Let There Be Light Page #3
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patrol,
and they shot a panzerfux though
the wall.
Well...
And what?
I was laying on the
couch,
and right before it happened I
felt a little jittery,
so I lay down on the floor.
When I got up again, the couch
was all torn.
In other words, you were
almost killed.
Is that it?
Right.
It must have gone right over my
head.
Do you feel conscious...
that is, are you aware of the
fact
that you are not the same boy
that you were
when you went over?
Do you feel changed?
Yes, sir.
In what way?
I'm more jumpy.
How about with people?
I used to...
I used to always like
to have fun.
I used to always be going
places.
I don't like to do nothing no
more.
How long were you overseas?
Were you in any combat at all?
Just the second month, sir.
keep my mind occupied--
reading, going to the gymnasium,
getting...
going out with the fellows and
trying to become an extrovert,
trying to get out of myself.
But it seemed to Me that I got
worse and worse.
And after a while I developed...
after the fear of insanity,
I started developing fears,
different sorts.
Did you ever have similar
pains before you got...
Never in my life.
Have you ever been nervous
before in your life?
No, sir.
Never. I was a solid man.
particularly?
I just
shake a little, but not bad.
Well, I guess I just
got tired of living.
You know, put it that way.
I have trouble
sleeping, yes.
Dreaming of combat, you know?
I just took off,
because I see
too many of my buddies gone, and
I figured the next one was me.
A man can just stand so much up
there, see?
Admission note.
Poole, P-O-O-L-E comma Walter L,
T5.
Transfer diagnosis.
Anxiety reaction, severe.
Active symptoms in remission.
On this, their first
night back in the States,
each man who is able may make a
long distance call without cost.
silence,
familiar voices are heard once
again.
Then each man makes for himself
a small home
which will be his for the eight
or ten weeks to come.
Now in the darkness of the ward
emerge the shapes born of
darkness,
remembered.
Dreams of battle,
the torment of uncertainty and
fear and loneliness.
The day begins with an early
morning ward inspection.
checks the condition of every
man.
Modern psychiatry makes no sharp
division
between the mind and the body.
Physical ills often have psychic
causes,
just as emotional ills may have
a physical basis.
Possibilities of organic
disturbance in the brain
are investigated by means of the
electroencephalograph.
The Rorschach Test.
The things that the patient's
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