So, due to having to dispose of the remains of a goblin siege (56 Goblins) one of my dwarves - oh hey, yet another militia captain; a hunter of my crossbow squad...I REALLY should look up their stress resistance before making them part of the military...and not pick someone who "becomes completly helpless in stressful situations"... - had reached almost 101k stress for some time.
He decided that he had to be the one to carry the corpses (and parts) to the refuse piles, even though every time he got close to the blood-drenched battleground he almost froze due to being horrified.
Also, how come he got "frustrated by not being able to find someone in charge to cry on"? I thought they'd just run to the next noble (my duchess at that time)? Nothing prevented him from getting to her and I saw him next to her a few times. Is there something I have to do so that a stressful dwarf can complain properly...?
Anyway, a few of the other dwarves who constanly had bad thoughts from seeing the previous goblin siege's corpses felt nothing about seeing this siege's corpses; but whenever they saw the corpses of the previous siege, they got bad thoughts again. It seems like the severeness of the bad thought is stuck to the corpse at the moment the corpse became a corpse.
Which means I do have to get a proper waste disposal system running...luckily I embarked on a vulcano.