Shell shock was a major psychological problem during the first war. It resulted from constant bombings and explosion from the war. The symptoms of shell shock were horrid. In the article “Shell Shock during World War One”, the author Professor Joanna Bourke, concurs , “Symptoms ranged from uncontrollable diarrhoea to unrelenting anxiety” (Bourke). Soldiers suffered from these without any sort of cure. It caused such a psychological impact on soldiers that over eighty percent of patients were not able to return to war (Bourke). Soldiers who had shell shock were taken to hospitals or asylums. At each individual place, treatment was different for each soldier. Every patient was different because each had a different traumatizing experience. In the article “Wounding in World War One”, written by medical historian Julie Anderson, Anderson exclaims, “A final cure often took a long time and consisted of hours of therapy, rest and recuperation” (Anderson). Today, shell shock is referred to as post-traumatic stress disorder and is treated the same way with but with the addition of medications. Without the attention shellshock received, during World War I, medical aid would not have improved to what it had come to during the
Shell shock was a major psychological problem during the first war. It resulted from constant bombings and explosion from the war. The symptoms of shell shock were horrid. In the article “Shell Shock during World War One”, the author Professor Joanna Bourke, concurs , “Symptoms ranged from uncontrollable diarrhoea to unrelenting anxiety” (Bourke). Soldiers suffered from these without any sort of cure. It caused such a psychological impact on soldiers that over eighty percent of patients were not able to return to war (Bourke). Soldiers who had shell shock were taken to hospitals or asylums. At each individual place, treatment was different for each soldier. Every patient was different because each had a different traumatizing experience. In the article “Wounding in World War One”, written by medical historian Julie Anderson, Anderson exclaims, “A final cure often took a long time and consisted of hours of therapy, rest and recuperation” (Anderson). Today, shell shock is referred to as post-traumatic stress disorder and is treated the same way with but with the addition of medications. Without the attention shellshock received, during World War I, medical aid would not have improved to what it had come to during the