Regeneration shows the other side of mental illness and how the soldiers were affected. During the first World War soldiers were given certain stereotypes that they were expected to uphold. To break these stereotypes, was to commit yourself to the publics scrutiny. This had dire affects on the soldiers that were returning from war with mental illnesses and being stigmatized by the public for abandoning their post and pursuing their desires when in most cases the men needed time to recover from the horrors experienced in war. Regeneration follows the story of Siegfried Sassoon, a man writing a declaration about the war. Sassoon was soon submitted into a medical ward due to the government not liking where his declaration was headed. The readers