PTSD Claims- CompIIstudent

Posted on February 23, 2021 by compiistudent

“But here we’ve got lasagna, and salad with an array of dressing choices, and a store bought Bundt cake with chocolate chips in it!”

-This is a factual claim, as there is no way to dispute whether this is true or not, really because only the people present would know.

“There is no dining room table- when they bought the house years ago, they thought they’d finish it up real nice like they did with another house, before the war, but nobody’s up for that now.”

-This is an evaluative claim, as the speaker is evaluating why the family hasn’t finished the room, inferring its due to the husband going to war.

“And it’s lovely.”

-This is a casual claim, as the speaker is just referencing how nice it is to have a fun dinner with their close family.

“Caleb is in such a good mood that Brannan asks if he’s up for putting Katie to bed so she can go lie down. Forty five minutes later he wakes her up screaming.”

-This is a causal claim, describing how a victim oof PTSD can be so calm and happy and then become paranoid in an instant.

“Not two days after that he tells her he’s leaving her.”

-This is a factual caim, as there’s no way to dispute this unless someone else contradicts it

“‘I’m going to get it over with so that you don’t have to,’ he says because thats just the way the scale goes that day, when he weighs the pain of being alone versus the pain of being a burden.”

-This is an evaluative claim since the narrator is evaluating the situation between the veteran and his wife, and taking a look into why they’re getting divorced

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PTSD Claims-JohnWick66

Posted on February 22, 2021 by johnwick66

“The amount of progress in Caleb’s six years of therapy has been frustrating for everyone.”

-Through this they are indicating that Caleb has made very little progress from his therapy

-“…Frustrating for everyone” They are trying to make it sound as if the therapy was nothing more than a slow drag not only for Caleb but for everyone around him to. I’m not saying that they are over exaggerating Caleb’s recovery but rather the people’s involved in it.

“But ultimately, says Alain Brunet, vice president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and director of the Traumatic Stress Laboratory at McGill University in Canada, “we have reason to be reasonably optimistic. Psychotherapy does work for typical PTSD.””

-“Psychotherapy does work for typical PTSD.” Just thought how this was a stark contrast to what was mentioned back in section four were Caleb was screened for PTSD and ,according to his wife “he got the second-worst score in the whole 18-county Gulf Coast VA system, which serves more than 50,000 veterans.” Alain Brunet’s line almost undercuts it because based off it. it makes it seem that either Caleb’s wife was overplaying the results or Mrs. Brunet is severally underplaying it(that Caleb has normal PTSD, which is still bad, but cuts away from the earlier quote)

-“we have reason to be reasonably optimistic. Psychotherapy does work for typical PTSD.” This heavily implies that it works extremely well for anyone with normal PTSD. But they don’t explain what’s considered normal PTSD, so how am I, the reader suppose to understand either 1. the success of the treatment in general, and two, the actual severity of Caleb 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.”

-Isn’t the problem with PTSD is that it triggers the victim of the disease, depending on the severity of it based off certain things that’ll trigger a flash back? So is it necessarily healthy to treat them by repeadtly making them relive those memories?

“For severe cases, the agency offers inpatient programs, one of which Caleb resided in for three months in 2010.”

-“For severe cases,..” Once again goes back and forth with how bad Caleb’s PTSD is.

“There’s a fairly strong consensus around CBT and EMDR,” Brunet says.

-What’s the consensus? They placed the quote in without even stating what the consensus even was in regards to CBT and EMDR

“While veterans are waiting for those to work, they’re often prescribed complicated antidepressant-based pharmacological cocktails.”

-Whats the point of waiting on progress of there treatments if there also gonna down “pharmacological cocktails”?

-Are there benefits to doing both simultaneously?

 “The Mental Health Research Portfolio manager says the organization is “highly concerned and highly supportive” of PTSD research.”

“But a lot of FOV members and users are impatient with the progress. Up until 2006, the VA was spending $9.9 million, just 2.5 percent of its medical and prosthetic research budget, on PTSD studies.”

-Even though its only 2.5% of there budget, $9.9 million is still a lot of money in terms for research. The writer makes it as if they are fed scraps. it would have been more impactful if they only left in the percentage of the funding instead of the actual money used.

-At the same time though it does diminish the value of what the Mental Health Research Portfolio manager said in regards to the organization being “highly concerned and highly supportive” of PTSD research.”

 “But studies take a long time, and any resulting new directives take even longer to be implemented.”

-That’s the point though, yes they take time but that’s so to make sure whatever is being researched is being done right. So that there are few, in any, gaps in terms of there understanding. To just rush through the research wouldn’t help at all.

