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    research conducted by insert names here, pre-employment personality traits can easily predict posttraumatic stress symptoms among firefighters and military as the symptoms develop. Job duration and heightened level of emotional stress are also predicting traits among experienced firefighters. Police officers are considered a high-risk group where definite identifying predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder are present. Predictors that were included in the study were the following variables: intrusions

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    Acute Stress Disorder “Acute Stress Disorder is characterized by the development of severe anxiety, dissociative, and other symptoms that occurs within one month after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor (e.g., witnessing a death or serious accident). As a response to the traumatic event, the individual develops dissociative symptoms. Individuals with Acute Stress Disorder have a decrease in emotional responsiveness, often finding it difficult or impossible to experience pleasure in previously

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    Behavioral changes in veterans caused by PTSD Posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD is a form of mental and emotional stress that has been brought on by traumatic events that have taken place in a person’s life. PTSD comes with many kinds of effects some including high-risk behaviors, aggression and shame, sleep disturbances, and attachment(Barr, Kintzle, Sullivan, Castro, 2017; Martindale, Morissette, Rowland, Dolan, 2017; Haller, Norman, Angkaw, 2016; Renaud, 2008). These all are causes of behavioral

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    traumatic events are more common in military veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. By becoming exposed to the harsh conditions of a war-zone, such as violence or bloodshed, military veterans evoke a psychological response known as the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The common symptoms of PTSD tend to be aggressiveness, disturbances in sleep, and or paranoia. PTSD has the ability to severely damage the emotional and mental well-being of an individual. Not only that, but it also affects the way

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    Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (also known as PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that results from a traumatic event where there was potential or real danger and death. Anxiety disorders are mental disorders characterized by intense or inappropriate amounts of fear or dread. This particular category of mental disorders is one of the most common, but unfortunately anxiety disorders often go undiagnosed, which can result in “enormous and monetary costs.” Indeed, sufferers of PTSD have chronic and intense

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    Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder dates back to the war days. Although having this disorder was never documented it was seen in many soldiers during and after the war. The disorder didn’t have an official title. It was known as “shell shock”, “exhaustion” and “battle fatigue.” The disorder affected many soldiers during wars, not only physically but also their reputation. Many soldiers would have emotional breakdowns due to the disorder and some would flee the front lines

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    Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, affects many of our nation’s veterans. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that in the Vietnam War, almost thirty-one percent of its veterans, when they came back to the United States, developed PTSD. In recent history, eleven percent of veterans from the Afghanistan War and twenty percent of veterans from the Iraqi War have developed PTSD after arriving back in the states. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, though brought into the light recently

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    Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is described as a mental condition that results in a series of emotional and physical reactions in individuals who have either witnessed or experienced a traumatic event in their life. The person experiencing or witnessing this traumaticevent may feel intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is defined as an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders cover different forms of abnormal, pathologicalanxiety, fears, phobias and nervous

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    Currently, the DSM-5 characterizes posttraumatic stress disorder as a disorder in which clients respond with heightened arousal and reactivity to repeatedly experienced or revisited traumatic situations (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Individuals who have persistently witnessed or been a victim of great violence, such as military veterans or victims of domestic abuse, often develop PTSD as a result of their experiences. A population that has been largely overlooked in terms of their rates

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    terrorises me at night. If you have a nightmare where your friends are being blown up, you relive these things over and over and over again.” These are the words from Pte Leroy Risi who was stationed in Afghanistan and is now struggling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jump anxiety, or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. Another war vet Vaughan Cook who also has PTSD

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