PTSD

In WWI
Leila C.W and Isabella T
PTSD

Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder

PTSD is a psychiatric disorder

that occurs in people who
have witnessed or
experienced traumatic or
disturbing events. It was first
discovered in 1980 in the third
edition of Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders. During the World
Wars, it was often referred to
as “shell shock”.
Modern Symptoms
and causes of PTSD
The causes of PTSD for
modern day :

● 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

^ A letter from a shell-shocked soldier, Lt.

^ An extract from Wilfred Owen’s Poem ‘Mental J H Butlin to “My Dear old Basil”
Cases’ which he wrote while in Craiglockhart War
The letters include his experiences in the
Hospital. It was written based on the Shell Shocked
trenches and his day-to-day military life.
Soldiers in the hospital.
An Analysis
Emotive Language - Intensity

E.g. Shatter of flying muscles, helpless

wander, e.t.c.

Aural technique - Batter of guns and shatter

of flying muscles

Visual Techniques - Description of the

horrors and the Shell- Shocked Soldiers
Alliteration:

Multitudinous Murders , Loved Laughter

Repetition of Murders