Homework

[piplover]

Writing, or attempting to write, a paper for my historical psych class.  It's not exactly coming along, but I have three days to finish it, so I figure I'm doing good by actually starting it today instead of waiting until Tuesday.  Still... it's actually a rather sad paper, dealing with shell shock and PTSD and how people were treated.  I suffer from PTSD, though not to a great extent, and the thought of those poor soldiers having to live their lives being thought cowards and lunatics.... it makes me want to cry for them.  I love history, but sometimes it brings home how truly fucked up our world is. 

Comments

[dreamflower]

((hugs))

It's very brave of you to tackle a paper on something you have experienced yourself.

At least we now do understand that PTSD is a real thing. I am stunned to realize how little it was understood in the past--even when they first began to give it the name of "shell shock", they still just threw the soldiers right back in to the same situation! Horrible!

[piplover.livejournal.com]

The more I research it the more it gets me - I don't know, angry and frusterated. The poor soldiers were thought to be cowards and often executed! Even today, with all we know about it, there is still such a stigma about it.

(((Hugs)))