Felicia Williams

DeBock
English 4
3/23/16
Essential Question: How do people live their daily lives with PTSD?
Working Thesis: Some people dont go out to go anywhere because of the big crowds.
Refined Thesis: There are some people with PTSD that stays in their house and stay away from
other people.
Service Annotated Bibliography
Before The Trauma: Velasquez-Manoff, Moises. Post-Traumatic stress disorder- Risk
factors Military personnel- Mental health Post- traumatic stress disorder- Patients
Stress (psychology) Gene expression.
The article Before the Trauma, it talks about how a Marine survived the bomb that
shattered his peace of mind that never really exploded. There are some studies that show
experiencing trauma early in life seems to increase the chance of suffering from PTSD years
later, perhaps because these early traumas alter the expression of genes involved in how the body
responds to stress, threats, injury and infection. A few years before Glatt found that inflammation
levels before deployment could predict soldiers might later succumb to PTSD, Roee Admon was

looking at another way to detect who was vulnerable. He found that the recruits with amygdala
reacted most forcefully, meaning with the greatest blood flow, to images of potentially
threatening soldiers before service were the most vulnerable to PTSD after combat stresses.
Early life struggles may also alter the amygdala and other brain areas associated with PTSD,
studies indicate that children reared in orphanages and otherwise deprived of affection from
caretakers an extreme stress, display an enlarged overactive amygdala that responds more readily
to threatening images. The reason for this article is that vets arent the only ones with PTSD
other people can have PTSD from life trauma events. Also the article talks about the studies that
are caused for PTSD.
Veterans Battle With PTSD Years after Deployment: Barber Barrie. Dayton Daily
News (OH). 05/27/2012, Points of View Reference Center
In the article Veterans battle with PTSD years after deployment it talks about how Daytin
Daily news and five veterans shared their combat experienced places like Iraq and Afghanistan
and describes the toll it has taken on them emotionally, physically and mentally. A veteran whose
name is Weis still scans the top buildings for snipers, even though he returned from war in 2004,
when he takes his 6 year old daughter to a soccer game he would stand near the edge of the
crowd, the reason behind that is that he is wary of screams because they remind him of what
happened when he was in Iraq. Some of those with PTSD attempt to medicate with alcohol and
drugs, bringing new personal battles, and some other veterans had thought of suicide. The stress
of adjusting back to civilian life and coping with PTSD often can take toll on relationships and
marriages. Hawk had troubles in his marriage in 1993, two years after he served in desert storm,
at that time, his wife decided to leave him, he said. Support group saves lives, in Weiss case he

said he and dozens of other Marines were asked when they returned if they needed help when
they gathered in one room and a VA representative showed up. The reason for this article is that
it talks about how veterans have to suffer everything to keep their loved ones happy and make
them stay, and how some sounds make the think of what happened in Iraq. It also talks about
how they would change and stop thinking about suicides and go to group meetings that helps
them.
Quality of Life of Croatian Veterans Wives and Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder: Peraica, Tina. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 2014, Vol. 12
Issues 1, p1-18. 18p.
In the article Quality of life of Croatian veterans wives and veterans with PTSD it talks
about how Post-traumatic Stress Disorder has a great impact on a patients quality of life. Some
people with long-term contact with a person may be suffering from PTSD, such as family
members, children, loved ones, it can also consequently develop various emotional problems.
Some methods were investigated whether chronic combat PTSD is related to lower QoL of
veterans wives, 115 healthy nonveterans wives and 223 men without PTSD. This study
examines the effect of PTSD on function and physical performance in older overweight military
veterans with comorbid conditions. Conclusion our results indicate the negative impact
husbands chronic PTSD on overall QoL, psychological health, social relations, and
environmental area QoL of veterans wives. The reason of this article is that the women and the
active members in the military suffer from PTSD, mostly the wives because their loved ones
were in combat and when they came back and change their outlook about the world.

For the service thing there will be questions about how they live their lives and how they
go out, the service is going to be for 8 hours working with them and how they go through PTSD.
It will be with the veteran of the wife of the veteran who is helping the veteran or who is
suffering from PTSD.