The end of the Falklands War saw a gradual change in how we treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
The end of the Falklands War - 40 years ago - saw a gradual change in attitudes towards how we treat post-traumatic stress disorder . Yet veterans of the Falklands are still dealing with the scars of the conflict today.
And when he returned home after the war, he didn't fit in. "I was drinking and getting into trouble on a regular basis. I wasn't a nice person back them. Eventually I wasn't allowed to see my kids. I lost everything. It was hard".It was 12 years later that he sought help. He went to the veterans' support charity Combat Stress. "I thought I was the only one to be like this. And when I went into that group meeting at Combat Stress, half my old section was in there.
After the Falklands attitudes towards PTSD would eventually change. Falklands veterans themselves would be the last generation for whom the condition went unrecognised and, to begin with at least, untreated.The vast majority of combat veterans do not develop PTSD and many of those that do recover in time. It's not known why some people develop the condition long-term.
"It was only a series of civilian disasters in the 1980s - after the Falklands War - that brought PTSD awareness to Britain," says Prof Wessely. "The Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Hillsborough stadium, the Bradford fire. Usually in psychiatry, the civilian world learns from the military - with PTSD it was the other way round."
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