In such a difficult time, when fighting is going on, I wanted to highlight the topic of the psychology of “combat trauma”. The term “Mental trauma” is defined as an event in a person’s life that goes beyond ordinary human experiences. Trauma in general is the experience of what has been experienced, together with an emotional set of fear, horror, shock, anxiety, aggression, depression and a state of internal helplessness. Combat trauma is being actively studied and is more commonly known as PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is classified as an anxiety disorder, and adjustment disorders are an integral part of the clinical picture. It is very important to understand that each person has a subjective and unique reaction to a traumatic event, and it is often not tied to the event itself, which means that one may have fixation of traumatic experience, while the other does not. Let’s say that two fighters who find themselves on the battlefield, under equal conditions, may have different reactions to a past event. One of them will receive “mild stress” or a relatively “mild” reaction to the event, which is subsequently leveled out, and the other may receive a severe traumatic experience with a delay in time. There is a wide range of subtleties and factors influencing a person from the point of view of receiving mental combat trauma , but no one has yet canceled the basis of physiology. It is important to emphasize that the unique and subjective response to stress is driven by the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and hormonal merry-go-round. Every person’s body has a specific stress regulation system – the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenaline system, which regulates hormones, in particular cortisol. To simplify such a complex moment, then it is either in balance or in imbalance. Psychological factors that ensure the perception of an “exorbitant situation” also have a direct influence - this is mistreatment in childhood, early psychological trauma, psychological violence in the family, alcohol and drug addiction , high sensitivity to anxiety and certain “coping strategies” (mental chewing gum, certain personal attitudes, sacrifice). We can distinguish 2 main personal types of response to the experience: * The past “does not let go” - traumatic images, obsessive thoughts, intrusively and persistently return, nightmares in dreams.* Strategy of avoiding the past, thoughts, memories of experiences. The person withdraws and limits his circle of acquaintances. It’s worth talking separately about “flashbacks,” which are characteristic of trauma. The experience, not processed, not released, breaks out of memory in fragments (previously repressed) and is compared with the stimulus, or the stimulus prompts the occurrence of a flashback. For example: more than a year passes after the injury, a “former” fighter walks down the street and sees a man with a beard waving his arms, this image similar to the one that was in an extreme situation and then experiences awaken, they begin to “capture” the fighter, physiological reactions arise, rapid heartbeat, intermittent breathing, sweating in the hands. A flashback from the auditory series may also occur - a click, a knock, the sound of an airplane or car – forces a person to bend down, make sudden movements, or take a fighting pose. In modern drone warfare, visual control is also observed, the fighter is constantly looking at the sky, while experiencing anxiety and insecurity, even if he is no longer on the battlefield. One of the clear signs of PTSD is a difficult loss of the ability to establish close and friendly relationships with other people. The feeling of love and joy practically “melts down”, feelings of loneliness and alienation grow - a person begins to feel his own change, the emergence of an “Other Self”. Depressive episodes, a state of prolonged depression, sleep problems, fatigue, persistent apathy, verbal and emotional aggression, unmotivated flares,.