Category Archives: PTSD Claims

22 With a half million disability cases stuck in a VA backlog, and an estimated 25 percent of Iraq/Afghanistan troops with PTSD not seeking treatment The author uses a factual claim. It is a factual claim because it talks about … Continue reading →

“Brannan sent Katie to the school therapist, once.” This is a factual claim about Brannan’s past related to her previous employment “She hasn’t seen any other therapist, or a therapist trained to deal with PTSD – Brannan knows what a … Continue reading →

C1 The amount of progress in Caleb’s six years of therapy has been frustrating for everyone.  This is an evaluative claim because it is a judgement that every single person has been frustrated by Caleb’s six years of therapy. This … Continue reading →

Section 14 “Meanwhile people like James Peterson, husband of Kateri of the Olive Garden breakdown,” This is a categorical claim, putting James in a category with other veterans whose PTSD has not only damaged their own mental health, but also … Continue reading →

Brannan Vines has never been to war. But she’s got a warrior’s skills: hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning for danger, for triggers. (Analogy Claim) The author is comparing Brannan’s experiences to the awareness of soldiers in war.  Her nose starts running … Continue reading →

Section 12 “By this point, you might be wondering, and possibly feeling guilty about wondering, why Brannan doesn’t just get divorced.” -This quote can be categorized as an Ethical/Moral claim and a Recommendation/Proposal claim. The phrase, “possibly feeling guilty” could … Continue reading →

“Granted, diagnosing PTSD is a tricky thing. The result of a malfunctioning nervous system that fails to normalize after trauma and instead perpetrates memories and misfires life-or-death stress for no practical reason, it comes in a couple of varieties, various complexities, has … Continue reading →

Section 11 It’s to help kids like that that Brannan and her volunteers put together an informational packet on secondary trauma for parents to give to teachers, explaining their battle-worthy idiosyncrasies and sensory-processing sensitivities. They’re common enough problems that the … Continue reading →

Brannan sent Katie to the school therapist, once. She hasn’t seen any other therapist, or a therapist trained to deal with PTSD—Brannan knows what a difference that makes, since the volunteer therapist she tried briefly herself spent more time asking … Continue reading →