I just wondered something about the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from soldiers:
The first World War is widely known to be the first war in which PTSD, known as "shell shock" at this time, became a wide spread problem among soldiers. I can understand that the circumstances of the first World War would probably be much more stressfull for the soldiers than wars before - the time of short, large scaled battles was over, instead death could lure every minute by being blasted away from an artillery grenade or by a trench raid. Still I could imagine that soldiers developped similar symptoms even earlier. Seeing your pals getting slaughtered no matter how should shake most people.
Does anyone know of "shell shock" before the first World War?
The first World War is widely known to be the first war in which PTSD, known as "shell shock" at this time, became a wide spread problem among soldiers. I can understand that the circumstances of the first World War would probably be much more stressfull for the soldiers than wars before - the time of short, large scaled battles was over, instead death could lure every minute by being blasted away from an artillery grenade or by a trench raid. Still I could imagine that soldiers developped similar symptoms even earlier. Seeing your pals getting slaughtered no matter how should shake most people.
Does anyone know of "shell shock" before the first World War?