Maybe it’s the heat…

Nah.

Maybe, it’s the thought of all the tzimmes I’ll have to make in 2 weeks time…

Nah.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s all the overwhelming stress we’ve all been through for years and years and years?

Do y’a think?

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This video is a good, if somewhat basic, idea about the seven different types of ‘tired’ you get, from dealing with non-stop trauma:

And only the first one deals with physical fatigue.

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There’s also emotional tiredness, intellectual overwhelm, creative blockages, and the last one, spiritual fatigue, where it starts to feel everything is pointless and meaningless.

Is that ringing any bells?

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After the post about shell-shock, I went to look it up a little more.

Today, it’s called ‘PTSD’, but that doesn’t mean the world has moved on much, or at least, the military world has moved on much, in how to treat it.

Here’s part of the British government report in to how to deal with ‘shell shock’ in the army, from 1922:

No soldier should be allowed to think that loss of nervous or mental control provides an honourable avenue of escape from the battlefield, and every endeavour should be made to prevent slight cases leaving the battalion or divisional area, where treatment should be confined to provision of rest and comfort for those who need it and to heartening them for return to the front line.

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Bottom line: ignore the problem of soldier PTSD as much as possible, so that you can keep your fighting units together and functioning.

Another big reason to keep pretending all the soldiers were totally A-OK is because the government didn’t want to have to pay out money to people literally disabled by their PTSD symptoms.

I have to wonder, whether our beloved country of 2026 is really operating to a different guideline… or not.

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Here’s how a British war correspondent described patients with undiagnosed PTSD, between the 2 world wars:

Something was wrong. They put on civilian clothes again and looked to their mothers and wives very much like the young men who had gone to business in the peaceful days before August 1914. But they had not come back the same men. Something had altered in them. They were subject to sudden moods, and queer tempers, fits of profound depression alternating with a restless desire for pleasure. Many were easily moved to passion where they lost control of themselves, many were bitter in their speech, violent in opinion, frightening.

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This literally describes so many of the 20 and 30-somethings coming out of the army here after the last three years, it’s scary.

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Have a look at this, if you can see it beyond the paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/navy-seals-brain-damage-suicide.html

‘Blast damage’, or repeated exposure to ‘blasts’ was shown to cause, real, physical brain damage in the brains of people who had experienced it.

And, there was a high correlation between that sort of ‘blast damage’ pattern to the brain, and people committing suicide.

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Here in Israel, you don’t need to have been actively mobilised to have PTSD from ‘blast damage’.

All that was required, was just to have been living here since October 7, 2023, and pretty much any place you happened to hang out in, you could quite easily acquire some of that brain-warping ‘blast damage’.

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This is not a question of ’emuna’ or ‘no emuna’ – although for sure, trying to have emuna reallly would lessen and weaken any PTSD symptoms.

On principal, I never went to a bomb shelter.

Ever.

I sat and read a TK, 9 TKSs, whatever it took – but I also felt shaken by the noises and ‘blasts’ I inevitably heard.

We all did.

It’s a physical reaction to danger.

And I am 100% sure that I have been working through a lot of PTSD (plus some more C-PTSD…) the last few months, as a result.

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Probably, we all have.

Take a look at this, from 2025:

A prediction model of PTSD in the Israeli population in the aftermath of october 7th, 2023

Long story short, academic models were predicting 9-24% of the total population to have developed PTSD, after ‘October 7th’.

That’s even before the last two rounds of ‘war with Iran’, which from what I could see, was the straw the broke the camel’s back for a whole bunch of people who up until then, had actually been managing OK.

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Who is talking about this, in our beloved government?

No-one.

You just get more cruddy people running cruddy ads about Bibi being ‘weak with Iran’, or trying to incite the non-chareidi population to hate the chareidim because they keep questioning the need for compulsory military service.

For everyone in Israel!!!!

(Except, the millions of muslim arabs who live here, so go figure that out for yourself.)

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No-one is talking about the stuff that really matters.

Like:

We ALL need the never-ending war to end.

Not with more violence, but simply by cutting the funding mechanism to the war machine – on all sides of that equation.

That’s really what this boils down to.

And we all need to figure out how we’re being turned against each other, with endless lies and propaganda, while our poor, PTSD-addled brains can’t even think straight.

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We need real peace.

Real ‘safety’.

Some real honesty, about how many people are literally cracked or cracking, from all the stress they’ve been through the last few years.

And of course, we need Moshiach most of all.

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