In the United States, 3.5% of people yearly suffer PTSD from Online and real occurrences any impactful situation can affect people’s natural behavior with one another. PTSD is “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” which can cause many people harm or self-harm and there is another word for PTSD that military people use called “Shell Shock”. People that have PTSD often come from a military background due to the brutal challenges they face. When coming from active duty veterans have disturbing thoughts and feelings that relate to their traumatic past events which make it difficult for them to adjust to their normal daily lifestyle with their families. When going through a pandemic, it will increase the rate of people to have PTSD because of the imbalance nature that happens in their life. The fear of not being in control shock many people sense helplessness or not having the power to change the outcome. PTSD doesn’t only happen to only adults, it happens to all people of any race, color, nationality, and age. In the United States, people had many issues with the Internet constantly being a trigger in many cases where veterans have a difficult time adjusting to normal lifestyles and people who have other mental issues suffer the most to the high possibility they have PTSD.
The free time people with PTSD spend to make themselves happy can be ruined in an instant. In many families, mental issues can run through DNA and some people don’t understand the seriousness. Debbie is a person who suffers from mental issues “I suffer from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety, which at times makes my life difficult and unbearable. I find that mental health is still a very taboo subject. Many people are still ignorant about mental health and don’t treat it seriously because it’s not really visible.” This issue further explains the importance of taking care of those who struggle in silence with talking to anyone or even searching for general support is difficult when you constantly hear negative thoughts of suicide, thinking you’re not good enough, always saying you can do better, comparing your own action to someone else thinking they have it better than you not knowing their struggle but still feeling insecure about yourself, and having a sense of self-disappointment frequently. Online people tend to not show empathy to others with their own comments when dealing with others who post on their social media. Social media is a huge networking source where people can communicate faster than they did in the past where now you can be a very young person and still have access to social media to interact with others. A smartphone is devices that a majority of people in the United States use in their life and are very crucial in how they react to others and make their own decisions. People forget that having such a device with such power can cause negative effects on those who behave in a destructive matter that make people victims of their destructive behavior.
Many marine soldiers return with a different behavior when they return home from active duty. Marines carry out brutal combat missions to serve this nation. The missions they carry out can lead to a variety of mental health symptoms. The mental health symptoms can be random panic attacks, nightmares, aggressive behaviors, mood swings, and addiction to drugs. The random panic attacks can come from memorizing an intense event that happened in active duty. In recent studies “About 15 out of every 100 Vietnam veterans (15%) were currently diagnosed with PTSD when the most recent study of them (the National Vietnam Veteran Readjustment Study) was conducted in the late 1980s.” Marines with PTSD that have aggressive behaviors “.. had been aggressive in the past four months, such as threatening physical violence, destroying property, or having a physical fight with someone.” In the Marine corps soldiers who have PTSD are very difficult to deal with in the process of returning home. Most of the marines in the United States have been put down because of their inappropriate behaviors in society.
In the United States, 20 percent of Marine soldiers suffer from problems with mental health, adjusting to their own families, anger issues, and unusual behavior when returning home; Marine soldiers struggle to maintain their mental issues on a daily routine. The Marine families have a difficult time keeping the bond together, but usually, they fall apart. Marines with PTSD do suffer at home in the process of adjusting to a normal lifestyle. The population has been on the verge of mental problems, but there are still some people who committed suicide to get rid of their agony. In family vacation, the soul purpose to relax can be perturbed by an unexpected situation where it affects the minds involved for instance “ I went on to the Dominican Republic at the age of six where I was on the beach and got stung by a sea urchin”. That experience gave PTSD any that deals with sea life and when I go on any family vacation I am constantly reminded of that moment. There are many different situations that can make people tumble from the shock of PTSD but the way they endure it can determine whether or not they can make the best of their own situation or be consume in the negativity that follows ups with other sorts of mental issues.
Online is a place where people find whatever feeling, ideas, desires, positive or negative post but none less its express human interaction but virtually. People can get PTSD from anything even from merely waking up or from a workplace. In many cases, people suffer from nightmares of past events with waking up in the middle of the night from shock. The countless nights that people go through with their PTSD have a treatment that comes in pills, liquids, and another product that can be prescribed to you by your own doctor if you have insurance but if you don’t you would have to go to the pharmacy. In any situation, there is a possibility of the outcome ending terrible but keep a positive mindset can also help yourself manage the pain in life to keep pushing forward because nobody can make you stand on your two feet and walk for you it is your own responsibility to move forward for a positive revolution.
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My mental illness is my reality – it’s not a choice
Debbie, March 6, 2020
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Van Winkle, Clint. Soft Spots : a Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009. Print.
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https://news.yahoo.com/statistics-ptsd-veterans-130000330.html
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