Claims – rowanstudent

Posted on September 23, 2020 by rowanstudent

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

These couple sentences are making an evaluative claim. “The amount of progress in Caleb’s six years of therapy has been frustrating for everyone.” Is involving judgement of the characteristics of a situation. The judgment of his progress and how it has effected others, and the situation being therapy. The rest of the quotation is where the evaluations are arguable and can be supported by expertise and authority, which in this scene would be Alain Brunet, the Vice President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and Director of the Traumatic Stress Laboratory.

The very last sentence, “Psychotherapy does work for typical PTSD,”is a casual claim because it has assertions of cause and effect.

“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.”

The first sentence of this next section is making a definition claim, giving a brief definition and explanation of cognitive- behavioral therapy and exposure therapy.

“Some state VA offices also offer group therapy. For severe cases, the agency offers inpatient programs, one of which Caleb resided in for three months in 2010. The VA also endorses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy(EMDR), which is based on the theory that memories of traumatic events are, in effect, improperly stored, and tries to refile them by discussing those memories while providing visual or auditory stimulus.”

This area is making a definition claim, stating what EMDR therapy is.

“There’s a fairly strong consensus around CBT and EMDR,” Brunet says. While veterans are waiting for those to work, they’re often prescribed complicated antidepressant-based pharmacological cocktails.”

I believe these statements to be an ethical claim, it is showing fault in some forms of treatment which is leading veterans to be prescribed complicating antidepressant based cocktails possibly worsening their situation.

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Claims – shadowswife

Posted on September 23, 2020 by shadowswife

Her schoolmate said something mean. Maybe. Katie doesn’t sound sure, or like she remembers exactly. One thing she’s positive of: “She just made me…so. MAD.”

  • This is an example of a casual claim because of how it is an assertion of a cause and effect. The cause: Kate’s schoolmate said mean to her. The effect: Katie grew angered as a result.
  • This is an example of an evaluative claim because of how Brannan is judging Katie’s tone as vague when she makes her claim.

Brannan asks Katie to name some of the alternatives. “Walk away, get the teacher, yes ma’am, no ma’am,” Katie dutifully responds to the prompts.

  • This is an example of a recommendation and/or claim because of how Brannan advises Katie to walk away from the situation and tell the teacher.

She looks disappointed in herself. Her eyebrows are heavily creased when she shakes her head and says quietly, “I was so mad.”

  • This is an example of an analogy claim because of how Brannan is making this claim based off on how Katie looks and analyzing her facial expressions and body language.
  • This is also an example of an evaluative claim because of how Brannan is evaluating Katie’s body language.

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Claims-rowanstudent24

Posted on September 23, 2020 by rowanstudent24

Whatever is happening to Caleb, it’s as old as war itself.

-This is an analogy claim because it’s comparing what’s happening to Caleb to war

The ancient historian Herodotus told of Greeks being honorably dismissed for being “out of heart” and “unwilling to encounter danger.” Civil War doctors, who couldn’t think of any other thing that might be unpleasant about fighting the Civil War but homesickness, diagnosed thousands with “nostalgia.” Later, it was deemed “irritable heart.” In World War I it was called “shell shock.” In World War II, “battle fatigue.” 

– This is a factual claim because this all actually happened throughout history and it can be proven through evidence.

It wasn’t an official diagnosis until 1980, when Post Traumatic Stress Disorder made its debut in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, uniting a flood of Vietnam vets suffering persistent psych issues with traumatized civilians—previously assigned labels like “accident neurosis” and “post-rape syndrome”—onto the same page of the DSM-III.

-These sentences are a factual claim and a quantitative claim. This is a factual claim because it talks about the official diagnosis in 1980 and can be proven through evidence. This is a quantitative claim because it is stating an amount of war veterans that suffer from Psych issues.

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Claims- clementine102

Posted on September 23, 2020 by clementine102

…diagnosing PTSD is a tricky thing.

This is an evaluative claim because it is is suggesting that due to the uncertainties of the signs of PTSD, it is hard for some doctors to diagnose PTSD but it doesn’t include “all doctors” have trouble doing this. This is a judgement whether or not PTSD is hard to diagnose or not.

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 causes ranging from one lightning-fast event to drawn-out terrors or patterns of abuses.

This is a casual claim because it is talking about the common cause and effects of having PTSD.

–in soldiers, the incidence of PTSD goes up with the number of tours and amount of combat experienced.

This is an analogy claim because they talk about how the number of tours and the amount of combat experience the soldier has is directly related to the increase of the incidence of PTSD. There is similarity and relation between how much the soldier goes through and the incidence of PTSD.

Doctors have to go on hunches and symptomology rather than definitive evidence.