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Claims-Icedcoffeeislife

Posted on February 22, 2021 by icedcoffeeislife
  • 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. Hovda says some of the Army’s best doctors implied that if soldiers were told they needed rest after concussions, it was going to usher in an epidemic of fakers, or retired guys claiming disability way after the fact.
    • This is a factual and evaluative claim as it is telling us in 2009 is when the government started to look at long-term brain injuries and it is looking at how the army approached taking care of soldiers
  • Although, the NFL was given the same memo in the 1990s, and brain damage in boxers is even older news, so it doesn’t seem like it would take a neuroscientist—or the top medical brass of an Army that builds laser cannons—to figure out that if 25 mph punches to the head cause brain damage, IED blasts that hit at 330 mph probably do too.
    • This is a quantitative and ethical claim as it is telling us that the nfl was using the same type of technology in the 1990s. Now the army is realizing with neuroscientists that it is likely that if an object hits your head you are likely to receive brain damage no matter the size of the object.
  • Eventually, Honda’s cause prevailed. These days, there are MRIs in theater, assessments after blasts, mandatory rest periods after a concussion.
    • This is a causal claim as it is telling us that with the technology that we have today we can figure out how long a person should rest after they have gotten a concussion from a blast. 
  • That they will never be the same—researchers “have tried hyperbaric oxygen, hundreds of clinical trials; we’re just failing miserably in trying to make a difference”—but that they should not panic.
    • This is an evaluative claim. The reasoning is that even with the trials that have been done to help with PTSD, there still is not a way that shows why that is panicking. 
  • The human brain has an enormous amount of plasticity. New cells are born every day. New connections can be made. The good news is, teleologically speaking, if we didn’t have the ability to recover from brain injury, we’d have ended up as somebody’s breakfast.”
  • This is a causal claim. The reasoning is that it claims that the brain is able to handle this trauma, but our brain should not be doing it very often.
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Claims- Christainity19

Posted on February 22, 2021 by christianity19

“Veterans” people who served in the army and came back home after fighting long strenuous wars. It takes a lot of money to cure PTSD especially if it’s really serious and lasts a long time because of the fighting that someone endured during a tour in another country.

  1. This is an evaluative/faucal claim because it is staring how the study beings and what PTSD show

PTSD is similar to another communicable diseases known as COVID-19, Ebola, Tuberculosis and etc.


2. This is a Analogy Claim because you are comparing to other communicable diseases that are current right now and diseases from the past.

Symptoms of PTSD may include nightmares or unwanted memories of the trauma, avoidance of situations that bring back memories of the trauma, heightened reactions, anxiety, or depressed mood.


3. This is a Categorical Claim since it is referring to the PSTD symptoms.

100% of Veterans can’t go back to full time and do a job because of the aftermath of PTSD’s

4. This is a Factual Claim because the circumstances or conditions exist beyond doubt. Factual claims can be proved by appealing to indisputable evidence.

Short-term disability is a type of insurance benefit that provides some compensation or income replacement for non-job-related injuries or illnesses that render you unable to work for a limited time period. “Non-job-related” is an important phrase to note there.


5. This is a Evaluative Claim because it involves a value judgment—an act of interpretation.

Family members got PTSD after being haunted by a serial killer


6. This is a Ethical Claim because the type of evaluative claim that places a judgment on a social situation expresses an ethical judgment.

There are more returning veterans with PTSD from getting injured on a tour.


7. This is a Comparative Claim. Such claims may be factual or evaluative depending on the reliability of the measurements.

Army people getting inured during a tour causes PTSD.


8. This is a Causal Claim because are assertions of cause and effect, consequences, preconditions, or predictions of what will occur in certain circumstances.

The Army people would decrease the chances from getting PTSD by getting help from a specialist.


9. This is a Proposal Claim because Authors who write to convince an audience to adopt a course of action (or at the very least to adopt a different point of view on a topic of social importance) are making a proposal claim.

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Claims – mrmba1

Posted on February 21, 2021 by mrmba1
  • “She also helps thousands of other people—measured by website and social-media interactions…”

This is a factual claim as it points to the social media evidence that Brannan has indeed helped thousands of people. This could also be considered a quantitative/ comparative claim, as it claims that she has helped Caleb in addition to those thousands.

  • “Find a way not only to cope with life after combat…but to survive and thrive!”

This is an evaluation claim, stating that current veterans with PTSD do not currently “survive and thrive.”

  • “Brannan founded the organization in 2007”

This is a factual claim as the founding of the organization is easily provable and accepted as true.

  • “All that didn’t happen until after the second tour.”

This is a quantitative/ comparative claim, as it claims that the mentioned side effects didn’t occur following Caleb’s first tour.

  • “This is the only reason I am well.”

This is a causal claim, claiming that Brannan is only healed because of the organization.

  • “They want to help and they want to understand, so I just have to keep going and educating.”

