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combat related psychiatric disorders  

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  • As soldiers experience the strain of combat, psychiatric disorders sometimes develop. In earlier wars, notably the Civil War, military medical personnel, as well as the larger military establishment and the general public, failed to recognize the severity of psychiatric trauma related to battle. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Psychiatric Disorders, Combat Related]

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