We might believe we ve a fundamental understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD: Soldiers in conflict see things theywant to forget, but years after fight memories return to haunt them. That is the received wisdom. But maybe we have it all wrong. Possibly it is not the reminders of the fighting that cause post-traumatic anxiety so much as the emptiness ex-combatants confront when they leave behind the community of soldiers. That is how journalist Sebastian Junger comprehends the worries of many former combatants, a theme he investigated in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Weirdly, it s coming home that s actually the trauma, Junger says. They return from an extremely close, personal expertise within their platoon, sleeping in groups, doing everything in groups. We essentially evolved as a species to live out our lives like that. According to Junger, the speeds of long term, long-term PTSD appear to be established not so much by what occurred in the war, but by whether so
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