{"id":6030,"date":"2021-08-27T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2021-08-27T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T23:03:10","slug":"ptsd-of-wwii-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=6030","title":{"rendered":"PTSD of WWII Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The current worldwide Covid-19 pandemic is taking a huge toll on nurses worldwide. Author Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi recently posted a historical perspective on post-trumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the Discover website titled The Ignored History of Nurse PTSD<\/a><\/em>. She uses the case of U.S. Navy nurse, Dorothy Still, as a focus for this short essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


From the article “Prior to the pandemic, studies estimated that as many as half of critical-care nurses experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Since the pandemic began, researchers have found the crisis has amplified symptoms of mental health problems. A 2020 study in General Hospital Psychiatry found that 64 percent of nurses in a New York City medical center reported experiencing acute stress. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Lt. Dorothy Still in uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Lucchessi is also the author of the book,\u00a0This is Really War : The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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