[lit-ideas] Re: Mop Rumpchuck
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:54:22 +0900
And now, those different wars different symptoms differences?
John
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:21 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:47 PM, John McCreery wrote:
>
> > Thanks so much. I am especially interested, however, in the
> > differences between officer and enlisted symptoms you mentioned.
> > Can you generalize a bit?
> >
> > John
> There is some truth to the generalizations that Pat Barker made in
> "Regeneration"; because she was reducing reality to fiction, and
> because she did not spend years doing research, she had to simplify.
> Enlisted men tended to suffer from grosser symptoms: mutism, spastic
> movements, uncontrolled speech and wild, erratic behavior that would
> get noticed and thus be processed by a medical system that was busy
> and under strain. The risk of exhibiting too gross a set of symptoms
> was that medical officers might think you were faking and pass you
> across to the army's disciplinary system. Officers suffered from
> tics and stammers and smaller symptoms that suggested "sound" kinds
> of people who were trying to hold things together; the symptoms did
> not need to be large because officers were always under scrutiny.
> Both groups were insomniacs who would keep themselves awake to avoid
> awful dreams.
>
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
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