“These records were systematically destroyed after the Second World War if someone had a major psychiatric admission, because of the stigma attached to mental illness.” I suddenly felt a rush of animosity towards the military establishment, towards a country that sent its poor young men to war and let their brains become addled only to destroy any record of such damage, thereby heaping shame back onto the very young men who had given and lost so much in the first place. No wonder there is still such stigma today.
