 What about this Mendenau thing you're telling me about well, I Scared you are scared. I don't know. I sometimes I hope something What happened then again? I say well some did how do you mean by something happened? You mean you were hoping that you'd be wounded and sent back as ever you mean no What do you mean by that? I meant it. I I hope that just you know, it's a disgusting Tired of everything. I just Didn't feel like living and then I changed my mind I think about my folks. It'd be a double blow something happen. I mean I'll be standing God sitting on a machine. I'm just watching You know, I'd hear a little noise and I'd let go shoot Was nothing problems and animals any noise made you excited. You just shoot at that time I don't know Are you mixed up? What's that pin on your shirt down? Why do you cover those up? Aren't you proud of them? Yes, you got a purple heart a campaign ribbons Why do you cover them up that you know must be some reason for you doing that? What happened over there? I was in the scrape and I was in the house and Just got off a guard duty and Friday the 13th and sweating it out all day Patrol came up and told me They shut up Hands of fuss through the wall And what I was laying on a couch and right before having a couple of Jerry's laid down on the floor I When I got up again Contrast all torn You know what you're almost killed. Is that it? Most most gone right over my head You feel conscious as are you aware of the fact that you are not the same boy that you were when you went over you feel changed In what way chomping About with people always Like that fun Begone places to oversee We wouldn't any combat at all This is this is next month. I tried every room every way to keep my mind up. Be quiet reading me Going to the gym as you getting Going out with fellas and try to try to become a lecture break try to get out of myself but See to me the one I've got Royce and Royce and After a while I developed a After the fear of Saturday, I decided to develop fears if it's so much Did you ever have similar pains before you got never in my life? Have you ever been nervous before in the most never I was a son There's some noises about here particularly. I did just Well, I guess I just got tired living I had trouble sleeping. Yes had a dreaming of combat, you know I just took off because I I see too much my my buddy's gone and I figured Nick was for me a man to just stand so much up there saying admission note pool POOLE comma Walter L T5 transfer diagnosis anxiety reaction severe active symptoms In remission on this their first night back in the States Each man who is able may make a long distance call about cost After months and years of silence Familiar voices are heard once again Then each man makes for himself a small home Which will be his for the eight or ten weeks to come now in the darkness of the ward Emerge the shapes born of darkness the terror of things half-remembered Dreams of battle a torment of uncertainty and fear and loneliness The day begins with an early morning ward inspection The medical officer in charge checks the condition of every man Modern psychiatry makes no sharp division between the mind and the body Physical ills often have psychic causes Just as emotional ills may have a physical basis Possibilities of organic disturbance in the brain are investigated by means of the electroencephalograph The Rorschach test the things that the patient's imagination sees in these cards gives significant clues to his personality makeup This looks sort of like a drawing of two women Standing on a rock and Waving their hands this man suffering from a conversion hysteria requires immediate treatment Organically sound his paralysis is as real as if it were caused by a spinal lesion, but it is purely psychological I say how long has that been going on since Friday Friday come on suddenly or gradually Oh What's up funny in my shoulders here back by me Start a cry I was controlling my legs in my arms. Is there any reason for crying spells? Anything happen at home to bother you well my mother's been ill. She has been ill that were you a lot quite a bit Well now this got anything to do with your mother's illness any reason why you should have that kind of reaction Unless my mother's illness might have brought this on I try not to hurt I say you've just been holding these things in that's right, sir No way you can control this at all. No, sir Well, now we're gonna have to help you do that of course. Let's take off this jacket We leave the shoes on so you can walk in them. I think we're gonna get you walking. Come over here. That's the boy That's fine. Now you lie steady. I study. That's the boy This is all gonna go away as I give you this medicine No bother tall the method employed here is effective in certain types of acute cases an intravenous injection of sodium amatol induces a state similar to hypnosis You might find it this way you look that way nothing for you to watch here, but you're gonna talk to me as we go along Yes, that's all now. You're not gonna feel much of anything else We're gonna feel a little bit woozy The use of this drug serves a two-fold purpose Like hypnosis it is a shortcut to the unconscious mind As a surgeon probes for a bullet the psychiatrist explores the submerged regions of the mind Attempting to locate and bring to the surface the emotional conflict which is the cause of the patient's distress The second purpose of this drug is to remove through suggestion those symptoms which impede the patient's recovery Now tell me a little bit about what you're thinking of I Thoughts are coming to your mind Well, now let's go back. Let's go back to Friday. Yeah, I'll think about that My mother argues with you