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Shell Shock
Shell Shock
In WWI
Leila C.W and Isabella T
PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder
● Discharging a
weapon
● SA
● Shootings/
Stabbings
● Illness
● Seeing lots of death
● Injuries
● Child hood abuse
●
Symptoms and
treatments then
Treatments often
included:
● Solitary conifinment
● Displinary treatment
● Elctric shock
treatment
● Shaming
● Emnional deprivation
● Execution
● Single dose of ether
●
Shell Shock
Shell Shock is a term Many Soldiers had
coined during the First PTSD (shell shock)
World War. It was used during and after the
as a term for PTSD that war which resulted in
occured due to the war. thousands being
Common reasons for traumatised without
shell shock were
ever receiving care.
physical injury or heavy
bombardment.
Letter From a Shell-Shocked
Soldier
Repetition of Murders