This Is the Face of PTSD
You Wear the Effects of Trauma and Stress on Your Face
A Soldier’s Face After 4 Years of War
These two pictures are shown side by side in the Andrei Pozdeev museum. The museum caption reads: “(Left) The artist Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev the day he went to the front in 1941. (Right) In 1945 when he returned”. This is the human face after four years of war. The first picture looks at you, the second one looks through you.
This rare photo is perhaps the best example of how we wear trauma on our faces. Here’s another example that’s a little more modern:
It’s Called the “Thousand Yard Stare”
From Wikipedia:
The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of combatants who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. It is sometimes used more generally to describe the look of dissociation among victims of other types of trauma.
