Shell-shock went from being considered a legitimate physical injury to being a sign of weakness, of both the battalion and the soldiers within it. One historian estimates at least 20 percent of men ...

Shell shock is a term originally coined in 1915 by Charles Myers to describe soldiers who were involuntarily shivering, crying, fearful, and had constant intrusions of memory. It is not a term used in ...

From the 18th century through the Civil War, what we now know as PTSD was called “nostalgia,” which became “soldier’s heart” and “shell shock” or “battle fatigue” in later wars, according to the ...