{"id":398,"date":"2021-10-21T01:41:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasus74.org\/?p=608"},"modified":"2021-10-21T01:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:41:40","slug":"brief-history-of-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/histmental2021\/brief-history-of-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief History of PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article on the Department of Veterans Affairs webpage gives a brief history of PTSD. The article states that PTSD may well have been a part of human experience since prehistoric times, but it was not until the American Civil War  and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) that physicians first made a systematic attempt to understand the damaging psychological effects of war. Civil War veterans with PTSD-like symptoms were said to suffer from &#8220;irritable heart,&#8221; which was characterized by &#8220;rapid pulse, anxiety and trouble breathing&#8221;; or &#8220;Da Costa&#8217;s Syndrome,&#8221; which was characterized by heart problems. Something akin to PTSD was known as &#8220;shell shock&#8221; in WWI and &#8220;battle fatigue&#8221; (later combat stress reaction) in WWII. However, it was not until 1980 with the introduction of DSM-III (<em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, <\/em>Third Edition) that the modern conception of PTSD was offered as a diagnosis. PTSD was formulated as a response to the large number of Vietnam veterans who suffered from combat trauma as well as studies of Holocaust survivors. The four factors that characterize PTSD today are: &#8220;reliving the traumatic event&#8221;; &#8220;avoiding situations that are a reminder of the event&#8221;; negative changes in beliefs or feelings,&#8221; and being in a state of hyper-arousal or &#8220;over-reactive in situations.&#8221; With the introduction of the DSM-5, PTSD is shown to be a relatively common disorder (4% of American men and 10% of American women will experience it in their lifetime). Additionally, it is no longer considered an anxiety disorder, but is in a new group of disorders called &#8220;Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptsd.va.gov\/understand\/what\/history_ptsd.asp\">https:\/\/www.ptsd.va.gov\/understand\/what\/history_ptsd.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article on the Department of Veterans Affairs webpage gives a brief history of PTSD. The article states that PTSD may well have been a part of human experience since prehistoric times, but it was not until the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) that physicians first made a systematic attempt to understand \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pegasus74.org\/uncategorized\/brief-history-of-ptsd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brief History of PTSD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histmental2021","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}