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So tonight we are talking about trauma memories. So let's dive right in, shall we? By the winter of

1915, one year into World War I, Shell Shock was already a significant medical problem.

It affected countless troops and army doctors, especially British and French army

doctors, struggled to treat the disorder. The symptoms included tremors, nightmares, extreme fear, fatigue, sensory

processing disorders, and of course,

immobilization states.

Today, we would recognize a lot of these signs

as a dysregulation of the nervous system associated with post-traumatic stress.

They both hyper-vigilance and dissociative shutdown that people with PTSD very often experience.

At the time, Shell Shock was often derided

by the army brass, higher-ups, as cowardice.

But two doctors, by the names of Myers and McD McDougal were very influenced by Freud and they believed that the affected

soldiers were experiencing these tremors and nightmares and sensory process

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