Being homeless can lead a person to suffer from a mental or stress disorder because of nightmares that might come back from all the deaths that occurred in the war. ... By reading The Gettysburg Address, having stressed and mental disorders, suicidal thoughts, and being homeless are big matters of the outcome of being a soldier. ... An important mental disorder that a lot of soldiers get is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. ... As mentioned in the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Treatment of Posttraumatic Disorder, "the major causes of suicide are relationship failures, financial p...

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The numbers are added and the result is an index of the amount of change related stress the person has recently experienced * Pressure involves expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way * Pressure is strongly related to measures of mental health * 3 reactions to stress: 1.Emotional responses- as stress increases, mood becomes more negative * the inverted U hypothesis predicts that task performance should improve with increased emotional arousal * as a task becomes more complex the optimal level of arousal decreases 2.Physiological responses- the fight or flight response i...

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Symptoms, such as disturbing recurring flashbacks, repeated nightmares, and hyper arousal, continue for more than a month after the occurrence of a traumatic event are a diagnosis of Posttraumatic stress disorder. ... Comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional disorders co-occurring with a primary disease or disorder; or the effect of such additional disorders or diseases. The additional disorder may also be a behavioral or mental disorder. With Sadie's psychological symptoms and diagnosis she clearly has comorbid disorders. ... Also I'd recommend her start taking yoga cla...

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Intense anxiety producing situations like this can manufacture certain psychological disorders and/or exaggerate already existing psychological characteristics. ... He could be viewed as possibly having posttraumatic stress disorder. ... Schizophrenia refers to a class of disorders involving severe distortions of reality (Feldman et al. 2004). Process schizophrenia refers to schizophrenia that has a gradual onset, and reactive symptoms have a sudden onset following a stressor (Feldman et al. 2004). ...

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