A photographer and a soldier talk about dealing with PTSD from being in war situations – The Washington Post

Perspective | ‘My appetite for covering conflict faded gradually, a light waning until there was nothing left to see’

Former Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly talks about a book he co-authored with former Marine Thomas James Brennan

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/08/22/my-appetite-for-covering-conflict-faded-gradually-a-light-waning-until-there-was-nothing-left-to-see/

I wish I could pinpoint a defining moment, or a shutter click that marked the instant when I’d had enough of covering war. But I can’t. Maybe there was one hidden amid the dust and rubble and broken bodies I’d left behind when I walked out of Gaza after the 2014 war there. But rather than a sudden change of heart, my appetite for covering conflict faded gradually, a light waning until there was nothing left to see.