1000 Yard Stare

[@Simplehistory]

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[@Michael-vl8gx]

Omagad🤑

[@morphingninja]

I'm going to say this nicely, but even if the ad is a normal part of your videos, it came across as very tone deaf in this one particularly. Might have been best to have just saved it for the end or something.

[@Canada-Ball-Mapper]

It's not Ipruh, it's Ipuh

[@Escorter]

Can you do USS Sangamon cve26 converted to oiler to aircraft carrier pls

[@platypusoo7958]

Memes of 1k yard stares

[@jxgh-l6o]

these soldiers are already brave enough to face these horrors head on, but the fact that people have the audacity to call them cowards because they are naturally traumatized makes my blood boil

[@dumboi5369]

Empathy seems to be lacking in so many, I feel the same way.

[@definitelynotakgbagent6612]

As someone who suffers from PTSD.. I hate how people back then and even now don’t understand it

[@dennisyoung4631]

True. It’s very easy to impute *moral deficiency* for a *lot* of things - including disabilities one might be born with, on top of treatment-induced PTSD (which I live with every day nearly six decades on.)

[@ADcommenter]

They didn't fully understand mental illness until 1990, many decades AFTER the most major wars had occurred.

[@dosidicusgigas1376]

​ @definitelynotakgbagent6612 Back then they barely understood it, they thought the concussive force from the shells damaged the brain during ww1. The military brass didnt really listen to it, although officers got it too. Some generals got 20,000+ of their men killed in the span 24 hours. I suspect Douglas Haig had PTSD. He planned the Somme offensive, the first day had over 57,000 Allied casualties and around 19,000 of them died. A lot of the generals were broken men by the end of the war. Nowadays at least its recognized in the medical field, vets dont get the benefits they deserve in my opinion regarding ptsd & all va related things. Here in Canada there was a guy that reccomended a bunch of war vets get euthanized, one went through with it and he had a wife and kid(s?)

[@Dovah22]

I’ve seen this in my own father growing up. He served in the Gulf War and there were times he was back over there mentally speaking.

[@ww-ut1fv]

Step-father served Gulf as well, luckily he was fairly unnaffected. I thank your father for his service, war is a rough thing.

[@Akrmdz444]

​@@ww-ut1fvI dont know if i should thank your grandpa, because he probably killed innocent for corrupt politician sake

[@kennash7583]

My wife still to this day deals with me with this

[@ThatGuy-lv7hf]

@@ww-ut1fv Your dad was fighting for oil , not country

[@AlfimAlves]

@@ThatGuy-lv7hfoil is a resource and a country needs a resource. US mugged the entire world after the fall of the British empire. No coincidence that the same nation that runs the world has the most weaponry aside from Russia’s warheads (that will never be used lol)

[@MicTheOni]

The ancient Romans called it "Divine Madness" and in the Civil War they called it "Soldier's Heart"

[@Account_abandoned-q7m]

"Quid huic accidit?" "Ipsum? Divinam insaniam experitur!" Soldiers in Rome talking about a young recruit, 2 months after the start of the Second Punic War.

[@therealking6202]

In California they call it Indica.

[@runningoutofnames3CS]

@@therealking6202nah they call it “Californian”

[@therealking6202]

@@runningoutofnames3CS Only to uncultured outsiders. There's a distinct difference between your Sativas, your Indicas, your drunks, and your meth heads...lol...

[@McGovern1981]

Ya was about to say this has existed since war itself....not something that's good for your mental health.

[@unilife4603]

Props to the animators, the facial expressions looked legitimately unsettling Edit: Yeah ik it was an actual painting, though it was from WWII, not I. The realism in the animated expressions is still unsettling.

[@jeff_theepic1011]

Thats trauma for ya

[@jannepennanen8521]

Was about to comment the same!

[@pariahzero]

Good source material: One was a very close facsimile of a famous war artist's painting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_C._Lea_III_-_That_Two-Thousand_Yard_Stare_-_Original.jpg

[@stupid2867]

Props to the animators for making a new video and not just making a compilation and calling it something other than blehbluhblabla compilation

[@PerturbatorFan]

I guess it's due to how uncanny they look, they just don't fit with the style of the characters

[@andyroberts805]

My best friend came home from Iraq with it. A once very outgoing/goofy fellow he’d now just sit and stare. When you spoke to him he’d just start rambling about his time in combat. He was KIA in Afghanistan in 2005.

[@MB-fo2sk]

That's awful. How did they let him back in the service? Didn't he have to pass some kind of psychiatric evaluation before that?

[@thrandompug2254]

May he rest in peace

[@visassess8607]

​@@MB-fo2skMaybe it was just leave and not out of the Army

[@juneyellowsnek]

That's not shell shock.

[@faysmith7248]

Shush it ​@@juneyellowsnek

[@insertreference9154]

To see the horrors of advanced warfare unlike anything seen before, I would be terrified for the rest of my life just like these unsung heros

[@the_femboy_gravemind]

“what your seeing here is advanced warfare.” that one guy thats a pedo or something idk

[@nyb2.027]

@@the_femboy_gravemind😂😂

[@redditfunnyhurhur6023]

​@@the_femboy_gravemindI've just escaped from kevin spacey's basement

[@MrBillyBob0]

⁠@@the_femboy_gravemind Uhm his name is Kevin Spacey 🤓☝️

[@mrhonkhonk6116]

@@MrBillyBob0the pedo star in advanced warfare ?

