If you watch videos online of shell shock theres all kinds of weird symptoms. Dancing, jumping up and down, seizure like convulsions. But I’ve never seen a modern example of this. From my understanding, modern PTSD is the same thing as shell shock or in WW2 “combat fatigue”. Why is that?
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There are degrees of trauma with PTSD. The videos of WW1 victims that I think you’re referring to involve people who have endured the extremes of a global war. This exists today, but thankfully on a smaller scale. PTSD can also occur from a singular isolated event such as a car accident.
Many soldiers in WW1 would endure day after day up to months of death, violence, starvation, explosions, more death, no sleep, more violence, more death, more explosions…
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