JOURN 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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When your life is in danger you want to have nightmares and flashbacks. Everything ) was looking at seemed like it was going to kill me but ) couldn"t numbers going in wrong direction intensity down disability up recent wars- 1/3 of vietnam casualty rate. Has filed as ptsd compensation suicide- 22 vets a day actually less likely to commit suicide later understand why. Later i found out i had short term ptsd want to be angry. Its not pleasant but it keeps you from getting beaten. 20% wind up with chronic long term ptsd. The people who are vulnerable are people who suffered trama as children, war, ) bet the warriors weren"t getting ptsd like us. Maybe the problem isn"t them (cid:523)the vets(cid:524) maybe the problem is us women in nigeria vs urban woman in america urban were more depressed. The kind of society you come back to.
