Shell Shock

The character of Septimus in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway suffers from Shell Shock (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). The details of his illness are vivid and true to today's time because of the Iraq war. The doctors in the novel either don't believe Septimus is ill or want to take advantage of his condition to try to experiment on him. I believe that nowadays there is more knowledge about PTSD in the medical community, however, there is still also a large amount of ignorance with the general public.