Arthur Hubbard another soldier on July 7, 1916 that was in excruciating pain wanted to attempt to set pen to a paper to write his mother and explain to her that he was no longer in France and taken from the battlefields to the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital since he was suffering from shell shock. According to him, his breakdown was related to witnessing a terrible sight that I shall never forget as long as I live .
Arthur Hubbard along with millions of other men suffered psychological trauma due to their war experiences. Uncontrollable diarrhea to relentless anxiety were some of the symptoms. Those soldiers that used their bayonet to defend themselves in combat and bayoneted the enemy face to face developed hysterical spasms in their own facial muscles. Soldiers also experienced stomach cramps who had stabbed their enemy in the abdomen and snipers lost their eyesight, terrifying nightmares of withdrawing the bayonet from the enemies’ bodies also bothered soldiers long after the slaughter.
Large numbers of combatants were not able to cope with the ideas of warfare which was starting to …show more content…
Shell shock had been understood to be the result of a physical injury to the nerves which was a direct result of being exposed to heavy bombardment or being buried alive. The term shell shock had been created by Charles Myers a trained medical psychologist, who was a medical officer. Myers was brought in to better comprehend and treat the condition. Some of the first cases Myers had described a range of perpetual irregularities like loss of or impaired hearing, sight and sensation, other common physical symptoms tremors, loss of balance, headache, and fatigue could also happen. However, he immediately became upset with the term, in which he recognized that a lot of men who were suffering from the symptoms yet had never seen