DOES PTSD AFFECTS DIFFERENTLY BETWEEN MEN AND

Does PTSD affect differently between Men and Women in the Military?

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Does PTSD affects differently between Men and Women in the Military?

Table of Contents

Introduction3

(a) Addressing of Issues3

(b) Reason for choosing the topic /Research5

(c) Why is it important /significant to do it?6

Goals and Objectives6

Literature Review6

References24

Does PTSD affects differently between Men and Women in the Military?

Introduction

PTSD is an anxiety disorder which can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events which may trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or human?caused disasters, accidents, or military combat.

( a) Addressing of Issues

Symptom profiles of male and female sufferers of PTSD were significantly more likely which women suffered with irritability and to use alcohol to excess. This has important implications for physical health and for professionals who analyse offending behaviour or provide forensic reports. This finding echoes work by Zlotnick et al. who found which men with PTSD in general psychiatric practice were more likely to meet criteria for a substance use disorder and for antisocial personality disorder. Zlotnick et al.'s other finding which women with PTSD were likely to quote sexual trauma as a cause and to have a higher frequency of re?experiencing type symptoms were not replicated in this sample. ( However, as noted, women were more likely to complain of childhood abuse.) Zlotnick et al. concluded which, as in this study, men and women had fairly comparable clinical symptom profiles

A case could be made for retaining the association between the diagnosis and the most prevalent symptoms and perhaps dropping some of the less?frequently experienced symptoms —A case could also be made for including some frequently occurring apparent symptoms ( e.g. low mood and reduced libido) and often overlooked symptoms in the diagnostic guidelines ( such as mood lability). Many would argue for two discrete diagnoses — PTSD which accounts for such problems as anxiety at reminder cues, nightmares, and depression, which accounts for problems such as low mood and reduced libido. The latter argument is made by those in favour of the concept of co?morbidity.

Co?morbidity with PTSD has been recognised in earlier studies, prompting others to contemplate whether PTSD is a discrete diagnostic entity. There was otherwise a broad similarity in the relative frequency of symptoms amongst males and females. This broad similarity in symptom profiles between males and females also seems to occur in military cases of PTSD. This finding is not universal and some authors have found differences between male and female presentations, particularly with regard to dissociative?type symptoms, which in Fullerton et al.'s study, women appeared to be more susceptible. Maes et al. found which women were more likely to have re?experiencing symptoms and arousal symptoms. Maes' study, however, included fewer than 40 people with PTSD. Its findings are not replicated in the current study, which has a larger number of subjects with PTSD.

Up to 50% of PTSD patients have co?morbid ...