War veterans, and the deeper understanding and treatment of PTSD

Over the years, psychologists, healthcare professionals, doctors, researchers, and scientists have tried to come up with effective ways of treating post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Countless people suffer from the disorder, which causes extreme paranoia and depression, often leading to tragic consequences.

However, to gain a better understanding of PTSD, researchers have focused on a single demographic – war veterans. Before PTSD was labeled, it was regarded as an abnormality in a person’s brain, like many other mental disorders in the past. Because of this, treatments were limited to lobotomies and electric shock.

After World War II, experts in the field of psychology and mental health saw how behavior and society, in general, were factors. More experiments were conducted on the human brain to see how feelings such as anxiety and stress could be caused. The findings were to become the foundation of modern-day treatment of PTSD and other related disorders.

The U.S. government granted funds for researchers to help veterans as it was found that soldiers who’ve experienced war brought home with them the extreme stress from the field of battle. In the minds of many veterans, the war had not ended. Thus, began a more modern understanding of PTSD as something more than just a physical issue.

With social and behavioral factors affecting veterans years after ending their tours, mental health professionals started to develop alternative treatments, and the incidents of lobotomies and electric shock therapy almost becoming non-existent.

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