[@ives3572]

"War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

[@djodyssey99]

The fact that it took until 2006 for those soldiers to be pardoned for “cowardice” is actually baffling. Rest in peace to those souls.

[@AGripOBabys]

it puts alot of it into perspective. life used to be even harder than that.

[@SalSanchez-dy6cn]

Not saying it's not true just saying u heard someone say once you come back the same way you went in

[@codybailey855]

And most of these SOBs never saw a fraction of the horrors these men survived. An absolutely unforgivable chapter in military history.

[@christophercuston]

(Not you specifically) Of course. When you're not in life and death situations, you can b&&*@ about everything.

[@therasco400]

Hes talking about how the people controlling the war conducted the war when they never saw combat. Honestly the most horrific thing is that the tactic of the allies WAS to keep sending men to there deaths just to drain Germanies resources. @@christophercuston

[@SOUTHEASTALLDAY]

​@@christophercuston💯💯 I hate how people jump on the moral high ground and act as if they were in the war in 1915🤣it's like bro wasn't even born yet and he's already jumping on the bandwagon.

[@SOUTHEASTALLDAY]

You're so hard and tough bro, War hero.🤣

[@Elitesyno]

@@SOUTHEASTALLDAYit’s true though, WW1 was the most horrific war of all of them. You are just stupid, and have never opened a history book 🤦‍♂️😂 stupid people will always say stupid things because they have nothing else to argue.

[@Jakob_Herzog]

Any people mocking a soldier for Shellshock/PTSD should have been forcefully put on the frontline. If they survived, I highly doubt they would mock that soldier again.

[@blueberry1vom1t]

Generally I am against sentiments like this. But in the case of the dishonorable cowards who doubt PTSD, yes, they should be forced to go through what the people they mocked go through. If they can come out the other end of horrible abuse, torture, wrongful imprisonment or even warefare, then they can be as snarky as they want. But they'll either lose their apatite for snark, or they'll come back in a casket.

[@kidd32888]

The constant terror is unimaginable.

[@kidd32888]

​@@content_enjoyer4458and ppl who experienced it would not mock those who suffers

[@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378]

​@@kidd32888 You know you can't trust your officers right?.

[@wtz_under]

tho i dont think you mean this literally, this is how i might feel if extreme enough

[@JamesFromTexas]

I can't imagine the amount of PTSD that's going to surface from future warfare with the advent of drone-dropped munitions. Just the thought of being in a combat zone with that tech gives me nightmares.

[@ColinTherac117]

I wouldn't be surprised if common desk fans become major triggers for Ukraine war veterans given that drone propellers make the same sound.

[@JamesFromTexas]

@@ColinTherac117 yeah, that's going to be rough.

[@runningoutofnames3CS]

@@ColinTherac117crazy how you are ignoring the Russian vets who will also suffer the same fate as their Ukrainian counterparts

[@poopgobbler5415]

​@@runningoutofnames3CSthat's the name of the war you dunce ape

[@Spottycloth]

@@runningoutofnames3CS he said Ukraine war because the war/frontline is in, well, Ukraine. both sides soldiers will still suffer the same after the conflict ends. he was talking about the vets/soldiers of the war from both sides.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Shell shock isn't only PTSD. Its also a physical trauma to the brain from constant concussive blasts from explosions.

[@The_scrongler1978]

Man so what’s inside the shell gets shocked and then the outside. You ain’t catching me in the military

[@imchris5000]

shell shock is worse than just ptsd even though people try to compare to it. its from the brain damage you get from the concussive of massive artillery shells landing near by. just the over pressure created by the explosion can kill. its a whole different level than just seeing the horrors of war. I have a friend I went to school with who went to iraq and was in an ied explosion. he was not burned or hit by any shrapnel but the pressure hitting his body blew out his bladder making him incontinent and he got mild brain damage leaving him with seizures and can no longer drive at only 28 years old

[@The_scrongler1978]

@@imchris5000that’s a lot of fancy words, I don’t understand them but they seem smart

[@boneroaster88j7]

@@The_scrongler1978 Other way around the shock is caused by the shells.

[@The_scrongler1978]

@@boneroaster88j7 I see, shells shock the shell and that’s called shell shock. I think I get it

[@jesusisalive3227]

My great uncle was blown out of his foxhole in korea. He went through a period of mental trouble afterwards. He made a full recovery thank God. He is the strongest man I know, he is now 94 years old and lives by himself in the country side. He still chops his own wood and everything else that needs to be done. This after he had his pelvis shattered 10 years ago after a tractor ran him over. There will never be another generation like my uncles.

