My memories of Leicester are a bit spotty. So many actions; they all ran together. And I did get hexed good. Benjy remembers a bit more--and perhaps coincidentally, suffers a bit more from nightmares about it, although he hasn't admited to any in the past year.
I've had a few talks with Davidson about his background in the SAS. I remember one of our late night conversations went into what Muggle soldiers call 'PTSD.' For the life of me, I don't remember what the acronym stands for, but it's what the muggles called 'shell shock' after the world wars. Davidson says that Muggle healers were becoming more knowledgeable about the damage that the constant stress of war conditions can cause for the human mind: memory problems, hyper alertness, sleep difficulties, changes in mood. I was curious to know what they did to treat cases, once a case has been identified, but he couldn't help me much with that. As an officer, he was trained to help spot cases, but then they'd be referred to their healers, so that wasn't his specialty.
Still, it gave me much food for thought: we wizards really are accustomed to solving our problems with a spell or a potion, but since Muggles for so many years didn't have recourse to those, they had to learn about underlying causes and design treatments that might take awhile to implement.
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Date: 2011-01-19 05:55 pm (UTC)I've had a few talks with Davidson about his background in the SAS. I remember one of our late night conversations went into what Muggle soldiers call 'PTSD.' For the life of me, I don't remember what the acronym stands for, but it's what the muggles called 'shell shock' after the world wars. Davidson says that Muggle healers were becoming more knowledgeable about the damage that the constant stress of war conditions can cause for the human mind: memory problems, hyper alertness, sleep difficulties, changes in mood. I was curious to know what they did to treat cases, once a case has been identified, but he couldn't help me much with that. As an officer, he was trained to help spot cases, but then they'd be referred to their healers, so that wasn't his specialty.
Still, it gave me much food for thought: we wizards really are accustomed to solving our problems with a spell or a potion, but since Muggles for so many years didn't have recourse to those, they had to learn about underlying causes and design treatments that might take awhile to implement.