https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/world-war-i-pilot-ptsd-180967710/#pbX9gfQ1Sl8QDEUt.99
The Dark Side of Glory
An early glimpse of PTSD in the letters of World War I aces.
Read more at https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/world-war-i-pilot-ptsd-180967710/#kBFDemasmMGYGQEY.99
The following is possibly the most true thing I've ever read, it's a man who is losing it, and he knows that he's losing his grip on himself...it's sad, it's poigniant and it's a glimpse into something that I hope none of us has to deal with:
“It’s only a question of time until we all get it. I’m all shot to pieces. I only hope I can stick it out. I don’t want to quit. My nerves are all gone, and I can’t stop. I’ve lived beyond my time already. It’s not the fear of death that’s done it. It’s this eternal flinching from it that’s doing it, and has made a coward out of me. Few men live to know what real fear is. It’s something that grows on you, day by day, that eats into your constitution and undermines your sanity. I have never been serious about anything in my life, and now I know that I’ll never be otherwise again. Here I am, twenty four years old. I look forty and feel ninety. I’ve lost all interest in life beyond the next patrol.”
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