[@Khornecussion]

I love that many British people I know talking about WW2 called Americans " barbaric "- and then I bring up the whole " Summary execution " thing that the British and French were infamous for and go " You can call Americans mean for slapping around soldiers that're freezing up, but at least we didn't put a Webley to the back of their head and permanently turn their inner thoughts into outer thoughts all over the nearest trench wall. "

[@Cringe_Lord]

Ye, we were bastards And then there's the Russian commissars

[@dominusdone5023]

There’s more Britain caused more deaths than the nazis just from imperialism in China, India, and africa

[@AsMightyAsBread]

Everyone is guilty of sin

[@RustyUNITB]

Didn’t Patton nearly get fired for those slaps?

[@serch3ster]

@@Cringe_Lord Mans hitting you with the whataboutism.

[@Darwingreen5]

PTSD has to be frustrating for the war medics. Things like bullet wounds, broken limbs and shrapnel they can patch up, but there's no way they can patch up mental wounds like that.

[@Slava_Ukraini1991]

they usually don't have to deal with it. PTSD becomes a problem after returning home at least in modern wars.

[@sdivine13]

Motrin, hydrate, change socks. Fixes 100 percent of all ailments cancer included.

[@davemiller638]

@@sdivine13 Thanks, will try

[@toshineon]

Can any mental wounds ever be healed? Statements on the internet seems to suggest that they can't.

[@bishop51807]

​@@toshineon we don't even fully understand how or why we sleep so I don't think we know how to fully give treatment for emotional traumas like PTSD.

[@condelocatelli7172]

My grandfather, who fought in the Italian army during World War II, also suffered from this, but only in the last years of his life did the family manage to see the true extent of the damage that the war caused to his psychology. Before he got sick he didn't let on, he was a great man.

[@bbwilkinson6326]

Ive never served, but I've seen this in the civil world, along with the accompanying wander. His best friend died in a plane crash at an air show that he was watching, I found him afterward just wandering the field, staring off into the distance and just emotionally oblivious. I still feel for that guy, that was the most haunting encounter of PTSD I've seen yet.

[@billhuber2964]

My dad had PTSD.i know all about that. He was a ww2 navy vet. Got torpedoed twice in the Atlantic . He had reoccurring nightmares. Later on i was going in the navy i didn't know how to swim. Dad took care of that right quick.he threw me in the water said sink or swim. I learned very quick.

[@mobucks555]

My mom was in college after 'nam and the young men would hide under desks if there was a loud noise. It was all a knee jerk reaction after going through war.

[@Slava_Ukraini1991]

heard an afghanistan vet describe waking up to flashbacks the day he got back home. he said he was awoken by mortar fire and machinegun bursts and rolled off of his bed scrambling for his gear and getting more and more panicked as he attempted to locate his plate carrier, rifle, night vision, etc before looking out the window and seeing green trees and snapping back realizing he was no longer in afghanistan. crazy what war does to these people.

[@chizorama]

@@Slava_Ukraini1991 You can leave the war, but the war never leaves you.

[@johnhildenbrand2642]

​@chizorama A big part of it is the angle from which you look at your experiences, I have been blown up 4 times, and took 2 bullets on top of that, but I consider it a small price to pay for the opportunity to have been able to bear that cost for others, it is awful, thankless and nasty watching your friends blown apart, shot, self deleted and mangled, to say nothing of what you will do to the enemy, but that cross MUST be carried, and our generation fought the longest war in the nation's history, and at no time was troop strength so low that a conscription was necessary, there's a lot to be said about that, so if you were one of those who manned the ramparts during that time, be proud, you saved a whole lot of people from being forced into going

[@vihuynhquang5204]

I played a horror game called “Trenches”, which a British soldier trapped behind the German’s trenches line during WW1, and stuck for days. He escaped, rescued, but severely damaged in mentality. One would’ve thought he could finally have a happy ending when the war is over with his family, he slaughtered his entire family - including his unborn son, before he blown his own head to pieces with his shotgun in the end, a year after the war was over. Turns out he was never given a proper PTSD treatment after all And yet a majority of people called him monster

[@Piece-Of-Time]

Never heard of this game, thank you, it's gonna be interesting. Horror game + WWI setting must be awesome

[@ferretyluv]

He’s still a monster. But war turned him into one.

[@maybeafriend9028]

@@ferretyluvyea apparently. Every villain is.

[@andrewcollins2060]

​@@ferretyluv I am not very certain you understand what a flashback actually is. In that moment he was most likely back in those trenches and every living thing around him wanted him dead. When he came around again and realized what he had done he killed himself for it. Alternativly it could have been other reasons nobody will ever know for sure. But all in all try to not make such comments without truely understanding the perspectives that could have taken place.....🤐

[@Bullboy_Adventures]

There's another one quite similar, but it had dinosaurs in it. No joke

[@maira_dog4666]

As an undergraduate student of psychology I find this video so sweet, just, humane and necessary! Thank you Simple History! ❤

[@JohnInen]

❤💯

[@oliversherman2414]

I'm glad our modern militaries don't laugh at or even shoot those unfortunate soldiers who experience PTSD. We've come a long way since WW1

[@filipinordabest]

I wish you're right.

[@Dead_Again1313]

Yeah now we just get called murderers and war criminals.

