Even today, there are many people whose psyche is declining despite not having been involved in a conflict and having served in the military for a few months. Taken from the familiar surroundings intense discipline and pressure People who are forcibly brought into an environment can develop permanent psychological problems.

Think also of the situation of those who are in conflict, those who are at war. People who find themselves in the midst of hell in their early teens mental health they can be lost.

Shellshock was first described by British psychologist Charles Samuel Myers during World War I.

In 1914, in the early stages of World War I, British soldiers began reporting post-war medical symptoms such as tinnitus, amnesia, headaches, dizziness, tremors and sensitivity to sound. Normally, these symptoms should occur after a physical injury to the brain, but most patients have it in their head. No signs of wound were found.

Photos of soldiers experiencing “bullet shock” show the war at its most disturbing.

The men in the war environment felt they could die at any moment from the sudden emotional change to which they were subjected. senseless acts He did and played his gestures meaningless.

bombed, the catastrophic death of close friends at their hands, malnutrition and sleep, fear of death Problems such as despair, inability to reason, inability to sleep, inability to walk, and inability to speak, which arose as a result of intense panic caused by factors such as

The incidence of bullet shock increased in 1915 and 1916, but was poorly understood medically and psychologically.

Some doctors believe this is caused by exploding bullets and bombs. shock waves He believed it was the result of latent physical damage to the brain by causing a brain injury. Another explanation was that the bullet shock was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning caused by the explosions.

At the same time, the bullet shock is not physical, but an emotional injury An alternative vision has been developed. Because some men who showed symptoms of bullet shock were not exposed to intense fire. It couldn’t just be attributed to bodily harm, as the symptoms also occurred in men who were not near an exploding bomb.

Research from Johns Hopkins University in 2015 found that war veterans exposed to explosives had an injury in the brain tissue responsible for decision-making, memory and reasoning.

This evidence led the researchers to conclude that bullet shock may not just be a mental disorder. Even small changes in air pressure were associated with differences in behavior. According to this explosions on the battlefield causes massive pressure changes, causing hidden damage to the brain.

Although there were cases of bullet shock, about 75% of the soldiers were re-enlisted without being referred to the hospital for specialist treatment.

So many soldiers suffered from bullet shock that 19 British military hospitals were completely devoted to treating these cases. Ten years after the war, 65,000 war veterans He was still being treated in England.

Some doctors used brutal methods to treat soldiers’ bullet shock.

The doctors told them, hoping that the soldiers would return to their pre-war selves. Electric shock would give. For a year, a British doctor, Lewis Yealland, tried to treat one of his patients by giving him an electric shock and putting a cigarette on his tongue. “You don’t leave this room. Until you speak as well as you used to…”

Some men shocked by bullets were tried and even executed for military crimes such as desertion and cowardice.

These ailments in soldiers were seen by some as a symptom of an underlying weakness of character. 346 soldiers like “cowardice”, “disobedience” He was executed under pretext. In 1917 “bullet shock” was completely banned as a diagnosis in the British army, and even mentioned in medical journals was censored. On November 7, 2006, the British government granted an amnesty to the executed soldiers, but it was too late.

In this video you can see the fear experienced by soldiers who suffer from the disease.

The decision-makers at the head of governments have “forced” millions of soldiers into the middle of hell without experiencing this atmosphere, and they continue to do so.

A still from the movie “Breath: Thanks to the Homeland”

Even if the young men survived the war, some were executed, some for life. mental load was forced to move.

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