6. This World War I Soldier Had a Haunting Form of PTSD
The original term for PTSD was “shell shock.” It referred to soldiers returning home after World War I who had severe mental distress due to their experiences in the trenches. The fighting was so brutal that it literally broke down the minds of the soldiers and altered them forever. While the soldier in this picture appears to be smiling, he was one of 80,000 British soldiers from World War I who developed PTSD because of atrocities that no human should ever experience. The unnatural look on his face leads one to easily believe that the man was not happy; instead, he suffered.