It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. ... (The Century) Thus soldiers broke down into a mental disease which was then known as "shell shock" but is now categorized in the much broader disease called "posttraumatic stress disorder." Shell shock, also known as battle fatigue, operational exhaustion, and combat neurosis, results from prolonge...

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Department of Veterans Affairs has established a policy where the use of self-report is a necessity to document post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and medical afflictions-regardless of verifiable documentation. ... Binder and Campbell (2004) directed their review to focus on the potential for stress, biological contributors, environment and psychological factors to influence the presence of medically inexplicable disorders including Persian Gulf War illness, gastrointestinal disease, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome (p. 375). ... Carlton et al., (2009) stressed the multiple...

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Traumatic events are experiences that cause physical, emotional, psychological distress, or harm; This event is perceived and experienced as a threat to one's safety or to the stability of one's world (University of Maryland Medical Center, 2014).Succeeding the experience or witnessing of serious events such as military combat, terrorist incidents, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood describes the psychiatric illness known as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder("Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"). ... People with PTSD experience three different kinds of symptoms ("Post Trauma...

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