[@RobinLundqvist]

You should ask who is giving you the information you have, then question “could this source be lying to me”? When it comes to the military, they usually investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

[@bishop51807]

We still have a ways to go but the improvements are noticeable

[@oliversherman2414]

@@bishop51807 indeed

[@tonyz7216]

My family have photographs of one of my great-grand-uncles which were taken during the Great War. This stare, this terrible empty stare that you can't forget. Mobilized as a private soldier in August 1914, participated to most great battles of WWI, received the Croix de Guerre, he finally got killed in action as a lieutenant in August 1918 after fighting for four years in the trenches. They never found his body he did not have a grave. He is my hero, when I feel low I think about what he went through and this gives me strength. May he rest in peace.

[@corymorimacori1059]

“You think I haven’t heard of those things before? You’re just a bully who’s too scared to go to war.” Freddie Mercury

[@robertsears8323]

That POS was a gay so anything it said is a lie.

[@barnabykardashianiii3637]

Bro really quoted Epic Rap Battles lmfao ☠️

[@robincordero3]

@@barnabykardashianiii3637 i dont even know what that is but lol

[@wakcedout]

This stare still exists and I have seen it. Knew a guy who left for a long deployment linking up with army, he left cheery and happy go lucky. When he came back you can tell he wasn’t all there at times.

[@ives3572]

Nothing but respect for all those brave souls who fought valiantly and gave up their lives for something greater than themselves.

[@jamesmcgrath1952]

That stare is also associated with hyper vigilantism. Some one used to being hyper aware of their surroundings and what is happening around them. It's not uncommon with soldiers who are in highly dangerous and fluid combat enviorments. It can take years, if ever to unlearn the habit.

[@whitekony1006]

Yeah,every guy I've ever known that's done hard time or has really lived the streets ends up with that look too.

[@juneyellowsnek]

​@@SmokestalDude420pardon us, we were unaware we had a licensed psychiatrist in the thread.

[@jranddasquad7455]

Lil durk got it ​@@whitekony1006

[@searchforthetruth1]

@@whitekony1006 it’s from living in constant fight or flight and nothing in between for YEARS at a time.

[@Sir_Squirrel_TheIV]

I worked part time in a psychologist office as a janitor and I met some people with PTSD it was just heartbreaking. I met a kid from Israel, he was 16, his entire family of 7 got killed , I also met Palestinian girl who’s mom got blown up in front of her and I even met a Ex-Soviet soldier who fought in Afghanistan. Wherever they are know I hope they are alive and well.

[@wtz_under]

sometimes humanity comes quite far, but there will be more modern problems coming along the way. so much so that it could overwhelm our minds. i always think about this, what if we werent so advanced

[@Moonshine449]

@@wtz_underWe have gone too far

[@neofulcrum5013]

War can either make you tough or mess you up beyond repair. Sometimes both.

[@NinajuiPR]

I hate how words like "1000 yard stare" or "war crimes" have been so watered down I only think of the joke versions when I hear them

[@Dustin_Bins]

Yeah, despite our medical/psychological advancements; some people STILL think the way the British officers thought in WW1. To this day the amount of people who have hatred for those with PTSD or those who were captured is still there.

[@capitcha]

@Tigran-Abazyanlol, Ukraine is losing. Sweet dreams though…

[@DanSepulveda]

What happens to chronically online mfrs

[@CalebAnimations3000]

1:00 That guy shaking took “shiver me timbers” to the next level 💀

[@JimRoberts86]

They were your fathers, your brothers, your sons, and you turned your backs on them. Thank you for speaking for those that cannot team.

[@whowhatwherehowwhy]

Those who are lucky enough to never see the sword, are never cursed with knowing it’s sharpness.

[@neoasura]

It's not just war, I was abused as a child quite severely. And I used to call it "staring off into the distance and zoning out" as I grew up, but that was before I read up on trauma and specifically childhood trauma. I still get it from time to time. Some people call it PTSD, Idk what it is really.

[@HardcoreOreider]

I wish you the best, hope you are doing better nowadays

[@lemax6865]

Post-traumatic stress disorder can result from anything sufficiently traumatic. War is a commonly documented cause because of a) how severely traumatic it is, such that even very resilient folk can be traumatized by it and b) how many people from the same demographic experience it at the same time when it happens. That said, it's not at all the only cause. It's impossible to obtain a diagnosis from a KZbin comment, but it's entirely possible that you've suffered PTSD following whatever trauma you experienced. The only way to be certain would be to have yourself evaluated by qualified professionals, and it's up to you to decide whether that'd be worthwhile. Depending how much you're still suffering and how well you've adapted, you may benefit from treatment, or not so much.

[@wtz_under]

@@lemax6865you are correct.

[@Ebola419]

Lets not compare whatever you went through with people that experienced the horrors of war

[@otani8806]

That's his point of reference that anchors his opinion.

[@edi9892]

It reminds me of a Joker quote in the Dark Knight trilogy. Basically, it hits harder when you can't anticipate it. The relation to this is that in earlier wars, you had a rough idea where the enemy was, you spotted him, approached him, and engaged him and then you left back home to relative safety... In modern wars, you can get killed by a stray bullet, or a shell, long before you even know that the enemy is near... Plus, there's no safe time or place. You can get shelled 24/7.

