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4 unusual facts about Combat stress reaction


Battle fatigue

Combat stress reaction, a military term for an acute reaction to the stress of battle commonly involving fatigue, slowed reaction time, indecision, and other symptoms

Combat stress reaction

Earlier, during the Winter War, several Finnish machine gun operators on the Karelian Isthmus theatre became mentally unstable after repelling several unsuccessful Soviet human wave assaults on fortified Finnish positions

However, in the British Army, since most of the World War I doctors were too old for the job, young, analytically trained psychiatrists were employed.

Graylingwell Hospital

During the Second World War the hospital was not requisitioned but the Summersdale block was commandeered to serve as an acute battle neurosis unit for front-line casualties.



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