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Post by misterdeath on Feb 15, 2018 3:46:09 GMT
Post Tramatic Stress Disorder is a condition that is caused by a psychological shock or physical injury that causes people to vivdly remember those events throwing them into a random state. Now I have contemplated this question for a while as it always made me curious of the life of an average soldier on the battlefield say 1000 to 2000 years ago.
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Post by Elizabeth on Feb 15, 2018 4:48:03 GMT
I think it existence back then too. A battle is a battle whether now or then and if someone goes through a battle then they can develope PTSD
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Post by skapunkboi on Feb 15, 2018 4:56:13 GMT
I think it existence back then too. A battle is a battle whether now or then and if someone goes through a battle then they can develope PTSD Especially when you could lose your fucking genitals being castrated by a rusty sword. That's no good. And a sure way to get PTSD. I have to say, even if we do find documents about PTSD experiences back in the day, we can never really accurately diagnose these people because they simply aren't here in person. It's all just assumptions. Just like how we can only make assumptions that Mozart and Kant were autistic.
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Post by AmericanCharm on Feb 15, 2018 4:57:22 GMT
Yes I am sure many did. I know ancient Assyrian soldiers were haunted by war. “In his account of battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Greek historian Herodotus recorded the story of a man that went inexplicably blind after witnessing the death of one of his comrades. Until recently, this was believed to be earliest-known record of what modern medicine calls post-traumatic stress disorder”. Soldiers in ancient Assyria (located in present-day Iraq) were tied to a grueling three-year cycle, the The British Broadcasting Channel notes. They typically spent one year being “toughened up by building roads, bridges and other projects, before spending a year at war and then returning to their families for a year before starting the cycle again.” By studying translations of known texts, the historians were able to see just how familiar symptoms of PTSD might have been to Assyrian soldiers. Co-author of the study and director of the Anglia Ruskin University’s Veterans and Families Institute, Professor Jamie Hacker Hughs told British Broadcasting Channel "The sorts of symptoms after battle were very clearly what we would call now post-traumatic stress symptoms. "They described hearing and seeing ghosts talking to them, who would be the ghosts of people they'd killed in battle - and that's exactly the experience of modern-day soldiers who've been involved in close hand-to-hand combat." As the study’s abstract states, the researchers also found instances of soldiers reporting “flashbacks, sleep disturbance and low mood." PTSD wasn’t clinically recognized in the U.S. until 1980, following a surge in classifiable cases from soldiers returning home from the Vietnam War. Before that, terms like “shell shock” were used to describe post-combat psychological struggles, and many soldiers, either because of external pressures or their own feelings of shame, kept quiet about emotional injuries first sustained in war. This new research helps to demonstrate that, despite only recently receiving wide recognition, the correlation between war and post-traumatic stress is likely as old as human civilization. source is from the www.smithsonianmag.com.
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Post by Polaris on Feb 15, 2018 5:40:21 GMT
yes, most sure that happened to some of those who served in wars, However it should have been overlooked by the one who suffered and those around him as a minor symptom of bad memories ,and as long as he was not physically injured he was OK. the whole thing is that they had poor diagnostic means and accordingly their reaction to symptoms should not be as sensitive as ours today
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Post by Mocha on Feb 15, 2018 14:05:23 GMT
Where did people say that? I'd like to see their reasoning. EDIT: It's not letting me quote you, but I was talking about the Mozart/Kant thing.
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Post by skapunkboi on Feb 15, 2018 23:39:04 GMT
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