I read bits of her diaries while putting together the WWI talk and I don't think I could make it through the whole lot. It must have been awful for her to watch the world going back into another war and feeling that everything she'd done was going to be wiped away.

H.D. went into analysis with Freud in the early '30's for similar reasons. She had massive trauma from WWI and was considered to be overreacting to the build-up of what of course it turned out she was right about being WWII. (Freud was apparently useful and validating about it.)