1918 Footage of a Shell Shock Victim of WW1, Nice ending...

[Napalm]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=750_1328654127

[NZMark]

This bought tears to my eyes.

[Woolgar]

Sad, even after treatment there are still signs. Did they ever fully recover?

Nick

[NZMark]

My mother's uncle was an ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy - you can imagine what he had to go through to retrieve wounded comrades. Post-war he became a drunk and used to wake up screaming (he lived with us in his later years).
No - I cannot believe they ever fully recover.
Mark

[Tobysauer]

They are stuck in that moment of hell
Poor fellows, I think its the worst battle injury you could ever receive

[aeroraider]

Film

i didn't realize that such footage existed.

The film of the wounded is exactly the type of thing that you would't want the folks back home to see.

[Jean-Loup]

There is some similar footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS1dO0JC2EE

I would be curious to know the opinions of psychiatrists and neurologists regarding the symptoms all these patients are dsplaying, and how they compare to modern PTSD cases, etc.

JL

[NZMark]

Possibly quite different today Jean-Loup as the scope of the carnage - although shocking - is diminished in comparison to the compounded horrors of seeing hundreds of your countrymen die in one afternoon - everyday - for weeks on end.
Mark