[@Swagmaster07]

5:32 THE MAN, THE LEGEND!

[@KellyCy]

Lol I know him😂

[@garrett621]

My father is a Vietnam veteran. I don't know if he ever had shell shock but he certainly had what I called the "death stare." It was terrifying but I really don't think he was aware of it. Respect to him.

[@Thatonepatriot77]

Respect

[@garrett621]

@Tigran-Abazyan yes, you're probably right. Take care.

[@juneyellowsnek]

​@Tigran-Abazyandoubtful that it was shell shock in Vietnam. Likely PTSD.

[@ColKorn1965]

My dad's uncle parachuted into Normandy and was captured. He wouldn't talk about it unless he was drunk. He sometimes had a stare

[@SessmaruKusanagiGaming]

I can't even imagine.. Freaking Normandy...

[@ItsLifeJim_VB]

One of the big things I've seen recently is that younger generations (through either attempts to be edgy or simple ignorance) are returning to humiliating those with PTSD, both veterans and regular victims of trauma. Its disgusting to think that a section of the worlds future population is so jaded and sickening that they will do these kinds of things. I hope only that people learn, because I refuse to live in a world where these people are running it.

[@dirrt5011]

and they turn around and make all those stupid phonk edits of war footage. they’re idolizing a very superficial image of war. i once saw an old clip of a ww1 french soldier with ptsd having a mental breakdown after seeing his uniform, but whoever uploaded it but a billion filters and “badass” music. they were basically just using an incredibly traumatized man for internet clout.

[@Perc_angle30]

Coming from a person from the “younger generation” that’s just not facts a lot of us watch our friends die sometimes right infront of us go to any inner city and ask around about their experiences

[@dominicsondrini3099]

I learned that you are a real guy with a sweet voice, not a computer generator voice tailored to what an algorithm thinks a human will connect with. This information has made my day. I am so glad you are real. Great content!

[@ChrisKane-]

I am indeed very real! Thank you for the compliment. 😁

[@WeAintJokinHere]

@@ChrisKane- he wasn't talking to you 💀

[@ChrisKane-]

@@WeAintJokinHere To whom was he talking?

[@WeAintJokinHere]

@@ChrisKane- he was talking to simple history

[@ChrisKane-]

@@WeAintJokinHere I'm the narrator from this episode. 😀

[@BobsoneK81]

It's very sad that soldiers for many years experience that and see them ruined mentally by war.

[@Voucher765]

Especially during WWII, May history not repeat itself

[@jj12studios]

5:24 gotta love the tf2 sniper sound

[@leealdrich2707]

for further reading on those interested, The book On Killing by Lt. Col Grossman dives into other mental casualties in later wars and one of the many parts that interested me was that soldiers on crewed weapons and vehicles like bombers, tanks and even warships, ironically while on paper causing more destruction than the typical infantry man. suffered less PTSD cases and or developing said trauma than infantry in the field. due to them being too far or not even seeing the destruction caused on their fellow man on a personal level. part of their minds rationalizing that "they didn't kill anyone", just a building, vehicle or a non descript plot of land. where as infantry see the wrath on man unleashed before their very eyes, "Looking another human being in the eye, making an independent decision to kill him, and watching while he dies due to your action combine to form one of the most basic, important, primal and potentially traumatic occurrences of war." - Chapter 3 Why can't Johnny kill? page 69.

[@Dead_Again1313]

I've been thinking about reading that. I think you just convinced me.

[@imchris5000]

they were not experiencing the over pressure of the explosions just the over pressure will give you brain damage if not outright kill you

[@Mark-in8ju]

What if those crews were physically brought to the location they previously targeted once the battle was complete?

[@leealdrich2707]

​@@Mark-in8ju I could not visualize the horrible deaths my bombs…had caused here. I had no feeling of guilt. I had no feeling of accomplishment. -J. Douglas Harvey, World War II bomber pilot, visiting rebuilt Berlin in the 1960s quoted in Paul Fussell, Wartime. Found in the book I mentioned, sorry for the late reply.

[@drhorrorfootball]

I feel most people from d-day had a thousand yard stare. It was one of the most deadliest battles ever, so many bodies split in half and deaths.

[@combinecommando001]

Depends which beachfront they were sent to. If it was Omaha, yes, you would most likely be right. But most of the other landings, like Juno for example, went extremely well.

[@pariahzero]

It depends on how one measures it. D-Day didn't grind on for weeks, months years. For example at Verdun, over a ton of artillery was expended per square inch, and even today, you can't stray from very well marked paths because of unexploded (and very much *live*) artillery - both high explosive and chemical weapons. Artillery barrages were so intense whole units were just turned into a chunky red mist, which rained and rotted everywhere. Or the battle of Stalingrad, where 1.2 million men died over about 5 months. D-Day was a flash in the pan - horrible yes, but imagine that same kind of fight for months, knowing your only way out is in pieces. May we never see the like again.

