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Main Forums => Living With HIV => Topic started by: tednlou2 on November 30, 2010, 03:31:10 am

Title: The AM Article on PTSD Is Done
Post by: tednlou2 on November 30, 2010, 03:31:10 am

I was reading the articles on the homepage of AM, and I saw the story about HIV and PTSD that David Evans was searching for forum participants.  Kill is featured.  It is a good article.   
   

http://www.poz.com/articles/Stress_PTSD_HIV_2546_19373.shtml

Title: Re: The AM Article on PTSD Is Done
Post by: Matty the Damned on November 30, 2010, 05:39:04 am

From the article:

Until 1980, PTSD didn’t have its own formal diagnostic criteria. But the syndrome has long been known to those who treat veterans; it was called “soldier’s heart” during the Civil War and “shell shock” after World War II.

In fact, "shell shock" was a term coined during and applied after World War I. I believe this was because of the particular features of trench warfare.

(link) (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWshellshock.htm)

By the conclusion of World War II, I understand that "battle fatigue" was the term du jour and "shell shock" as a diagnostic label had been eschewed by clinicians.

MtD