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Originally Posted by Hottentot
Though likewise the same 50 years ago you would have more likely just been told to "snap out of it" instead of being recognized as someone needing help. Or that's the case in here at least.
A person whom I used to call a relative often pompously ranted how "people these days are good for nothing and need help for everything, whereas in 1940s men returning from the war needed no aid for returning to normal life." What he happily failed to notice and never accepted even shown it was that the vets were very prone, for example, to become alcoholics and had various other problems about which we even today rarely talk about.
Yeah, it sure feels that these days everyone is depressed or has some other form of diagnosis behind which some of them also hide. Schools are full of students with "mental problems" which even in my youth would have been classified as just being a little shy, more active than normal or whatever. I'd still rather take that over the former relative's fantasy world any day.
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That's a great point. We went from "cowardice" to "shell shock" in WW1 to "combat fatigue" or "exhaustion" in WW2 to "post traumatic stress disorder". It's kind of neat to see how the term used to describe the condition has become more descriptive and accurate as we have learned more and more about it.