[@houjisaifeddine5524]

d-day itself didn't have that many casualties though, not even in the top 100 deadliest battles in history. to understand things better, the allies suffered less than 5000 deaths on d-day. that's from 3 nations combined in comparaison, the first day of the battle of the somme, the british alone suffered about 20.000 deaths. actually, operation overlord in its entirety (both the landings and securing strategic locations within normandy, lasting a bit less than 3 months) isn't even in the top 20 casualty-wise. humans have caused far more destruction, unfortunately

[@matheussuzuki1046]

I think stalingrad would be more like it

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

D-Day was a skirmish compared to the charnal house of most WW1 battles and WW2 eastern front ones.

[@okupantrosyjski103]

You explain the story very well, I adore you!

[@stevenabogunde]

With how many wars that happened throughout history it surprises me that people still called you a coward back then you’d think everyone would have an understanding of what war is

[@5552-d8b]

I never experienced war or had the 1000 yard stare. But seeing there faces led me to conclude that people are so scared of dying there stuck in full adrenaline and the eyes are forced open because the mind is on full alert and not wanting to die, especially after seeing the carnage of war of there friends dying. So it makes them super paranoid and forced them to be on full alert cause they don’t want to die.

[@maevethefox5912]

Shell Shock is commonly considered the same as PTSD, but there is a distinct Shell Shock disorder caused by neurological trauma from overpressure compression from being too near artillery strikes.

[@bhiei]

Good mention

[@sniperelite360]

Well people suffered from it without being exposed to artillery

[@juneyellowsnek]

​@@sniperelite360no, they suffered similar mental symptoms. They did not suffer the same condition.

[@Zopiexx]

My Great grandfather had this for a while, he was a Soviet soldier he fought with my Great grand uncle and Grand uncle in Moscow later Ny Great grand uncle and Grand uncle went towards Leningrad and sadly passed away there, while my Great grandfather fought in Stalingrad and later on in Kursk, Ukraine and other major citys like Kiev, Warsaw, Berlin. Eternal memory to the heroes!

[@themightyironoak]

"It is good that war is so terrible, or else we should grow too fond of it." -- Robert E. Lee Blessing to all the heroic veterans who are victims of this horrible condition and violence of war, respect to all. I salute you.

[@jamesofficial6829]

I'm so mad and completely mortified on how people can be so cruel. The people that fought in WW1 on both sides were all heroes in my eyes and understandably war is a horrible experience. How about love instead of torture for these men? Love is the greatest healing power on the planet and I wish I had it because I really need it right now. Talking about being cuddled by a wonderful woman.

[@skeleleleton]

Bro the way your voice seamlessly switches from normal to that bassy undertone is actually insane. Like in the ad at 2:38 "That's what brilliant offers" but its so casually even until the "O" sound in "offers" but then you hit the "F" sound and suddenly where in super dramatic bass land. I could listen to you talk about anything cuz that's just a unique and captivating feature of your voice.

[@oldlincolnpipewelder]

The thousand yard stare: …. something you don’t really want…

[@brucekaraus7330]

Maybe whoever drew the figure for "severe psychosis", (1:18) should spend some time with veterans suffering from that disorder and see if their portrayal seems as cute afterwards.

[@firesturmgaming]

The 1000 Yard Stare also happens when a person experiences a strong enough trauma from anywhere, anything and anyone.

[@DELTAF11B]

I did that once

[@bachiak1]

kaya when she saw her mom getting ate by connie dad

[@Kavinplaysroblox]

The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war combatants and the post-traumatic stress they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a stressful situation, or in people with certain mental health conditions. An exhausted U.S. Marine exhibits the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting at the Battle of Eniwetok, February 1944. The thousand-yard stare is sometimes described as an effect of shell shock or combat stress reaction, along with other mental health conditions. However, it is not a formal medical term.

[@Eastlmao69]

0:07 bro the only one who doesn't have dots for eyes

[@kingofthepod5169]

I feel like this needs a part 2. Usually you have a today section and talk about the evolution of the video topic. Support is out there people. Considering the topic and how horrifyingly common veteran mental health issues get neglected I feel this part 2 needs some support numbers and resources. We literally got the 988 this year in the USA.

[@junedhussain6252]

Thank you so much for your hard work. Simple History. i couldn't imagine what these soldiers went through during the horrors of war. May they rest in peace.

[@classifiedveteran9879]

First 20 seconds is about the 1000-yard stare. _(Something that I got in Afghanistan.)_ The next 10 minutes are not about the 1000-yard stare but about PTSD and early treatments for it. _(Something that I didn't get in Afghanistan.)_ _(Edit due to one typo.)_

[@FragGoesBoom]

Thank you for you're service and welcome home. I hope you're doing better and is getting help to recover from the trauma ❤🙂

[@ablackghostmyguy3741]

Makes me sick how the public calls them cowards, meanwhile they hadn't spent a day in the trenches or in the mud and pushed them to join up and fight in the first place

[@thenoteworthy1298]

There are accounts of knights in the Middle Ages having PTSD/ Shell Shock, mentioning them breaking down when hearing struck metal (smithing).