This is a factual claim because the writer is saying the doctors have to go with their gut based on the patients symptoms because there are no measurable objective biological characteristics to identify PTSD.

And the fact that the science hasn’t fully caught up with the suffering

This is an evaluative claim because the author is judging how we still do not have a lot of information about PTSD and the symptoms of people who have it.

This is also an ethical or moral claim because he says that people with PTSD suffer so much that scientist and doctors should have more information on it to help them.

Caleb knows that a person whose problem is essentially that he can’t adapt to peacetime Alabama sounds, to many, like a pussy.

This is an evaluative claim because it is making a judgement on how people perceive Caleb with PTSD. He gives sympathy to Caleb more than he thinks society gives him.

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Claims — SmilingDogTheProfWants

Posted on September 23, 2020 by SmilingDogTheProfWants

Now, he’s rounder, heavier, bearded, and long-haired, obviously tough even if he weren’t prone to wearing a COMBAT INFANTRYMAN cap, but still not the guy you picture when you see his “Disabled Veteran” license plates. Not the old ‘Nam guy with a limp, or maybe the young legless Iraq survivor, that you’d expect.

This paragraph as a whole closely resembles a categorical claim, insisting that almost everything about her husband appears normal, but he falls under the category of “Disabled Veteran.” The mentioning of someone from “Nam” or the legless person are presented in order to show that though her husband appears different he is in just as bad, if not worse, a state as others, categorizing him as a different/abstract view of “disabled veteran.”

Not the old ‘Nam guy with a limp, or maybe the young legless Iraq survivor, that you’d expect.

This line is an analogy claim. Although I stated that it is used to categorize her husband it also makes the claim that he is different but also equal to the “Nam guy” and “legless Iraq survivor” because of that title “Disabled Veteran.”

but still not the guy you picture when you see his “Disabled Veteran” license plates.

This is an evaluative claim as the author decides to present the image of what a “Disabled Veteran” would look like in the eyes of a normal person that doesn’t deal with people that have that title. But this may also be a causal claim because the author wouldn’t know who the viewers of her article may be and what they expect of a “Disabled Veteran,” but figures that the average person wouldn’t think of mental issues for a veteran that’s been in combat.

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Claims- Pardonmyfrench

Posted on September 23, 2020 by pardonmyfrench13

“At home after school, she makes Katie a pancake snack and then, while Katie shows me the website for a summer camp that teaches military spy skills, Brannan gets back to work.”

Claim:

-This is an evaluative claim. Being described is how busy her daily routine is as a mom trying to keep it all together because of dealing with PTSD.

“Because she also helps thousands of other people—measured by website and social-media interactions—through Family of a Vet, a nonprofit created “to help you find your way, find the information you need, and find a way not only to cope with life after combat…but to survive and thrive!”

Claims:

-The first part of the claim is a quantitive claim. Brennan does in fact help thousands of people through her job at the VA, her nonprofit, and her family life. This is all which measured out through a social media website and counted.

-The second part of the sentence is an evaluative claim. It is talking about and evaluating life after the military and making the judgment all life after combat needs help coping with.

“Brannan founded the organization in 2007, after panicked Googling led her to the website of Vietnam Veteran Wives (VVW) when Caleb returned from his second tour. Life after the first tour had been pretty normal.”

Claims:

-The first sentence is a causal claim. Brennan founded the organization because Caleb had returned home from war.

-The second sentence is an evaluative claim because it is describing the situation after he returned home.

“Things were a little…off,” Caleb was edgy, distant, but he did not forget entire conversations minutes later, did not have to wait for a stable mental-health day and good moment between medication doses to be intimate with his wife, and then when he finally tried, pray to Christ for one of the times when it’s good sex”

Claim:

-This is a is a category claim. All of these different things could go into the category of someone who deals and has symptoms of PTSD when they return home.

“One of the times when a car door slams outside and triggers him, or the emotion becomes so unbearable that he freezes, gets up, and walks wordlessly out the door.”

Claim:

-This is a causal claim. Since we know he has PTSD from earlier in the text we can now realize that these are the daily things that didn’t use to bother him that do now due to combat. Without going to war he would never have had trigger such as these making is causation.

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Claims-ComicDub

Posted on September 23, 2020 by comicdub

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

-This is an example of an evaluative claim. Brannan evaluated that Caleb’s behavior was different from before the second tour leading her to claim that it was after the tour that he started to show strange behavior.

Brannan was in a terrible place, she says—until she talked to Danna Hughes, founder of VVW.

-This is an example of a causal claim. Brennan is claiming that she got out of a terrible situation because she talked to Danna Hughes. 

