Curing Ukraine War Brain
Personal Reflection from the war
533 days of living in a war zone. War Brain dominates. What is War Brain? It’s a mixture of intuition, focus, stress, survival, spirit, psyche and emotion. There are different levels of it for each of us. Soldiers in some sense are lucky because they know exactly what their mission is and have to focus on fighting, surviving, and the human basics. They suffer when they have to sit back and actually think. Medics, firefighters, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers all have a very focused mission, and their thoughts are primarily how to treat the wounded, transport them and stay alive. Volunteers near the front also have a very focused mission or they wouldn’t be there. Civil authorities near the front also must make sure essential services are functioning to the best of their ability which takes a lot of time and focus. If you have a mission and a focus, there’s more ability to dive into the depths of that and not to think about what is actually happening to people, children, villages, cities and military units. Civilians on the front. I don’t know how they do it without going insane. Maybe survival is rule number one and they stay completely focused on that. I can’t tell you how they get through every day because I am not on the front.
Once you get a little distance from the front, priorities change. The cities, towns, villages that are still…
