The District Attorneys Support Veterans
After the Civil War, Americans called it "irritable heart;" following World War I, we called it "shell shock;" then, after World War II, we named it "battle fatigue;" but it was not until 1980 that the medical community gave it a clinical name, "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder." The phenomenon has changed little in 150 years, but it is clear that society must change the way it deals with PTSD.