PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS PRODUCED BY WAR

I have always wondered what kind of effects can war cause to a soldiers mind, and on my search for knowledge on the internet I found this numbers:

• Of the 150,000 U.S soldiers, 8% TO 10% have presented behavioral and psychological disorders. that's about 15,000 soldiers presenting disorders. YIKES
• Approximately 1/6 of Veterans from the Iraq war are exhibiting mental disorder.
• 17.2% of Army soldiers have presented mental disorders.
• 15.6% of the Marines have presented mental disorders.
• The percentage of soldiers presenting mental disorders is increasing each and every and every and every day.

Let's also think a little bit about the people who lives in Iraq. Some habitants have presented Cognitive Mental Disorders, which results in aggressive behavior and violence.

These are some of the psychological effects of war:

•1)  Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – a prolonged and severe stress reaction to a catastrophic event or to severe, chronic stress.

•2)  Displacement – with regard to memory, the event that occurs when short-memory is filled to capacity and each new, incoming item pushes out an existing item, which is then forgotten.

•3)  Stress – the physiological and psychological response to a condition that threatens or challenges a person and requires some form of adaptation or adjustment.