GDG- Now: CW PTSD was: Custer: G'burg, LBH & Philbrick

[John Lawrence]

Bruce,
First we would have to define drinking yourself to death.
Second, you would have yo define what it was in the 19th century.
Third, we would need a common denominator to equalize the two disparate figures

I am not sure it would mean anything.

I mean the different alcohol consumption rates alone would be insurmountable, wouldn't they?
Regards,
Jack


Batrinque at aol.com wrote:

>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
>In a message dated 1/21/2012 1:45:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
>jlawrence at kc.rr.com writes:
>
>But  people do that (drink themselves to death) all the time.
>I think a better  explanation might be is that war changes all whom it 
>touches, and  different individuials handle it differently.
>We just put a name on it  now.
> 
> 
>One of the points of that paper I mentioned about health  costs associated 
>with CW veterans that stress from their experience fed  into adopting 
>unhealthy behaviors such as drinking too much.  It would be  difficult to prove 
>that any particular individual did or did not drink himself  to death as a 
>direct result of the war, but looking at a larger population  something 
>statistically significant would emerge.
>
>Bruce  Trinque
>Amston, CT
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