    This is both a causal claim as well as an evaluation claim (?). It’s casual, claiming that she must educate because of people’s want to understand, and it’s evaluative when she claims that people want to understand.
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Claims-RowanRat

Posted on February 21, 2021 by rowanrat

“in a family system, every member of that system is going to be impacted, most often in a negative way, by mental-health issues.”

This is an example of a quantitative claim because it measures the amount of people being affected.

“…’since 2005 has added 70 therapists to military installations around the country.’”

This is an example of a numerical claim because there is an exact number and can be proven to be true.

“‘We’re better than we were,’ Robi­chaux says. ‘But we still have a ways to go.’”

This is an example of an evaluative claim because this is Robichaux’s judgement of the given circumstances.

“Of course, the Army only helps families of active-duty personnel”

This is an example of a comparative claim because the army exclusively helps families of active-duty personnel compared to others.

“But ‘if you asked the VA to treat your kids, they would think it was nonsense,’ says Hofstra’s Motta.”

This is a casual claim because it demonstrates judgement on what would happen if you were to ask the VA.

‘“Our goal is to make the parents the strongest parents they can be,’”

This is an evaluative claim because it expresses what they plan to do in the future based off of what they believe is a priority.

“‘for the vast majority of people with the secondary traumatization model, the most important way to help the family deal with things is to ensure that the veteran gets effective treatment.’”

This is a proposal claim because it gives clear instructions of how to to possibly help people with the secondary traumatization model.

“In cases where children themselves need treatment, these VA officials recommended that parents find psychologists themselves”

This is a proposal claim because the VA officials suggest parents to find psychologists, convincing them to take a specific course of action

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Claims-KobeBryant

Posted on February 21, 2021 by kobebryant32

“Different studies of the children of American World War II, Korea, Vietnam vets with PTSD have turned up different results”. 45% of kids in one small study reported significant PTSD signs; 83% reported elevated hostility scores”. Other studies have found a higher rate of psychiatric treatment. “More dysfunctional social and emotional behavior; difficulties in establishing and maintaining friendships.” 

This is a factual claim because it tells us the percentage of kids that were used in study.

“She’s not a normal kid. She does things and says things. She’s a grown up in a six-year old’s body in a lot of ways.” 

This an example of an Ethical or Moral claim because she is projecting her judgement.

“Brannan Vines has never been to war, but her husband, Caleb, was sent to Iraq twice, where he served in the infantry as a designated marksman. He’s one of 103,200, or 228,875, or 336,000 Americans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and came back with PTSD, depending on whom you ask, and one of 115,000 to 456,000 with traumatic brain injury.”

This is a factual claim because it tells us exactly how many soldiers came back with PTSD (including which one Caleb was).

“Hypervigilance sounds innocuous, but it is in fact exhaustingly distressing, a conditioned response to life-threatening situations. Imagine there’s a murderer in your house. And it is dark outside, and the electricity is out. Imagine your nervous system spiking, readying you as you feel your way along the walls, the sensitivity of your hearing, the tautness in your muscles, the alertness shooting around inside your skull. And then imagine feeling like that all the time.”

This is an Analogy Claim because you are comparing two similar things.

Up until 2006, the VA was spending $9.9 million, just 2.5 percent of its medical and prosthetic research budget, on PTSD studies. In 2009, funding was upped to $24.5 million.”

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Claims – carsonwentz1186

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Chris McGee

“Charles Marmar, a New York University professor who was on the team of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study, the most comprehensive study of combat stress ever conducted, points out that you really have to spend the money to treat PTSD, since the costs of not treating it are so much higher.”

This is an evaluative/factual claim because it is stating the outcome of a study and is talking about what the results mean.

“Personal tragedy, suicide, depression, alcohol and drug use, reliving terror, he rattles off as consequences. Stress-related health problems—cardiovascular, immunologic. Heart attacks, stroke, and even dementia.”

This is a categorical claim since it is referencing all of the symptoms of PTSD.

“The treatment and compensation disability programs have cost billions. And the costs of the untreated are probably in the tens of billions. They’re enormous.” 

This is a numerical claim as it is talking about the cost of disability programs and all of the costs of the untreated PTSD patients.

“There are an estimated 100,000 homeless vets on the street on any given night.”

This a numerical claim as it offers an estimate on how many homeless veterans are on the streets on a daily basis.

“Experts say it’s nearly impossible to calculate what treating PTSD from Vietnam has and will cost American taxpayers, so vast are its impacts.”

This is an evaluative claim as the quote is using the shear amount of information needed to suggest the difficulty of calculating how much homeless Vietnam vets will cost American taxpayers.

“There were 2.4 million soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and while no one is sure what PTSD among them will ultimately cost us, either, everyone agrees on one thing: If it’s not effectively treated, it won’t go away. When Caleb checked into his VA inpatient therapy in 2010, more than two-thirds of his fellow patients were veterans of Vietnam.”

