LETTERS TO THE ED: Royal Commission into Defence suicides
Support for Royal Commission “Shellshock” they called it when men seemingly lost all reason in the trenches of Europe in WWI. “Battle fatigue” was another term used when fighting men returned home, quiet, distracted, bad-tempered and turning to alcohol before ending the torment with a permanent solution to the war still going on in their heads. Now we say “nervous breakdown” and “PTSD”, but while we use these terms to recognise the well-known problem of terrible mental health outcomes for defence personnel, we don’t seem to be any closer to a remedy. I wholeheartedly welcome...