I believe that in the situation you mention, the person in the non-stressful would be most likely diagnosed with some mental degeneration, paranoia or anxiety, etc. The suggestion is that one of the symptoms of this kind of injury is PTSD. More research need to be done though, and they can only really do this research on brain tissue post mortem. Just as a side note, I don't mean to imply that all PTSD comes from blast waves, just that the soldiers with these type brain injuries all seem to exhibit signs of PTSD. If you have a loved one that was exposed to this, or diagnosed with (combat) PTSD, you should really watch the 60 Minutes on it. I can't even imagine what WWI trench warfare must have been like. He's seen someone's eardrums burst because of blast waves, I can only imagine this does a similar number on the brain. My hubby was a combat engineer and they are more exposed to these blasts than regular infantry. He also infers that the PTSD is a symptom of this type of brain scarring. The neuropathologist actually compared this soldiers injuries to the brains of football players and repeated concussion type patients, and the injuries are distinctly different.
Here a critical analysis about this film, indeed a lot was reenacted: To clarify which videos I wasn't sure about: Other points brought up were gas and general living in the hellholes known as trenches. The main point that kept coming up was the constant shelling on the trenches as a main trigger for psychological shock, while also others argued that shelling most likely would give physical brain trauma which might be the main causing effect. Now, I'm aware that shell shock is just the term used back then for PTSD and it is technically the same thing.īut have we seen these kind of spastic, epileptic symptoms of PTSD since WW1 (or maybe WW2)? I have never seen more modern instances, which are similar to the kind of descriptions and videos of WW1 shell shocked soldiers.ĭoes it happen, but much rarer because noone is really put into this horrific, long-term kind of trench warfare anymore? Or is it just a taboo we don't hear much about?Įdit: thank you everybody, great answers and discussions. Nevermind, reading further into it, that seems to be one of the major symptoms of soldiers from the trenches, who were described as shell shocked (apparently more on the German side than the allies). Some of those videos were about a doctor who could apparently heal this behaviour within a day, which made me kinda question those videos a bit. I've been checking out some videos of people walking disfunctionally or with spasms and epileptic kinda behaviour (very disturbing stuff). I'm listening to Dan Carlin's podcast about WW1 ("A blueprint to Armageddon") and he is describing shell shock, including neurological spasms.
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