Some reports say that one is six soldiers returning from Iraq show signs of post traumatic stress. The thousand-yard stare should be no surprise.

The image—and many others like it—is for all those who feel astonished by the world around them and everything playing out in it. However old you are and whatever you stand for, there are ...

What is the "1000 Yard Stare"? Often linked to soldiers and those who’ve endured intense experiences, it’s a powerful symbol of trauma and survival. ‘We’re Just a Little Hurt’—Canadian ...

Puffing on a cigarette, a Kalashnikov AK-47 slung awkwardly across his little shoulders, seven-year-old Ahmed stands at a makeshift barricade in Syria. He is one of the youngest fighters to be ...

He seemed stunned, uncertain for once. And the haunted look in his eyes reminded me of what soldiers in Vietnam used to call the thousand-yard stare–the paralytic shock that comes from seeing ...

He is one of hundreds of ­ vulnerable children so traumatised by the siege of Aleppo that they have been left with what soldiers call “the 1,000-yard stare”. Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon ...