Word: np
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program will make VA easily the biggest dispenser of mass mental medicine in history. Army & Navy doctors are not greatly surprised; 63% of the medical discharges from the armed services in the U.S. were NP (neuropsychiatric) cases. In addition, many a soldier who stoically endured the war has cracked up since...
...year-old rifleman was a mass of twitching nerves. By Army medical standards, he was a plain NP (neuropsychiatric) case. But by G.I. standards he was a very brave soldier. He doggedly slogged his way through three months of bloody action. By the time he finally collapsed in an Army hospital, he was ready to tell his sorry story of shyness, nervousness, worry. Why had he been such a good soldier? "I forced myself to carry on. All my life I obeyed. I couldn't bring myself to disobey...
Major Needles made a survey of 200 NP cases. They were all seasoned field soldiers with records of serious emotional instability. All had been in a tough, 60-day stretch of fighting before they finally broke down with battle jitters. Hospitalization let some odd cats out of the. psychic bags: ¶ A private, a rifle company runner, was a Doubting Thomas. He doubted himself, his friends, his own judgment and abilities. Eventually he stopped caring what happened to him, and acted with exceptional bravery because he began to look on death as a pretty comfortable state...
Interviewed in Berlin, Author Wodehouse announced that he would shortly take to the air, by arrangement with the German Foreign Office, to relate to U.S. listeners his personal experiences. Said he: "There will be np politics. ... I never have been able to work up a belligerent feeling. Just as I am about to feel belligerent about some country, I meet some nice fellow from it and lose all my belligerency." To this small clue as to his state of mind, Wodehouse added another: "Naturally I hope the war is over soon, but if I am able to continue my work...