How Does Ptsd Affect The Learning Environment

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PTSD and the learning environment. People with PTSD experience a number of different learning difficulties. Many of the people with PTSD experience difficulties with remembering and the ability to recall. For example, it has been found that individuals with PTSD have severe difficulty with remembering words and their correct order, as well as difficulties remembering facts and other important information, such as appointments. Further more people with PTSD also have difficulties remembering specific details of past events, especially when it comes to specific traumatic events. Individuals with PTSD have a hard time concentrating on any one subject. This is not entirely surprising, as a common symptom of PTSD is difficulty concentrating.…show more content…
The effect of PTSD can be very extensive. PTSD is a debilitating disorder, and its symptoms have a negative impact on a numerous areas of everyday life. In particular, PTSD negatively affects a person's mental health, physical health, work, and relationships. Post-traumatic is more then merely a stress disorder, PTSD is an anxiety disorder that a person may develop after experiencing extreme or overwhelming traumatic events. More specifically, the trauma is more overwhelmingly powerful when they witnesses and event in which another person may have been killed, seriously injured or threatened. All of this may result in intense helplessness, or horror. This severely affects all aspects of their life. PTSD and its symptoms take over an individual’s life and relationships. The consequences of which are phenomenal. Research on OEF/OIF Veterans suggests that more then twenty percent of Operation Iraqi Freedom troops are likely to have PTSD after they return. In addition to PTSD, OIF service members are at risk for many other mental health problems. These studies vary widely in terms of methods used; estimates of

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