PTSD: Echoes of War

Weldon 1 Clint Weldon 04/05/00 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Echoes of War Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The term can be defined simply as, “a normal reaction to an abnormal situation” (Olson, Gail A. and Robbins 8). A more in-depth definition would be “the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically distressing event outside the range of usual human experience” (Dicks 2). Of the seven hundred and fifty thousand heavy combat veterans from Vietnam alive today, two hundred and fifty thousand suffer …

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