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 has always existed. In WWI, it was called “shell shock” and was typically untreated. There’s countless reports through history of soldiers returning from battle changed in bad ways. Before the 19th century, we lacked the framework to even discuss psychology let alone begin to understand it. But that doesn’t mean psychological issues didn’t exist then, just that we didn’t understand what they were.
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