Category Archives: PTSD Claims

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 →

Section 14 Chemical exposure, stress reaction, no one knows, but the skin cracks and opens up raw with lesions sometimes.  The author expresses an Evaluative Claim by using her judgement. It is explained that certain factors may cause a type … Continue reading →

1.“We have reason to be reasonably optimistic. Psychotherapy does work for typical PTSD.” The VA tends to favor cognitive-behavioral therapy and exposure therapy—whereby traumatic events are hashed out and rehashed until they become, theoretically, less consuming.  This is a factual … Continue reading →

Section 15 There are trials where patients take MDMA (ecstasy’s active ingredient) while talking about trauma to promote more positive and less scary associations with the events. -The author uses a casual claim here as there is an assertion that … 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 could either be categorized as an Ethical or Moral claim or a Recommendation or Proposal Claim. It … Continue reading →

SECTION 17 And then she’ll just sit and listen while he says he cannot get it out of his head, about how if he had caught that fucking sniper, that enemy sniper he’d been trying to get, that’d been following … Continue reading →

“Its to help kids like that” This claim may seem thoughtful, however, it really alienates the children being spoken of by labeling them as “the other”. This claim suggests that these kids have not gotten sufficient assistance for their situation … Continue reading →

“In 2009, it was Hovda who delivered the Pentagon the recommendation that because multiple concussions could cause serious long-term injury, concussions need time to heal. A fight ensued.” This can be a factual claim and causal claim, as the sentence … Continue reading →