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Challenges Of Homeless Soldiers During World War I

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World War I was a very sad event for the soldiers and their families. Because of this war, soldiers received mental illnesses, immune diseases, and physical injuries in the trenches and in battle. This is similar to how people lived in the 1930's in the Great Depression, and how they developed mental illness and immune system disease. So the challenges of a soldier in the GMP are similar to the challenges faced by homeless people in the Great Depression.

To begin with, soldiers suffered from mental and immune diseases between 1914-1918 because of the war. For example, in the trenches, soldiers received illnesses such as PTSD and the flu. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) was a mental illness in the GMP. During the GMP they called it "battle hypnosis" and it was when the soldiers did not have physical wounds, but psychological ones. It was caused by traumatic moments and events such as body parts that had to be amputated or were destroyed by explosions. They developed the flu because the conditions in the trenches were not sanitary. The conditions during the war were not sanitary or safe, so they caused mental illness and immune diseases. …show more content…

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