain’s response to a demand or a challenge. These stimuli are referred to as stressors and can be real or perceived. Not all stress is bad, as it is needed for survival and to be kept out of harm’s…

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…

Modern analysis concerning trauma can be found in psychoanalysis as much as in psychology, history and the arts. The question to be asked is: “Does trauma require a cathartic release, specifically one offered through performance?” Nonetheless, is it possible through Greek drame to heal wounds…

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…

The topic of this research paper is how body based therapies can help change the way the brain and body function because of trauma. Working with people who have trauma histories has opened up a whole new way of thinking about how to help them…

When talking about trauma theory, it is necessary to look back at the theories that have been proposed by Sigmund Freud and his systematic investigation on trauma which dates to the end of the nineteenth century. This throwback is important because Freud was the one…

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…

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…