Doubtfull. |
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You get Post War Syndrom after going to war and seeing horrable things so could you dream you were in a war and wake up with post war syndrom? |
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I don't think so... People experience horrible things in their dreams all the time. That's what nightmares are. Even if you don't consciously realize you're dreaming, your mind still knows it and how to seperate it from reality. |
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Sure, in the sense that if you convince yourself you have post war syndrome, you'll definitely have post war syndrome. |
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i agree with Khaz. i don't believe it is possible to wake from a dream and find that you have now suddenly developed a psychological disorder. and if you have a shrink that prescribes pills on face value, you should get a new one. |
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i think this could start an intresting debate. did they have post war syndrome? did they have psychotics? many of todays' mentaly ill pateints were described in history as being posessed, burnt by the stake or exiled. as far as post war syndome, it might be possible that the soldiers just didn't live long enough to experience it, there being no antibiotics nor specialized surgery. does anyone know the life expectancy of an average roman, greek or barbarian soldier? |
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When you say Post War Syndrome, don't you really mean Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? People can get this from experiences other than war. |
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Well yes, Merck, if you need to be technical, the correct term is in fact post traumatic stress disorder, i.e. a mental disorder caused by an event outside the range of normal human experience. It could be reasoned that the people of ancient times were more adapted to the horrors of war, it being more a part of their existence than we experience it today. After all, they had been at war for a longer period of time than we were. But does it really exclude them from having a post traumatic episode or disorder? I don’t believe it is within the normal range of the human psyche to ever come to terms with the atrocities of war without some psychological scarring. |
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"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I think it takes much longer periods of exposure and many more factors than just "seeing horrible things." Otherwise horror and war movies would be illegal I'm sure. |
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It doesn't matter, if horror/war movies were outlawed, they would still be made. And rest assured, if wars were illegal ( just in the U.S.?) they would DEFINATELY still happen. If someone had come up with an idea on how to stop wars, that actually worked, then I think we'd know. |
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