PTSD from WWI and WWII

Shell shock (also called bullet wind, soldier’s heart, battle fatigue, and operational exhaustion) is a phrase coined in World War I to described the type of PTSD many soldiers were afflicted with during the war (before PTSD itself was a term). It is reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic and being scared, or flight, an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk. During the War, the concept of shell shock was ill-defined. Cases of ’