Ex-child soldiers experience severe physical pain triggered by traumatic war flashbacks

Evidence

That night, as I sat on the verandah listening to some of the boys discuss the volleyball game I had missed, I tried to think about my childhood days, but it was impossible, as I began getting flashbacks of the first time I slit a man’s throat. The scene kept surfacing in my memory like lightning on a dark rainy night, and each time it happened, I heard a sharp cry in my head that made my spine hurt. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 613

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 613
• XREF: connects to: Continuous drug use and war films created a totalizing reality for child soldiers — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 475; Removing child soldiers from combat does not immediately eliminate their violent behavior — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 516; Ordinary nature walks trigger vivid flashbacks of wartime executions for former soldiers — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 764 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Ordinary nature walks trigger vivid flashbacks of wartime executions for former soldiers #expands (0.85) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 764