I mean war always has been a part of our life since the first civilizations was established. I’m sure “shellshock” wasn’t only caused by artilery shots.
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It’s not new, going back to as long as humans have had warfare probably, but WWI was on a scale and intensity far above and beyond anything that had come before.
Basically, the sample size was vastly increased, allowing scientific study of the victims and a more formal diagnosing criteria to be made.
But even then, what we would now call PTSD, was still debated as to if it even actually existed. Men were executed for “cowardess” during the war and were often called the same after the war.
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