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In six pages this paper considers PSTD’s impact upon soldiers with families, relationships, memories, and society among the topics discussed. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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was finally renamed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Regardless of what it has been called through the years, this malady "has been around for as long as men have been
killing one another" (McGirk, 2009, p. 40). The official definition of PTSD is, "a psychological reaction that occurs after experiencing a highly stressing event... that is usually characterized by
depression, anxiety, flashbacks, recurrent nightmares, and avoidance of reminders of the event" (as cited in Shea-Porter, 2009, p. 235). Its symptoms are many, and include alcohol and substance abuse,
depression, emotional detachment, mood swings, violence, and nightmares (McGirk, 2009). The mental systems were described by one military physician as "going from zero to combat speed in nothing flat"
(McGirk, 2009, p. 40). Dr. Matthew Friedman, who is Director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD, contends that soldiers who are deployed into combat
multiple times are going to exhibit symptoms of PTSD (McGirk, 2009). As one Navy SEAL observed, "Training inoculates you against trauma. The first time you see someone dead,
its a shock. By the 10th time, youre walking over dead bodies and making sick jokes about what they had for breakfast. But all that stress accumulates" (McGirk,
2009, p. 40). With lengthy tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, PTSD is unfortunately becoming the rule rather than the exceptions for battle-weary soldiers, and the effects of
which are not limited to the soldiers themselves, but also influences relationships, families, memories, and social interaction. Since the so-called war on terror, there have been in excess of 1.6
million members of the U.S. armed forces deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan (Lafferty, Alford, Davis, & OConnor, 2008). A large percentage of National Guard (nearly 250,000) and Reserve (close
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