
Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know
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The Psychiatric Symptoms of the First Bubble
Louis Palu on Instagram was asked, were there any psychiatric symptoms particularly prevalent in soldiers who fought in the first bubble and in particular in the trenches? The answer is no. We used to call it shell shock. Shell shock doesn't exist. It's a collation of symptoms, which we would now recognize as being post-traumatic stress. And this is caused by a variety of things, mainly stress. Do you know people would have been... They'd stammer, obviously you can imagine. But some were struck mute. Some couldn't hear anything. Somehow they lost their sense of its brain. Some became blind. Couldn't see. There were some awful things like officers are
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