Shock In Soldiers

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Trembling, confused of what to do, or what the sharp ringing sound is occurring around the battlefield. The activities of the battlefield did not seem real, and the generals would not allow any sort of compassion for anyone. No one knew how to help the ones inflicted, or what was going on. Soldiers, mainly throughout the World Wars, would experience psychological problems that were unable to be prevented, and were not treated well. Many argue that the soldiers might have been faking their illnesses to avoid fighting, and that soldiers were unfaithful causing them to avoid allowing the soldiers on leave of battle. However, they did not realize what the soldiers were going through, or what was going on. Due to the fact that there were cases …show more content…

While soldiers experienced “shell shock,” they had symptoms such as confusion, dizziness, or headaches, but the medics and generals interpreted these conditions as signs of weakness or fear within the soldiers (American Psychological Association). While the soldiers experienced this trauma, they would not be pulled aside to heal, and were left to continue to fight in the fields. Since the soldiers were left unattended of their illness, their symptoms would worsen and they would eventually experience death (American Psychological Association). The doctors knew little about the conditions the soldiers were experiencing, so the only known way to treat them was to go from gentle to cruel punishments. A new way of treating them was placed by giving them more discipline. Discipline included giving the soldiers electric shock therapy so that they would paralyze the nerves and the soldiers would not feel anymore pain to continue to fight during war (Joanna Bourke). Soldiers in war were not to be taking war lightly, so cruel punishments were to set them straight (American Psychological Association). Treating the soldiers with more discipline did not help the cases in decreasing the amount of soldiers who needed to get out of combat fighting since the treatments, electric shock especially, caused adverse conditions and even worse conditions such as death. (research amount of people affected if

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