Three times, however, in one century, the victims were so numerous and their trauma so documentable that society could not ignore their suffering - World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. ... Originally, young British soldiers had enlisted for the war with enthusiasm. ... (Fussell 73) World War I, considered one of the greatest conflicts in world history, was new kind of war, a war where you never even met your enemy. ... Worst of all, the war, as Robert Graves noted, seemed to have no end. ... He died in 1937 in a mental hospital where he had continued to write "war poetry" thinkin...

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Soldiers go to war physically, but they return home with the war in their heads. ... Everyone copes and deals with war differently. ... PTSD started with the Vietnam War, the soldiers were thought to be heroes, but no one was aware they were suffering mentally from the devastation of combat, being drafted, and the longevity of war. Begg's (1975) research found the following about PTSD during Vietnam era: The diagnosis was not called PTSD during this era it was called Post Vietnam Syndrome. ... This information shows that Soldiers returning from Vietnam were not treated fairly. ...

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More than half of all male Vietnam veterans and almost half of all female Vietnam veterans have experienced "clinically serious stress reaction symptoms. " PTSD has also been detected among veterans of other wars. Estimates of veterans, who experience PTSD, from the war in Afghanistan, are between 6 and 11%. ... The purpose of this study is to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from the exposure of soldiers to various wars. ... Finally to avoid problems with any future military veterans, who may be at war now or preparing to deploy, it is pertinent to prime and s...

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