Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can remain challenging for psychiatric doctors to diagnose sometimes. Symptoms of PTSD do not show up right away. Therefore, a psychiatrist may wait up to six …show more content…
In Loughran’s article, Shell Shock, Trauma, and the First World War: The Making of a Diagnosis and Its Histories, Loughran gives great insight about PTSD incidents that happened during the war. Some soldiers came out of the trenches stuttering, trembling or even blind. First documented during WWI, soldiers had nightmares when they accidently killed a comrade. Those situations could have an effect on the physical, physiological, and psychological parts of troops. Throughout most of WWI, a majority of the warfare used shells or missiles. The psychiatrist believed that shell shock was a literal shocking to the brain in the frontal lobe (Rae, 2007). PTSD was not a recognized disorder during those times, many of the soldiers