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STRESS
DISORDER
(PTSD)
Michael A. Herma
M. Levi Wrig
• Nightmares
• Flashbacks
• Emotional detachment or num
feelings
• Insomnia
• Avoidance of reminders and extre
distress when exposed to the remind
("triggers")
• Irritability
• Hypervigilance
• Memory loss
• Excessive startle response
• Post-Vietnam - "post-traumatic
stress disorder"
-APA added PTSD to its Diagnostic &
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Third Edition (DSM-III) in 1980 and wa
added to the Rating Schedule in April
1980 (DC 9411)
• Medal of Honor
• Navy Cross
• Purple Heart
• Silver Star
• Testimony of a veteran
engaged in combat with t
is acceptable proof of serVI
related stressor,
unless ....
- Full names,
- Dates (at least month & year),
- Places,
- Units of assignment (battalion or co
level).
• VA must then ask U.S. Army & Joint Servi
Records Research Center (JSRRC), former
the U.S. Armed Services Center for Unit
Records Research (CURR), and before that
Research of Unit Records, Environmental
Support Group (ESG), or
• VA may use other any other authorized means
to verify the claimed stressor.
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