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PTSD Affecting Military Veterans And Active Duty Soldiers

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On Tuesday October 27, Dr. Brittany Hall gave a talk on PTSD affecting military veteran and active duty soldiers. During active duty soldiers are exposed to a lot of unforeseen events. Veterans and active duty soldiers are serving to protect the country from allies, and place there lives on the line everyday for citizens to continue to have freedom. The aftermath of returning from combat is the devastating blow for a lot of soldiers. Soldiers returning home from combat are not being able to separate civilian world from warzone usually struggle form PTSD. Observational learning and Pavlovlian Conditioning principles tie into soldiers struggling from PTSD. The environment plays a role into the behavior that occurs. For example, soldiers who

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