Marines turn to Greek plays to cope with stress

Even 2,500 years ago, Sophocles was using words like 'shell-shocked'

"I wanted to keep the pain to myself, son, but now it cuts straight through me. Do you understand? It cuts straight through me," the lead character in the play "Philoctetes" tells a comrade.  Read the Story

This is an amazing story of how the Marine Corps is putting on conferences to discuss PTSD and how they are reading ancient Greek plays about war to which standing ovations are given.  This is wonderful because it helps us modern 'men' to see that we are no weaker, no different, than the warriors that have come before us... human.  We can see that the strains of war are as old as war itself and this knowledge gives us license to accept our own epxeriences and struggles.