Sentence examples for trauma of combat from inspiring English sources

Many find it hard to overcome the trauma of combat, or to adjust to civilian life.

Conrad's trauma is also awakened by his family and by familiar things, things that don't fit with a military man's visceral understanding of society, formed by the trauma of combat.

They have ranged from Katie Mitchell's 2004 production of Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis, which tells of an army's preparations for war, to Timberlake Wertenbaker's 2013 version of Sophocles's Ajax, a play that plunges the viewer into the madness of a soldier overwhelmed by the stress and trauma of combat.

It is a rare situation in which our troops and loved ones have the chance to be with a well trained mental health professional for "as long as it takes" to talk about and come to terms with the trauma of combat.

And the classes he takes are part of a $125 million Army-wide program called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, which is intended to help soldiers become more resilient and to help them recognize how the trauma of combat can change them for the better.

These results suggest that the military might be able to predict which soldiers are more vulnerable to the trauma of combat by scanning brains during peacetime.

Like many old soldiers, Moore dislikes recalling the traumas of combat except when he finds himself among men who suffered those traumas themselves.

In the course of that drama, it's not Russell's character but the former fighter pilot played by Andrews who is most conspicuously suffering from the emotional traumas of combat.

Mr. Page is also seeking a measure of peace for his own soul, scarred like his body from the traumas of combat, from nearly fatal wounds and from the loss of friends, trying to put together what he calls "an enormous jigsaw puzzle, bits of sky, bits of earth".

An additional consideration is that some studies have suggested that the presence of PTSD may result in increased reporting of past trauma, although that assertion has been challenged by a recent re-analysis of the trauma histories of combat veterans [ 40].

Batten's concept of 'functional nervous disorder' was broader than Yealland's definition of 'hysterical disorder' and included loss of memory and psychotic syndromes arising in response to the trauma of military combat.