Depression and other mental disorders affect a teenagers life drastically. Having a mental disorder like depression, anxiety, PTSD, or OCD can greatly affect an adolescents life; OCD and PTSD are two different types of anxiety, there are other types of anxiety that come in certain phobias like social phobia(Social phobia and social anxiety are the same thing just with different names) or agoraphobia. These mental disorders can greatly affect an adolescents life and how they live it. There are many more mental disorders most worst than ocd or anxiety, some not as worse. People who have these mental disorders usually act out different than someone else with the same disorder would, or they might have it worse than someone else in the world. Depression …show more content…
PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder doesn’t just affect people in the army, it can also affect adolescents. The way PTSD can affect adolescents is maybe someone was abused or in a very stressful and traumatic event at some point in their life. PTSD can be triggered by any change or action in someone’s life, it usually affects the mind and relationships with others around you, and can happen at any time. Another mental disorder is OCD OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder is mental disorder that makes a person perform repetitive actions to help with anxiety. While doing these actions over and over again it interferes with a person's daily life, making them unable to do the things because they need their environment to be perfect before doing such activities. Usually OCD can result in control issues with a person’s surrounding environment. With a teen it could be getting perfect grades in school or perfecting something in a sport, it could also be having a set schedule/daily routine and having everything to be done at a specific
Post traumatic stress disorder to most people is a soldier that has just come back from
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that can develop after a traumatic event (Riley). A more in depth definition of the disorder is given by Doctor’s Nancy Piotrowski and Lillian Range, “A maladaptive condition resulting from exposure to events beyond the realm of normal human experience and characterized by persistent difficulties involving emotional numbing, intense fear, helplessness, horror, re-experiencing of trauma, avoidance, and arousal.” People who suffer from this disease have been a part of or seen an upsetting event that haunts them after the event, and sometimes the rest of their lives. There are nicknames for this disorder such as “shell shock”, “combat neurosis”, and “battle fatigue” (Piotrowski and Range). “Battle fatigue” and “combat neurosis” refer to soldiers who have been overseas and seen disturbing scenes that cause them anxiety they will continue to have when they remember their time spent in war. It is common for a lot of soldiers to be diagnosed with PTSD when returning from battle. Throughout the history of wars American soldiers have been involved in, each war had a different nickname for what is now PTSD (Pitman et al. 769). At first, PTSD was recognized and diagnosed as a personality disorder until after the Vietnam Veterans brought more attention to the disorder, and in 1980 it became a recognized anxiety disorder (Piotrowski and Range). There is not one lone cause of PTSD, and symptoms can vary from hallucinations to detachment of friends and family, making a diagnosis more difficult than normal. To treat and in hopes to prevent those who have this disorder, the doctor may suggest different types of therapy and also prescribe medication to help subside the sympt...
With being out in the middle of combat, soldiers see traumatizing scenes. Therefore it would not be uncommon for those soldiers to develop cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression. These people experience night terrors, have difficult times trying to do normal work, and have challenging attempts at sleeping. Some experience separation anxiety because they are away from their family.
Serving the US in the military is a big life changing experience that not everyone chooses to do so. The way the men and women come back from those experiences all vary depending on traumatic experiences they faced. Some come back and develop PTSD. Posttraumatic stress disorder is a disorder that develops in some people who have seen or lived through a shocking, scary or dangerous event (NIMH, 2016). To some it is normal to feel afraid during and after a traumatic situation. Soldiers are facing situations that no one would ever image going through, but they are protecting our country and doing a well job of it. However, they do develop a lot of stress and after math issues that occur due to this. A person’s fight-or-flight response is a healthy reaction meant to protect a person form harm. The way people recover from initial symptoms naturally however others continue to experience problems that lead to being diagnosed with PTSD. Clearly, coming back home from active duty takes a major role on people’s lives and affects everyone differently, but some develop PTSD.
Thousands of United States military veterans return from war not being able to let go of the horrors experienced overseas. Numerous American soldiers returning from the war experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or encountering a shocking event or trauma. PTSD is a universal mental illness that affects many soldiers all over the world. One out of five military service members on combat tours arrive home with symptoms of PTSD or major depression.
