The Effects Of Mental Illness On British Veterans

After seeing that even the strictest screenings couldn’t really find out who would suffer from a mental illness, officials turned to treatment. Treatment that was use on American Veterans was based around studies that had been conducted in Great Britain, on British Veterans that had suffered from some sort of mental illness. The British had established a three-way solution that had been used during the actual phase of the First World War. The phases establish three centers; each center was designated for a different level of shock within the patient. Both first two phases would require for the patient to return to the front lines after three to four days or at worst after a month of receiving treatment from a psychologist. These psychologist …show more content…
An the answer to that is a resounding no and yes, you have to infer the idea that each person is different and that when it comes to treating them there are a lot of factors to decide whether the person will be clear free from any mental illness. Cases that are worked on from the beginning of symptoms are really easy for the patient along with their therapists to go through with. But when it comes to treating Veterans with a strong case it is completely different. Everything is far more difficult because the degree of the “disease” and how rapidly it has been on upward scale, which is just mounting-on stress. Stress cannot be relieved because of ongoing warfare during duty, so it is logical for the Veteran to explode and feel all the weight fall on them once their back on a safe area. There are programs now that help alleviate the stress factors on each symptom, but it takes time and support for the person to restore themselves for a better future. Yet other case, that are really serious, sometimes require for the person to be sent to a specialized center where the patient may never come back out to live a regular life because of the stage of their illness is at, once treatment has started. We have come a long way since the beginning of treatment during the First World War, but there are still details that science hasn’t been able to solve over