Introduction For many military service members, stress during combat is an everyday occurrence, which is tied to their survival in those austere environments. Additionally, there are many elements in combat that can affect the minds of combat veterans temporarily or permanently based on their personal experiences. And since their survival in combat depends on their experiences, managing some of that stress can be harmful as it could affect their wits. However, in many cases, when in garrison, combat veterans do not learn to manage those stressful experiences in combat, which served them well in war. As a result, they develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is an anxiety disorder in response to a dangerous ordeal or witnessing a significant life event (NIMH, n. d). Posttraumatic stress disorder, just like any stress, is linked to stimuli that Watson and Shalev (2005) have called “primary stressors.” Most treatments for PTSD aim to strengthen resilience and develop coping mechanisms. One of the ways to treat PTSD is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). One of the three approaches of CBT is the use of “exposure therapy” in which the client is placed in a safe and relatively similar trauma environment to help them cope (NIMH, n.d.). However Watson and Shalev (2005) warned to apply stressors only for a limited duration and to prevent the “bio-psychological system” from fracturing, the application of stressors cannot exceed the client's resilience threshold. For this reason, I hypothesize that the gradual application of simulated stressors over a period of time in a safe and controlled environment could be useful in helping combat veterans cope with or manage their PTSD. Purpose The purpose of this experimental study is to test stress. ..... half of the document ...... and ethics including informed consent, humane treatment of all participants and at any time when participants believe they are in danger or that the treatment is not what they had provided, they have the right to request to be excluded from the experiment. Because of the complexity of PTSD, this is one of the reasons I wanted to do gradual exposure to reduce the overwhelming response of that experience. Works Cited Lyons, J. A., & Keane, T. M. (1992). Keane PTSD Scale: MMPI and MMPI-2 update. Journal Of Traumatic Stress, 5(1), 111-117. National Institute of Mental Health (n.d.). Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Mental Health. Excerpt Watson, P. J., & Shalev, A. Y. (2005). Evaluation and treatment of acute adult responses to traumatic stress following mass traumatic events. CNS spectra 2005 February;10(2):123-31.