Danna had been through much of the exact same turmoil, decades ago, and had opened a center to help get Vietnam vets benefits and educate their spouses and communities about their condition.

-This is an example of a comparative claim. The author compares Brannans situation to what Danna has been through and makes the claim that they went through the exact same turmoil.

-This is also a factual claim. The author writes that Danna opened a center to help Vietnam vets and this is a fact.

“What choice do I have?” Brannan asks about running her own organization.

-This is an example of an evaluative claim. Brannan evaluates that based on her situation, she has no choice but to seek help.

“This is the only reason I am well. People care when you tell them. They just don’t know. They want to help and they want to understand, so I just have to keep going and educating.”

-This is an example of an ethical/moral claim. Brannan is claiming that people care but they just don’t know. This is judging the morals of people which might not be true.

-This is also a causal claim. Brannan is saying that she has to keep educating people because they want help and want to understand.

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Claims-profs22

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Jessicariccio

“Unlike PTSD, secondary traumatic stress doesn’t have its own entry in the DSM, though the manual does take note of it, as do many peer-reviewed studies and the Department of Veterans Affairs.”

Claims:

Secondary traumatic stress does not have its own category like PTSD. The manual does not cover all topics.

Secondary traumatic stress is not considered as important as PTSD.

 PTSD is held at a higher rate.

“Symptoms start at depression and alienation, including the “compassion fatigue” suffered by social workers and trauma counselors.”

Claims:

Depression and alienation are only some of the symptoms.

Physical and emotional exhaustion is experienced by those who are there to provide help to people with PTSD.

Symptoms of those with PTSD can be passed on to others causing secondary traumatic stress.

“But some spouses and loved ones suffer symptoms that are, as one medical journal puts it, “almost identical to PTSD except that indirect exposure to the traumatic event through close contact with the primary victim of trauma” is the catalyst.”

Claims:

People who spend a lot of time around those with PTSD experienced the same symptoms.

It is not physically as contagious as touching someone and giving them PTSD but more of mentally transferring it.

 “Basically your spouse’s behavior becomes the “T” in your own PTSD.”

Claims:

Close loved ones take a part of the PTSD and make it into their own mental illness.

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Claims-JeffBezos

Posted on September 23, 2020 by jeffbezos123

“Sometimes I can’t do the laundry,” Brannan explains, reclining on her couch. “And it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m too tired to do the laundry,’ it’s like, ‘Um, I don’t understand how to turn the washing machine on.’ I am looking at a washing machine and a pile of laundry and my brain is literally overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to reconcile them.” 

This remark is a casual claim. This is fairly staright forward becuase you can figure out by her tone that she is experencing PTSD.

We raise the blinds in the afternoons, but only if we are alone. 

In this statement she is stating a factual claim. If you can prove that she only raises the blinds when she is alone she is stating a fact. You could also say that this is a casual claim. This is because she just tells us that she only puts the blinds up in the afternoon

“…And she’s helping people.”

This is a moral claim because you see that she is nice enough to go out of her way and help people. There are people that need help and she is there for them

In one study, the incidence of secondary trauma in wives of Croatian war vets with PTSD was 30 percent. In another study there, it was 39 percent.

This is a numerical claim. This is because she is providing staticical factors to show you the incidence of secondary trama in wives.

“if you asked the VA to treat your kids, they would think it was nonsense” 

This here is a factual claim because you can only recieve VA benifits if you once served in the miltary. I know this because my dad is a veterian and the I recieve benifets for schooling only because of this.

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Claims-Sonnypetro29

Posted on September 23, 2020 by sonnypetro29

“Brannan gave the packet to Katie’s kindergarten teacher, but thinks the teacher just saw it as an excuse for bad behavior. Last fall, she switched Katie to a different school, where she hopes more understanding will lead to less anxiety. Though Brannan hopes Katie will come out of childhood healthy, she still says, “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.”

“Last fall, she switched Katie to a different school” this is an Evaluative claim. She hopes that by changing her to a different school it might help out with her anxiety.

She’s a grown-up in a six-year-old’s body in a lot of ways.” this is a casual claim there is nothing else to it besides that her mom thinks she is to grown up to be in a 6 year olds body. She wants her daughter to have a good childhood and grow up healthy and not have to live like she is older than she really is.

“We await the results of the 20-year, 10,000-family-strong study of impacts on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans’ kin” this is a numerical claim because they are waiting for a number to come back from the study to see how many other families have been affected by PTSD.

“if you asked the VA to treat your kids, they would think it was nonsense” This is a factual claim because the VA only helps out the people who have been in war.

“VA if the organization would treat kids for secondary trauma” This is an Ethical claim The VA should help everyone in the family who is affected by PTSD

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