Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a word most commonly associated with fond memories. However, the etymological breakdown indicates that it also deals with a type of pain that accompanies these memories. PTSD is a heightened version of nostalgia. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has only been a part of this world for a short amount of time in everyday lives, but the disease itself has lived on for generations with various incantations of the same syndrome. Whether it is called nostalgia, Shell Shock, or PTSD, the world has found a way to minimize the horrors of this mental disease.
Shell Shock. It has an audible ring that strikes fear into the most iron hearted men. The First World War brought on this term as soldiers from the front line filled up medical

The questions being asked corresponded to whether it should be classified as a short-term or long-term disease. “Because [all] studies were based on the military data... psychologist assumed that cases of PTSD would be short-term” (Anders, 2012). They assumed the military men would forget about their war experiences and would begin to live their normal lives again. Psychologists in 1980 and again in 1992 realized that the “clinical guidelines” of DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and ICD-10 (International Classification of Disease) could show this disease as being chronic and recurrent. Shell Shock would now be seen as an “anxiety disorder” -- something it had never been seen as before (Anders,

These factors of war were embedded into their memories --- things that could not be unseen once they were seen. Men came home experiencing symptoms that would recur in their daily lives - sometimes forever. Symptoms of PTSD could come through three different modes. One, re-experiencing symptoms: nightmares that depicted the exact moments they did not want to see and vivid images and hallucinations that could make a normal setting seem far scarier than it should be. Two, avoiding symptoms: not visiting any place that might look like where the wars took place or avoiding the world as a whole. Three, hyperarousal symptoms: a soldier would feel “on edge” and indifferent about natural settings. Combat veterans experiencing these symptoms were often afflicted for the entirety of their natural born lives (PTSD,