PTSD Question 9

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Human health as a value of contemporary society can influence the focus of scientific research referring to the disease of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To have a stable human health means to have a healthy physical and mental lifestyle. This means that people who have experienced war, like veterans, are most likely to have PTSD and are mentally unstable. Therefore, as a helpful community who cares about human health, we put our focus in how we can help those who are suffering not only from PTSD. Over 31,000 people committed suicide after being diagnosed with PTSD and that statistic is what influences our focus to the people who suffer with mental illness and how we can prevent PTSD.    

By guiding our scientific research in PTSD means we are helping millions of people who are going through or have been through a mentally unstable time in their lives. About 20 out of every 100 Veterans have PTSD in a given year, creating an unhealthy mental lifestyle due to the traumatic events that occur in war. By focusing on this disorder we can help the veterans overcome this disease, and improving the quality of life. We are also improving the health of individuals when finishing serving our country and risking their own lives to help keep our country safe.

However, putting our focus in just one of the hundreds of mental illness means that the amount of people suffering from other mental disease will sky rocket. For example depression has affected millions of people and is the main cause of millions of suicidal deaths. In just one year, there were approximately 41,149 reported suicide deaths caused by depression. In relation to the non-infectious disease PTSD that only 31,000 people committed suicide in one year. This shows that we should be focusing on more suicidal mental diseases that cause human health to be at risk and research how to cure and help the individuals.

Human health does influence our focus in scientific research referring to the disease of PTSD. This statement is accurate in the thought of what we research is to help others who are in need of it, and people with mental illness such as PTSD need it. However, this is an unjust statement and we should be focusing on all diseases and especially the diseases that are killing majority of people in our society like depression and figure out how to cure all.