[@juneyellowsnek]

Knights in the middle ages never experienced shell shock.

[@thenoteworthy1298]

@@juneyellowsnek Well of course they didn’t call it that back then, but there are accounts of them experiencing problems to modern people with PTSD

[@juneyellowsnek]

@@thenoteworthy1298 correct. Shell shock is not the same as PTSD. shell shock is a physical injury resulting from pressure waves causing brain damage. PTSD is strictly mental health.

[@thenoteworthy1298]

@@juneyellowsnek Ohhh I see. I stand corrected.

[@MrBillsomm2000]

There are no cowards on the edge of human experience.

[@shanejones4058]

Seeing friends and people you have just spoken to get killed in brutal ways I.E (IEDS, Grenades/RPG) people mangled in horrible ways, still screaming or making noises …. headshots are also gruesome to see happen. It’s all horrible. Seeing the death caused at your own hands is also very traumatic later in life especially. War is not natural….

[@wolfrainexxx]

I agree. Allies should never have gone to war with Japan or Germany, regardless of who started it, or why. War is evil.

[@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308]

@wolgrainexxx Millions more would have died. It was horrific, but without that war all of Europe would have been enslaved.

[@basedsmoke591]

war is unfortunately natural for humans. there is not a single moment in human history when war wasn't happening...

[@deepdungeon8465]

​@@wolfrainexxxoh yeah, asks the Japanese. 😂

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

​@@wolfrainexxxalmost everyone in the allies had either been partially invaded or had attempts at invasion against them. The only major one who could've stayed out is the UK.

[@USAirsoft]

I’ve never been so angry and sad watching a Simple History video.

[@TheSisyphusExperience]

9:41 though is truly terrifying

[@dwaynemontgomery1851]

ptsd then: caused by unthinkable devastation and unthinkable horrors ptsd now: caused by mild inconvenience its amazing how far we have come as a society...

[@liammcconnell9322]

Wow, that’s almost impressively disgusting.

[@Ididitlikethis2079]

“And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” - Friedrich Nietzche

[@waylingtons]

Shell shocks shaking symptoms were also from flinching from the constant bombardments. Your natural reflexes were tested so much to the point of stress it became basically uncontrollable for the sufferer to stop shaking.

[@maybeargy]

the thousand yard stare kinda freaks me out

[@Luis-be9mi]

Tell me about it, when I first started reading about WW1, one picture that stuck with me was a grinning soldier that made him look demonic. I can only imagine the horrors that poor soul witnessed and been through.

[@myprobate1661]

If you see that look in a child's eye, keep an eye out for them. Children who are subjected to repeat sexual or satanic ritual abuse can kind of have that look.

[@Tmilitaria]

Good video, those who suffered PTSD deserve our respect and deserved proper medical attention rather than the horrible torture.

[@Goc4ever]

Very informative video as always, well done Simple History. May those young men rest in peace🫡. What the British had done to those poor lads was downright despicable😡.

[@Chris_Thorndyke]

@dinoconcThat’s a poor excuse

[@geradkavanagh8240]

This 'doco' focuses on British Shell shock victims. It leaves out what common soldiers and civilians from all Nations were coping with.

[@Goc4ever]

Regardless it doesn't say the British had to treat its own traumatized soldiers worse than animals and they never apologized until 2006😡.

[@geradkavanagh8240]

Basically combatants suffering the same shell shock effects from any nation were treated in the same way. Was a time when people were less knowledgeable about the effects of war.@@Goc4ever

[@dominusdone5023]

Britain does this to every country lol worse than nazis

[@wattsinaname6975]

My understanding was that shell shock is more than just ptsd, but literally brain damage from concussive blasts.

[@jordonlongley6576]

That’s TBI

[@bandit6272]

We actually still use electroshock therapy, we call it "electroconvulsive therapy" or ECT. Much more humane these days, with the pt sedated during the entire procedure. The pts I spoke with, didn't remember a thing. The went to sleep, and woke up after it was over. Iirc we use it for catatonic and refractory severe depression.

[@hlriiiviiiv]

My grandad is as in Europe for ww2 he never said a word about it until he got dementia around 75. Then he told blood curdling stories, cried regularly, and basically lived his last 8 years fighting the Germans again in his head. My other grandpa was a marine in the pacific, he carried it all to the grave.

[@Predz-xh5oj]

They did it, they did the joke

[@theagency5332]

Yes they did my friend yes they did.

[@helmetmesa]

In fact they did

[@gamevidz8763]

What’s the joke? And where is it?

[@shanejones4058]

@@gamevidz8763inside joke

[@maltheartistme]

@@gamevidz8763to be honest, i guess the dude in the original picture looked kinda funny? look the picture up for yourself if you’d like.

[@hugoefekandirmaz9180]

0:15 the origin of the picture that this comes from was a blue eyed soldier that was actually smiling because he survived a gunshot to the neck and was smiling for the photo while being healed by a frontlines doctor

[@Joseph-x7w4l]

You mean private Lindsay Rogers

[@rogeryoung9934]

I've never been angrier in my entire life. It hurts my heart so much as to hear people treated them so poorly, and have cigarettes put out on their tongue and electrocuted as "treatment". They werent my nation's soldiers, but that doesn't matter... they were soldiers, and deserve respect.