Teenage Depression. Everywhere you look these two words appear together as one, in newspapers and magazines, as well as in scholarly reports. Teenage depression is one of today's "hot topics" this among other teenage mental health problems, has been brought to the forefront of public consciousness in recent years after several incidents involving school shootings (CQ 595). The environment that teens grow up in today is less supportive and more demanding than it was twenty years ago. Not only are the numbers of depressed teens rising, but children are also being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. Studies have found that, "There is an estimated 1.5-3 million American children and adolescents who suffer from depression, a condition unrecognized in children until about 20 years ago" (CQR 595). This increase in depression is due to social factors that teenagers have to deal with everyday. A recent study found that, "About five percent of teenagers have major depression at any one time. Depression can be very impairing, not only for the affected teen, but also for his or her family-and too often, if not addressed, depression can lead to substance abuse or more tragic events" (NAMI.org). Gender roles and other societal factors including the pressures on girls to look and act a certain way, the pressures on boys to suppress their emotions and put on a tough front and the pressures on both sexes to do well in school and succeed, all contribute to depression in teens today. Depression is a growing problem which crosses gender lines and one that needs to be dealt with with more than just medication.
Being a soldier who is experiencing PTSD, it boggles the mind how they live their life as one.The feeling to be in prison from his or her own will to be a normal human being, veterans has troubles to overcome it. Enduring the stress, but by in their mind, it haunts them. PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) is a condition that fails to recover from a traumatic experience. Fighting fatigue causes stress to the soldiers, and moreover, it infects the mind that they are murderers instead of serving the country. It leaves them with regret and anxiety, which follows them to the best option, suicide. PTSD soldiers believe it is best to repay for those who have killed during the war. Soldiers who return home are likely to do erratic behaviors which
If The United States required everyone to serve in the military, and a huge war happened, many people would come home with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). PTSD is a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event—either experiencing it or witnessing it. Reisman explains how many people PTSD affects, and how it is difficult to overcome. Reisman says, “While PTSD extends far beyond the military—affecting about eight million American adults in a given year—the problem is especially acute among war veterans. Not only are recent
How Underage Drinking is Affecting Teenagers in Today's Society. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism about 4,300 people under the age of 21 died annually from injuries involving underage drinking (Negative Consequences of Underage Drinking). The amount of underage drinkers in today's society is much higher than 10 years ago and is becoming an epidemic. Drinking at an early age can affects teenagers in many ways including, brain damage, high blood pressure, cancer, and motor vehicle accidents.
Soldier can often experience depression sometimes in the form of a disorder called Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD.) Parents with PTSD may spend less time with their children, develop short temper, behave differently, be reluctant to travel, and have difficulties reconnecting with their children. In May 2010, the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center reported 178,876 cases of traumatic brain injury among returning military personnel since the year 2000. Coming home to a different family might also put strain on the returning soldier. The wife may have moved on to another man if the soldier had been gone too long.
John Steinbeck once said, “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” He makes a good point. Sleep fluctuates the success of your day-to-day life. This especially affects teenagers.
When individuals go into the military they have a complete physical checkup to get cleared to join a branch of service they have selected. Individuals go into the military without having any disabilities or a mental illness, but this can change while they serve during combat. Before signing up, he or she knows the risks such as putting their life on the front line before going into the military. While a solider is in combat, he or she is faced with many types of situations that can cause trauma, physical disability or a mental disability. When veterans come home from serving in combat some of the situations veterans faced causes many to become homeless due to mental illnesses such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD),
This could result in students with more suicidal thoughts and attempts at suicide. In fact, the number of students with suicidal thoughts has tripled over the past 13 years as the number of students seeking help for depression doubled in the same span (Lindsey 2009). Depression can affect these teens in other areas of their life as well. The students who reported that they were depressed also reported that they considered their health fair or poor (Lindsey 2009). In their cases, depression not only affects them psychologically but also physically.
Anxiety has a main definition; a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease. Although, it has its single definition, each person diagnosed with anxiety has different symptoms. With that, some have more severe cases of the actual diagnosis. It has been noted that anxiety has had an increase in teens recently. In the last 30 years, the statistics for anxiety in fifteen to sixteen year olds have doubled for both girls and boys (“Increased Levels of Anxiety…” 1). It is said, “in societal moments like the one we are in…it often feels as if ours is the Age of Anxiety”(Henig 1). Anxiety affects teenagers profusely because the emotions of a teenager are more vulnerable than those of an adult. The brain of a teenager is not fully developed and the stress put on teenagers to start putting their life together takes a toll on their emotions. The daily life and activities are interfered with by anxiety when the amount of stress put on a teenager becomes unbearable. Unfortunately, the effects of anxiety become so intense that the mental health is eventually toyed with. So many different components of life contribute to anxiety and cannot be prevented.
Teenager depression can be a major obstacle to teenagers actualizing their dreams and goals in life. This can have several negative effects on the life of teenagers and their families. The causes of teenager depression may be grouped mainly into two categorizes; they are psychological and environmental causes. The psychological factors/causes deals with the less physical but mental causes of teen depression. While the environmental factors/causes deal mainly with the more physical and obvious causes.