scholarly journals THE PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER THROUGH MILITARY PERSONNEL’S CREATIVE WRITING

10.23856/4205 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Tetiana Khraban
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Combat Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
Post Traumatic

The aim of this paper is to study the linguistic markers of manifestation in the modern non-institutional military-poetic discourse of consequences of combat stress, which the Ukrainian army servicemen experienced during military operations. This study focuses on an integrated approach combining pragmatic and cognitive approaches in the framework of discourse analysis. Analysis of the military-poetic discourse has proved that combat stress takes a toll in the poetry of military personnel in the form of signs of the emotional and psychological state, which is taken as post-traumatic stress disorder. These signs are: reference to recurring disturbing dreams (nightmares) and obsessive troubling flashbacks relating to war; a subconscious desire to forget what has happened; persistent negative emotional and psychological state, which manifests itself in negative feelings, moods and emotions such as: depression, anger, rage, hatred, mistrust, resentment, humiliation, letdown, confusion from not understanding what is happening; persistent inability to experience positive emotions; depersonalization; feeling of isolation, alienation from other people; persistent and exaggerated expectations from others, which manifests itself in negative beliefs and/or blaming yourself and others. To protect their psyche from the destructive effects of a traumatic situation, servicemen use such self-regulation strategy as involvement in artistic creativity, in which poetry works as a type of social and psychological rehabilitation. The rewind technique, psychodrama and cognitive restructuring are the most essential elements of self-regulation strategies used by the participants in the Joint Forces Operation.

scholarly journals A deep learning approach for identifying cancer survivors living with post-traumatic stress disorder on Twitter

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (S4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Hafieza Ismail ◽  
Ninghao Liu ◽  
Mengnan Du ◽  
Zhe He ◽  
Xia Hu
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fear Of Cancer Recurrence ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic

Abstract Background Emotions after surviving cancer can be complicated. The survivors may have gained new strength to continue life, but some of them may begin to deal with complicated feelings and emotional stress due to trauma and fear of cancer recurrence. The widespread use of Twitter for socializing has been the alternative medium for data collection compared to traditional studies of mental health, which primarily depend on information taken from medical staff with their consent. These social media data, to a certain extent, reflect the users’ psychological state. However, Twitter also contains a mix of noisy and genuine tweets. The process of manually identifying genuine tweets is expensive and time-consuming. Methods We stream the data using cancer as a keyword to filter the tweets with cancer-free and use post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related keywords to reduce the time spent on the annotation task. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) learns the representations of the input to identify cancer survivors with PTSD. Results The results present that the proposed CNN can effectively identify cancer survivors with PTSD. The experiments on real-world datasets show that our model outperforms the baselines and correctly classifies the new tweets. Conclusions PTSD is one of the severe anxiety disorders that could affect individuals who are exposed to traumatic events, including cancer. Cancer survivors are at risk of short-term or long-term effects on physical and psycho-social well-being. Therefore, the evaluation and treatment of PTSD are essential parts of cancer survivorship care. It will act as an alarming system by detecting the PTSD presence based on users’ postings on Twitter.

Varieties of Combat Stress Reaction

1987 ◽  
Vol 151 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Garb ◽  
I. Kutz ◽  
A. Bleich ◽  
Z. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Stress Reaction ◽  
Combat Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Combat Stress Reaction ◽  
Post Traumatic

The use of an immunological metaphor allows the incorporation of established theoretical ideas about trauma and stress in an integrative way which enables delineation and illustration of several varieties of combat stress reaction, including subtle forms of that condition which do not often appear in post-traumatic stress disorder literature.

scholarly journals Psychological consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder in post-conflict situations

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Zarema Masaeva ◽  
Laura Kagermazova
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Residual Effects ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Active Attention ◽  
Post Traumatic

this paper presents a scientific and theoretical study of the psychological consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder in a post-conflict region. These circumstances cause active attention to the region, where two military campaigns took place and for a long time residents of the Chechen Republic were under negative influences that affected their psychological state, causing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. All these points require an active study of this issue, as at present there are residual effects of post-traumatic stress disorder in persons who have survived military conflicts. To resolve the psychological consequences it is necessary to increase psychological stability and mental security providing psychological security of the surrounding space. Various studies of PTSD symptoms have shown that the following psychological consequences are mainly observed: obsessive memories, repeated internal living of a negative traumatic situation, nightmares, stress, overstrain, accelerated physiological reactions, apathy. All the negative aspects of the manifestation of PTSD require the organization of psychological correction in the first place the psychological diagnosis using effective tools with which you can get objective comprehensive and reliable results.

scholarly journals Post-traumatic stress disorder and coping strategies in psychotraumatized refugees

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Cavic ◽  
Dusica Lecic-Tosevski ◽  
Mirko Pejovic
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Behavioural Therapy ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Post Traumatic

Introduction. In extreme life events basic assumptions are frequently reassessed and changed. Therefore, trauma requires re-education. Effective coping strategies enable individual to tolerate, minimize, accept or ignore what one cannot manage and to moder?ate the consequences of stressful, traumatic events. Materials and Methods. The aim of this study was to evaluate coping strategies in refugees with post-traumatic stress disorder prior and after group cognitive-behavioural therapy. The sample included 70 refu?gees who experienced multiple stressors such as organized violence, ethnic conflicts, bombing, expelling from their homes and life in exile. Impact Event Scales-Revised, Ways of Coping-Revised, Scale of Cognitive Self-regulation and Scale of Coping Strategies were administered before and after six months of group cognitive-behavioural therapy. Results. Post-traumatic stress disorder in refugees after therapy significantly decreased. Cognitive self-regulation was improved by moving locus of control from external to internal resources. Coping was qualitatively different, with a wider repertoire of adaptive strategies. Discussion. Cognitive group work facilitates processes of grieving, working-through of traumatic material, increasing emotional awareness and developing creativity in coping. Conclusion. Our findings highlight the positive impact of cognitive-behavioural treatment on post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic adjustment. .

The treatment of “shell shock” in World War 1: Early attitudes and treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and combat stress reaction

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S636-S636
Author(s):  
H. Matson
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Stress Reaction ◽  
Combat Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
World War ◽  
Shell Shock ◽  
Combat Stress Reaction ◽  
Post Traumatic

Combat stress reaction is a mental health disorder first documented in the latter half of the 19th century. But it was not until World War 1 when men were put through the horrific ordeals of trench warfare that the term, “shell shocked” was coined. Many soldiers with shell shock then developed what is now called post-traumatic stress disorder (though the term was not defined until 1983) or acute stress disorder. The prevailing opinion was that these men who had often not suffered from any physical trauma were sufferers of cowardice. The British army created the PIE (proximity, immediacy, and expectancy) principles to get such men back to the trenches promptly where manpower was always needed. It was rarely regarded as a real psychiatric condition, which had two consequences. Firstly, that many soldiers progressed from shell shock to post-traumatic stress disorder and secondly, over 150 soldiers were executed by the British army for, “displaying cowardice” whilst in the grip of the illness. The diagnosis of “shell shock” was to be made increasingly frequently as wars became larger and more mechanized throughout the 20th century. Psychiatrists’ management of such patients initially was primitive and influenced by the zeitgeist that such servicemen were not ill, having never come across such a widespread prevalence of mental health problems until the Great War. These ranged from prescriptions of milk to lobotomies. Understanding how “shell shock” was understood, treated and learning from the mistakes made then, continues to inform management of our patients today.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

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