Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Military Personnel in Nigeria: A Social Approach

Abstract

The widespread myriad of emerging security threats in Nigeria makes it qualify for consideration as a social problem and for constituting a serious public health issue to Nigerians and the military combating the situation. Post- traumatic stress disorder is a departure from normal stress that is either related to addiction that is destructive to the individual or addiction as symptomatic of social disorganization as a means of giving oneself to a habit such as drug addiction, tolerance, reinforcement, psychological dependence and withdrawal symptoms or syndromes in an operation that may have resultant effect or high casualty rates such as injuries, gun power mixture or anxiety disorder which develops after exposure to physical harm including personal assaults and other tarrying event in combat trigger post- traumatic stress disorder owing to stress or evoked by significant distress of hyper vigilance and persistent re-experience of anger and co-morbidity or intra psychic malfunctioning, and ante relation with one another as well as social and psychological health disorganization. Little is known about the effective policies towards mitigating the cause and effect since many policies implemented at the military level potentially influence part and side effect on others leaving them with post-traumatic stress disorder. The paper analyzes thus, An Assessment of the military in Nigeria and policies, Post- traumatic stress disorder, Post-military, political analysis.