Shell Shock and the case of Harry Farr

Excerpt from an edition of "Not Forgotten", a Channel 4 programme on World War One.

It includes archive footage of shell shock patients and discusses the case of Private Harry Farr who was executed for cowardice.

More details:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/01/archive_footage_of_s.html

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• psychopathology
• ptsd
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[beschil]

These discussion boards are a cesspool of stupidity.

[BrionyMae]

this makes me feel sick its so horrible.

[DEMONFREAK93]

if men run away and ther platoon or company is killed and they live they fucking well deserved to be shot. but if they where obviously suffering severely from shell shock i say this to you now field marshall douglas haig, MOVE OUT THE PREHISORICS BUD!!!

[DEMONFREAK93]

thumbs up if u think farrs version of wat the rsm said sounds realisticish

[aMarinedaughter]

I recently saw a documentary that spoke of young men who could not longer bear the strain of living in those trenches being executed. I really can't think of much that could possibly be sadder than that. How miserable that must have been for the wife and children of that man. I guess you could say that the bodies of some were killed in the trenches and others had their spirits killed in the trenches and then their bodies were killed by their own people. Tragic.

[mygoatisdead]

I say even if those that didn't want to fight, to jump over the ridge and attack machine guns were cowards, that doesn't make that bad, nor should we despise them. War is not natural. Slaughtering another human being isn't natural.

Everyone's different. Some have nothing but love in their hearts. Some are born effeminate. Shame on those who despise people too afraid of sacrificing their bodies in these horrific ways.

[ThePrincessMoonbeam]

@MisterBeaucoup After living through very horrible things in my life, I have seen victims of negative dominance laugh it away. Even I have laughed away my dominance since I have seen my mom do the same thing. She is a survivor of WWII japan manchuria.

[ThePrincessMoonbeam]

I have commanded very different troops when needed, but I always did my best to not be away for more then two or three days before returning to my own ranks and I did my absolute best to make sure or groups would not be seperated to be sent to fight with other groups.

[ThePrincessMoonbeam]

What I am about to say is something I have noticed among my own man. If you have very fatherly or motherly male or female soldiers in your troop, who demand their collegues to be fatherly or motherly towards their fellow soldiers, their are less cases of PTSD or shellschock amongst the ranks. It is important however to not make soldiers change to another unit during the war unless it is not possible anyway else.

[Fankas2000]

It's so not fair that commanders who aren't actually fighting accuse others of being a coward

[stunhabter]

@gargbank "Its first known use as a verb meaning to have sexual intercourse is in "Flen flyys", written around 1475." Wikipedia

[neonskuller]

I don't know ??? Like this video or no .. this is terrible