THE WARRIOR'S BRAIN

摘要

The worst was the day brookeBrown came home to find her husband with a shotgun in his mouth. But there had been many bad days since Lance Cpl. David Brown had returned from Iraq. Days when he would shake uncontrollably in crowded places, when a family visit to a restaurant would send him on a frantic search for the nearest exit. He couldn't concentrate; he couldn't do his job. After a second deployment, the Marine Corps placed him on leave, then discharged him. Brooke quit her job to care for him and their three children. The bills piled up.It sounds like another troubling case of posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, the up-to-the-moment diagnosis for the anxiety and depression that has afflicted returning veterans at least since the Napoleonic wars. (In the times of French conquest, it was called nostalgia.) But Brown's case is more complicated.