Battle Quote by Jan Karon

“It was difficult to find information because Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was called shell shock during W.W.II, and when Vietnam Vets were found to…

— Sara Niles

Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're…

— Janine di Giovanni

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

— Laura Hillenbrand

I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I…

— Damian Lewis

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep…

— Fritz Kreisler

“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Maybe PTSD really is triggered by a single incident, a stressor, as it's known in the psychiatric community, and maybe the attack at Al-Waleed…

— Luis Carlos Montalván

Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common…

— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

— Stefan Heym

And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a…

— Karl Marlantes

There's something called toxic stress, which is repeated exposure to trauma. I was fascinated by how it affects the brain and the development of…

— Lynne Ramsay

Let's say you have to catch a plane, and you are packing your suitcase and moving fast. Most people would call that stress. Most…

— Eckhart Tolle