Ptsd In The Military

As humans it is just normal that we experience things that we cannot control such as death. Often, we forget that our brains are something we are still trying to understand and that we have to take care of them as if they were the last diamond on the planet. The human mind is so intricately wired that with the flip of a switch our mental health can distort it eventually leading into various amounts of diseases and disorders.
Mental health is described as the ability to cope with transitions, losses, and traumas which are normal parts of everyone’s lives and contribute to their day-to-day emotional growth (“Mental health”, World of Health). When someone goes through anything that they cannot deal with their brain sends them into a state of
PTSD was not introduced as a psychiatric disorder until 1980 with the earliest cases of these were of veterans coming back blind after suffering emotional state of shock from experiencing the death of a fellow soldier right in front of their eyes (Frey, "Military mental health"). Dating as far back as the civil war when they first started to notice PTSD, the doctors would come up with new theories and ideas of how people got PTSD. They would mostly focus on two ideas one called Soldier's Heart or Da Costa's Syndrome and the other Nostalgia.
On physiological side they believed that the soldiers reacted to the strain of the Civil War with cardiac disorder (Levinson,” General semantics and PTSD in the military”). They also had a psychological belief that was nostalgia, which means that people who were at war battling in a foreign territory would become home sick (Levinson,” General semantics and PTSD in the military”). Being home sick as a soldier can lead to depression even if they were already going through PTSD and or suicide
Why? Because pleading insanity has many standards that a person has to go through to be found actually clinically insane (Portman, Attorney). When the person is pleading that at the time of their crime, they were mentally unstable due to some type of mental illness.
There are two test that courts will most likely have the person go under one called The M’Naghten Test and the other called The Irresistible Impulse test. The M’Naghten Test is the modified version of the Brawner test, which consist of the person being incapable to appreciate the criminality of their actions or to conform their behavior to legal requirements (Portman, Attorney). The difference of the Irresistible Impulse test is that the person knows that they have done wrong, but do not see the wrong in their doing if to them it seems