Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or ‘Shell Shock’ as it was caused in WWI, manifests itself in many forms and can take many years to surface. Often the act of simply talking about it to strangers or putting it on paper has the desired effect, and recovery can begin. Some veterans however will never be able to overcome their nightmares, and for them they remain haunted by events that to ‘outside eyes’, may seem trivial or horrendous. Bill has managed to overcome his terrors after 50 years by talking recently about the terrors that affected him for so many years. He expands on it here. |