Post Traumatic Brain Injuries

War can caused many people depression, trauma, disabilities, or even long lasting injuries. The book I will be referring to is called A Long Way Gone “Ishmael Beah”. In Sierra Leone there was a civil war between the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) and government soldiers. Many people in this country were attacked and killed while teens and kids were taken to be soldiers. The book is about a boy named Ishmael Beah and his experience in the war. While looking for his family he is captured by the government to become a soldier and fight against the RUF. Ishmael was both a victim and a victimizer because he had been influenced by government soldiers to do terrible things, and aided them in the fight and killed many people.

When men go off to war to fight for their country they come back different and they are not the same person they were before they left. In the novel "Three Day Road" by Joseph Boyden, it is evident that war has a change on soldiers, as it is seen through the two main characters Xavier and Elijah who go off to fight in World War I. War affects a soldier that goes off to fight in it tremendously. War impacts the emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being of a soldier that goes off to fight in it. This shows that war harms soldiers in many different ways and it changes their lives forever. War effects a person physically, and in this novel is seen through Xavier as he is not the same when he returns home.

Struggles of the Soldier War takes a toll on the mind, body, and soul. Throughout history, the soldier has struggled to push through the barriers war provides. There are records of the soldier’s insanity and suffering dating back to World War I, shown in All Quiet on the Western Front. His comrades are the only ones that understand what he is dealing with, and the soldier feels isolated when surrounded by civilians. It is difficult to survive mentally because of the horrific things the soldier deals with, which often cause the soldier to develop mental disorders.

War survivors are perceived as brave and thought to be able to face anything. Taking a look at a soldier, someone might notice scars and burn marks on them. But what they can’t see is the internal damage a war might have taken on a soldier, i.e. PTSD. Anybody who’s ever lived with someone who had PTSD experiences a difficult life; avoiding certain interactions, anger/guilt, addiction, alienation, and discourage are feelings and actions that a family must go through. Life is even more difficult for the person who has PTSD; flashbacks, palpitation, nightmares, social anxiety, and hyper

The psychologist Sigmund Freud once said, “Because every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.” He initially stated this when he was corresponding with Albert Einstein via letter. This quote is also a great explanation of the events that take place during war that people chose to not recognise. War is terrible, and no matter how hard we try, nothing will change that. Erich Maria Remarque shows us that soldiers have endured dreadfully throughout World War I in his book “All Quiet on the Western Front”. The character in the book, Paul Baumer, endures through the tragedies of war with some of his old schoolmates as well as new comrades that he meets along the way. They survive through all of the tragedies together, but in the end, the war made them lose their friendships as well as their lives. The reality is that war comes with consequences while it destroys people, and there is nothing that will ever be able to change that. The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” shows how war comes destroys people's lives with its consequences through three of its themes: the importance of comradery, the loss of innocence, and the horrors and brutality of war.

Being in war is definitely one of the most life changing events a person will ever have whether it be for the better or for the worst. Soldiers will witness events that are impossible to forget or see back at home in the states. Some soldiers may have even seen one of their best friends that they’ve known for forever get blown up into pieces right next to them, or they might even get one of their own limbs blown off of their own bodies, becoming handicapped for life. As a result of seeing something so intense like that, most soldiers are usually traumatized. In matter of fact, a great amount of soldiers are traumatized from the very beginning of being in war. It’s without a doubt difficult to deal with this but there are some ways where

We have all seen or read about the political and social upheavals caused by war. Some may have even experienced it first-hand. Throughout history war has had negative psychological implications on those effected. However, there is no greater negative impact of war than the psychological and emotional turmoil that it causes individual soldiers.

There is no doubt that when war occurs, every single human being is affected by it even if it is just a little. In the novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque, a group of teenage men, who also appear to by classmates, are in the German army of World War I because they have chosen to leave their adolescence at home and school for grown up work at the army. Throughout this fictional novel, they face many challenges that result in them not seeing each other ever again because of death. War affects individuals by leaving behind necessities such as education or jobs, not being able to watch over others such as their health, and injuries that soldiers receive while they are at war.

reactions of the soldier’s family. Krebs comes home from a long overseas war with exhausted

The wartime lives of the soldiers who fought in the war were in a state of mind of mixed feelings. Happiness and devastating are two adjectives that can describe the soldier’s feelings in the war because at one second they can be happy that they succeeded on a mission, but on the other hand, it can be very devastating because one of their own soldiers could have been killed during the war. Aside from physical danger losing one of your own soldiers or having your family worry about you every day and night are some negatives and unpleasant parts about fighting in a war. For example, soldiers loved ones worried each day, and hoped that they would not get a knock on their door by someone who was going to tell them that their fathers, husbands, sons, or brothers have died in the war.

Concussions are a form of brain injury that is medically defined as a condition that modifies the way in which an individual’s brain essentially functions as a result of significant trauma to the head or body (Mayo Clinic, 2016). While most people believe that concussions can only be sustained by receiving a direct blow to the head itself, concussions can actually develop from any forceful acceleration to either the head or the body as long as the impact is hard enough (Edwards & Bodle, 2014). The amount of energy that is generated by such dynamic contact basically causes the brain to jolt back and forth against the skull surrounding it, thereby damaging the neurological structure almost instantaneously. However, most concussions tend to lean more to the milder side of the brain injury spectrum and, in most cases, the

People may claim that they have witness terrible things in there live, but nothing can match the horrors a soldier witnesses on a daily basis in a warzone. One Army soldier that I know in particular, came back from the war in Afghanistan scarred both in body and soul. Mathew is one of many soldiers who suffer from a condition called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD for short). PTSD is a condition that can make a person relive the worst moments of their lives over and over. It tends to lead people such as Mathew, to become shells of their former selves. It can be beaten through time however but it leaves a lasting mark on a person's life. I have watched as Mathew's life and man he was before his time in the war in Afghanistan, was destroyed as he battled his PTSD that left a lasting scar on his mind and soul.

Traumatic brain injuries (T.B.I.) can happen when people are injured during and after military service. They must find ways to cope with the symptoms and cope with separation from the military. People will use illicit drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and misuse prescription drugs as a mechanism and the objective of this study is to understand the impact of TBI and military service on substance use norms of soldiers and their partners. These norms are important in neuroscience because they create problems in a person’s brain and life. Environmental factors such as being in the military puts people at risk for physical and mental damage. A person can receive damage if they are struck in the head or are affected by a nearby explosion. TBI symptoms will appear after a few days, weeks, or months depending on how severe the injury is. If couples have high approval of these norms, there can be possible long-term effects on the individual.

Being home and at school are the primary locations for students and adolescents and where they spend the most time of their day. When a student is diagnosed with a TBI, it can dramatically affect their school performance. After a student experiences a TBI, school is one one of the many stepping stones where recovery and development is offered and can be used as an intervention. For schools to be able to offer the appropriate educational measures adjusted for the needs of the student, the appropriate support and recovery process for the student, schools having the appropriate documentation and knowledge about the student’s injury.

War can drastically alter the body and the mind. On page 18 of Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates describes the sensation of his possession of his own body being in a constant state of jeopardy. He notes that this was a feeling he experienced very early in life and that it comes from being at war. Though “being at war” can have many meanings, I believe some of the books we’ve read have displayed the idea in the simplest of ways. Sections of Betool Khedairi’s, Absent, and Joe Sacco’s, Journalism, have powerful examples of what war does to the body. These works also give us insight as to how people cope with the damage done.