WRITE a blog post in which you muse on the connection between Post-traumatic stress disorder and the nature of warfare in WWI. Though PTSD wasn't coined as a name until the late 1970s, do you think it has any relation to the trench warfare of the 1910s?
There is no doubt that soldiers of World War 1 suffered from Post-traumatic stress disorder. The horrors and trauma that the soldiers of World War 1 must have had to face could all be potential incidents to cause the disorder to be inflicted on the person. People with PTSD suffer symptoms such as becoming upset when confronted with a reminder about the trauma, avoiding places or people that remind them of the trauma, and startling easily from slight paranoia. After witnessing comrades and friends die from bombings, bullet wounds, and poison gas, anybody would be traumatized. Being surrounded by constant sickness and death is upsetting also for women nurses who had to tend to the screaming men dying from lost of blood or overwhelming mutilation. Since women are not used to seeing that type of violence during that era, they definitely would be shaken up. Men and women during the First World War certainly can have post-traumatic stress disorder because of the violence and devastation of warfare.
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I think you're totally right about the psychological effects of the multitudinous possible deaths and the and the constancy of them. There's only so much that a person can take, and being exposed to so much sickness and death for so long without any method of escape can really take its toll on a person.
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