War veterans often return physically intact but psychologically shattered

Evidence

John stuttered when he spoke. His hands shook nervously, tapping the metal table where we sat. The tapping made my coffee cup shake, matching my nerves. Reluctantly, he spilled memories of a war he was keen on forgetting. I was hesitant to explicitly inquire whether the war had altered him psychologically, but I had my suspicions. I had read about men and women who faced lifelong depression after making it back home, in one piece physically but disintegrating from within. And worse, veterans who took their own lives because they could take no more. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 188