Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is often associated with individuals who have served active duty in as a soldier in combat. Veterans who have returned from the war have endured psychological issues causing them to seek professional assistance. PTSD has a past that is as long and momentous as the world’s war history - thousands of years. Although, the diagnosis has not been around for that long, different names and symptoms of PTSD always have been. The physical symptoms of PTSD include but are not limited increased blood pressure, extreme heart rate, hasty breathing, muscle stiffness, sickness, diarrhea, problems with vision, speech, mobile disorders, convulsive vomiting, cardiac tremors, trembling or spasms, …show more content…
This condition not only affects the individual, but their families and people in the community are affected in some way as well. Studies have shown that many veterans’ lives change for the worse because of the traumatic experiences that were encountered while in combat.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychological disorder that may develop in people after a horrifying experience. This is an immense reaction to dangerous anxiety. There are many reasons, indications, and treatments for PTSD. There are numerous causes this illness has, which includes: returning out of war, being sexually assaulted, or attacked, child manipulation, ordinary tragedies, vehicle accidents, and even people who witness disturbing events could develop this …show more content…
Amid the most predominant is post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), approximately 1/6 veterans of OEF/OIF meeting the screening standards (Seal, Bertenthal, Miner, Sen,&Marmar, 2015). Outside the influence on daily life, veterans who display positive for PTSD are four times as expected to report suicidal ideation as their peers without PTSD. Furthermore if a veteran experienced a co-occurring sickness in addition to PTSD, their risk amplified to 5.7 times more probable than non-PTSD peers (Jakupcak, Cook, Imel, Fontana,Rosenheck & McFall,