Is PTSD a new thing or has it been with humans forever ?

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I saw a video today about the sniper who had the longest distance kill in the world and he talked about his PTSD. I was wondering why PTSD has such a bad reputation and isn’t discussed more in the public discourse. Is it because the circumstances for example in war changed ? Armies in the antique or Middle Ages were huge and a broad majority of soldiers must have been absolutely traumatized when they returned, so why did no one care about them ?

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PTSD is a label that’s applied to people who show enough symptoms from a specific list. People have always shown those symptoms, but the label of PTSD is relatively new.

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