That troubling fact can be found in written accounts from war after war, country after country, century after century. As awkward as it is to say, part of the trauma of war seems to be giving it up. During the Yom Kippur War of 1973, many Israeli soldiers were fighting on the Golan Heights with their homes at their backs. Anthropologist Brandon Kohrt found a similar phenomenon in the villages of southern Nepal, where a civil war has been rumbling for years. Despite decades of intermittent war, the Israel Defense Forces have by some measures a PTSD rate as low as 1 per cent.

Source: thestar May 21, 2016 12:30 UTC