[@sdivine13]

Hey, that cigarette on the tongue fucking works

[@MrCombatmedic00]

Best way I can describe it personally from experiences from OIF, it was like I would remember something and just mentally focus on it and pick it apart piece by piece. Example: “hey, that chicken leg looks kind of like how that one soldiers…leg….looked…with all the blood…and the exposed muscle…all that blood….the look on his face…so much noise….” And I’m thinking this all in my head as I’m replaying it and I become lost in it

[@alexandrefillot9600]

*Everlong by the Foo Fighters starts playing*

[@potgnom]

my great grandpa came home from the eastfront with PTSD, my Grandma said his mind never left Stalingrad and he commited suicide 10 years after the war was over, he couldnt live with the things he did and saw in the war.

[@particularbored6072]

I once was asked at the rehab I had been working at if I was a veteran. I said no, and asked why. The client said "You just have that look of someone who's been to war." I wasn't sure what to say other than "Yeah...just not overseas."

[@BBYBLU_]

Literally breaks the brain. So tragic.

[@Vasher-The-Destroyer]

That one British officer was just pour evil, just comes to show how far we've come and understanding mental helath and how war effects peoples minds.

[@shaekeeney319]

In correctional institutions they still just call it the 1000 Yard Stare. And after a few years in any violent "correctional" setting, a fair percentage of inmates are affected. Many childhood friends of mine have been diagnosed since release, and will never be the same.

[@JusttKeridd]

0:55 the way he just falls bruhh

[@Ilovetheearth-q9l]

Lol

[@ChannelMath]

It seems to me that the stare is a classic sign of dissociation, a protection mechanism where part of the mind sort of checks out while you are still conscious. Some people spend day after day dissociated, feeling nothing except a vague background anxiety, until something happens that breaks the spell, often resulting in uncontrollable crying, anger, or some other strong emotions breaking through. For a long time I chose to stay dissociated. I'm trying to start experiencing life again but the anxiety is intense

[@Bryceewing17]

I witnessed one of my best friends commit “sewer slide” in front of my face and I can really relate to a lot of this. Ptsd comes in all shapes and sizes

[@Silent.Heaven]

Alooooone at the edge of the universeeeeee, humming a tuneeee.

[@thaumielessa5051]

My late grandfather has PTSD.... on his final days, he would wake up violently and tell me or mom to get ready his gun.

[@thaumielessa5051]

@Tigran-Abazyan It was after WW2, when Malaysia dealing with uniting its states into one country and the problem with communists faction. He witnessed his friends and colleagues get executed/massacred. He had those nightmares, of fearing for his life and rising to prevent it. My grandpa was a cop. He had deal with a lot of people attacking like pirates and criminals but the one that got him into PTSD was the Limbang Insurrection/ Massacre. He was the last survivor to pass away. He passed on last year.

[@lostone1677]

Peace.. my condolences.

[@crazestyle83]

They had all the devastating weapons and none of the equivalent defenses. It was a blood bath. I can't even imagine the horrors they faced.

[@Michael-yz9wf]

I'm so glad that he hopped on this

[@squindigglyjigglybop1300]

5:32 you thought we wouldn't recognize it, didn't you

[@kingjaythegreatest9749]

I’m curious, in the military would they have training to overcome the fear of artillery bombardment? Example, having soldiers in the trenches while the artillery cannons fired at them? (Would that help alleviate the fear, or has any practices been used to help soldiers prepare for this?)

[@ColinTherac117]

The practice of having recruits crawl under barbed wire while instructors shoot live machine guns overhead has been a staple event of initial entry training in most militaries for decades. Similar concept.

[@pj_surfs4038]

It hurts me to think about how those men were treated. They saw all the horrors of what the new world had to offer and they were mocked for it.

[@destrodevil6975]

This is a problem of conscription. Not everyone is ready to see the dark, gore, inhumane side of war. If they do, they will join the military themselves. It hurts to see innocent people calling them "coward". They didn't choose to join a war, are forced to witness something disgusting, and are punished for being afraid.

[@Justt-w6f]

I learned from a BRILLANTE gentleman as you.

[@wadeklein8962]

She’ll shock begins from a sense of hopelessness, and terror. With a lack of sleep, fear constantly on your mind, and loud scary explosions and death all around, it’s not hard to see how ptsd happens, when someone sees something, or feels that something is just outright, not right. And nothing they are in control of will change it, their mental health starts to degrade, until at last their humanity is exposed, and they can no longer play the ruse of life, no longer ignore the horror of life, which most people learn to shut out of their head, ignore, or not linger on the thought. The more I think about people with ptsd, schizophrenia, psychosis, the more I think they are the most sane of us. Genuinely reacting to something terrible, reacting the way they should, utter horror. Horror to the point their brain begins shutting out everything but fear. Eventually, even that. Shutting out everything.

[@antti1100]

Those soldier are real heros.. they really give everything and more..