This is a numerical/factual claim as the claim uses the number of deployed soldiers as the targeted subjects of the study and makes a true claim of something never being gone until effectively treated.

“Vietnam vets still make up the bulk of Danna’s clients…”

This is a factual claim as Danna knows that Vietnam vets make up the most of her clients.

“Many people at her fundraiser are saying that she saved their lives, kept them from killing themselves, kept them off the streets—or out of the woods, as it were, where she sometimes found vets living on earth floors under cardboard boxes.”

This is a casual claim as it is suggesting that through Danna’s help with the Vietnam vets, she stopped them from harming and killing themselves as a cause-and-effect relationship.

“Steve served in Vietnam, fought in the Tet Offensive.”

This is a factual claim as Steve already told Danna that he fought in Vietnam and in the Tet Offensive.

“…and now you have never seen two people so in love in any double-wide in the United States.”

This is an evaluative claim as it is making the assumption based on the evaluation of the behavior of Steve’s situation that there is nobody that can be ass happy in a double-wide in the rest of the country.

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Claims- person345

Posted on February 21, 2021 by person345

“Brannan knows what a difference that makes.”

This sentence is an example of a proposal claim because, the author is claiming that Brannan “knows” what a difference that something makes. It is proposed that Brannan knows this.

“She hasn’t seen any other therapist, or a therapist trained to deal with PTSD”

This is an example of a Factual Claim because it is known without a doubt that Katie has not seen a therapist to deal with her PTSD.

“Since the volunteer therapist she tried briefly herself spent more time asking her to explain a ‘bad PTSD day’ than how Caleb’s symptoms were affecting the family.”

This is an example of an Ethical or Moral Claim because, it expresses a moral judgement that she tried to explain something.

“When I visited, Katie was not covered by the VA under Caleb’s disability; actually, she wasn’t covered by any insurance at all half the time, since the Vineses aren’t poor enough for subsidized health care and the Blue Cross gap insurance maxes out at six months a year.”

This sentence is an example of a Casual Claim. The cause of the family’s inability to get subsidized health care is because they technically have the means to pay for health care themselves but are not capable because they do not have enough money.

“I’m not for taking her somewhere and getting her labeled. I’d rather work on it in softer ways.”

This is an Ethical or Moral Claim because Brannan does not want Katie to have a diagnosis based on an ethical or moral judgement. Brannan is claiming that doctors would label her.

“Brannan is a force of keeping her family together.”

This is an Evaluative claim. The author is claiming that Brannan is “a force of keeping her family together.” This is a claim based on Brannan’s character and personality. It can be arguable.

“That’s typical parent stuff, but Brannan also keeps Caleb on his regimen of 12 pills—antidepressants, anti-anxiety, sleep aids, pain meds, nerve meds, stomach meds—plus weekly therapy, and sometimes weekly physical therapy for a cartilage-lacking knee and the several disintegrating disks in his spine.”

This is a Categorial Claim because the author is claiming that Caleb must take these medications by naming the types of medicine.

“Lots of guys are coming back with maybe from enduring all the bomb blasts, and speech therapy for the TBI, and continuing tests for a cyst in his chest and his 48-percent-functional lungs.”

This is an example of a Factual Claim because the author is stating that tests are being done for a cyst in 48% percent of his lungs. Since there is a percentage, it must be true without doubt.

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Claims- Justheretopass

Posted on February 21, 2021 by justheretopass

“In the wake of Vietnam, 38 percent of marriages failed within the first six months of a veteran’s return stateside; the divorce rate was twice as high for vets with PTSD as for those without.”

This is a factual claim because it states the statistical information of marriages that tend to fail within the first six months of a soldier’s return. 

“Vietnam vets with severe PTSD are 69 percent more likely to have their marriages fail than other vets.”

This is a factual claim because it states the statistical information on a failed marriage with vietnam vets as compared to other vets 

“Army records also show that 65 percent of active-duty suicides, which now outpace combat deaths, are precipitated by broken relationships. And veterans, well, one of them dies by suicide every 80 minutes.”

This is a factual claim because it states the statistical information on active duty suicides. 

“But even ignoring that though vets make up 7 percent of the United States, they account for 20 percent of its suicides —or that children and teenagers of a parent who’s committed suicide are three times more likely to kill themselves, too—or a whole bunch of equally grim statistics, Brannan’s got her reasons for sticking it out with Caleb.”

This is a factual and evaluative claim. It’s a factual claim because of the statistical information presented on percentages of veterans and how much they account for suicide. It’s an evaluative claim because it assesses the matter of suicides in the family. 

“Brannan fully supports any wife—who feels that she or her children are in danger, or in an untenable mental-health environment, or for whatever reason—who decides to leave. But she’s also there for those FOV users who, like her, have decided to stay.” 

This is a moral claim because Brannan places her support for wives who want to leave or stay in the marriage for their reasonings. 

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