In 1940, people in the United States felt that they were isolated from the war in Europe. This feeling of isolation soon faded. On December 17, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor. The United States was forced to join the war in full force. Young men just starting their lives or preparing to by studying at university knew that they were now likely to be drafted into the armed forces. This fact meant that their lives were forever going to change and possibly be cut very short. Lowell H. Harrison, who was attending Western Kentucky University before the attack, said that "it was still a shock to realize that the United States was actively involved." Soon after saying this, he became a part of the United States Army Reserve. He and many others were ripped out their daily routines because of the war. .
Before the United States' involvement in the war, many young American men were living everyday lives, but now were being forced to leave everything behind to go fight for their country. This action of just leaving everything all at once caused soldiers to experience stress before they even entered combat. A consequence of the United States' sudden involvement in World War II was that the American soldiers would have to endure great amounts of stress, hellish conditions, disturbing ordeals, and countless health problems without even receiving thorough training. All of these things seemed to create weak soldiers who were likely to succumb to a major yet unforeseen and at the time unknown illness called combat exhaustion. Because of this environment where combat exhaustion would flourish, it is possible that nearly all American soldiers suffered some severity of combat exhaustion. Contributing factors were likely the lack of training, mental stress or strain, and intense physical burden. The United States Army would soon find itself struggling to cope with the great amount of soldiers affected by this mental disorder that came to be known as combat exhaustion.
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An athlete, tired from a long day's winning game, might feel eustress in bodily fatigue and exhaustion. ... A stressor has a wide range of possibilities, meaning it can anything from a gunshot reminding a veteran of combat to a slow song that reminds a woman of being raped in her younger years. The nature of a stressor depends greatly and many different factors. ... Task-oriented response involves the implementation of a specific task or behavior in an effort to deal directly with the situation. ... Physical manifestations of sadness come is responses such as crying, mourning, repetiti...
War veterans are also affected by adverse effects of stresses on combat. ... Causes of PTSD can be attributed to risk factors and neurobiological factors. ... Scanning techniques (fMRI, PET) in conjunction with researches were conducted that included cognitive tasks or response to various stimuli. ... Similar results have been obtained from male combat veterans and female nurse veterans with PTSD. Therefore, the amygdala is hyperesponsive which results in the exaggerated response towards fear. ...
