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 nothing new. Back during WWI it was called “shell shock”. Back during the middle ages veterans and society as a whole had so many other issues (deafness, syphilis, and so on) that PTSD just got written up to “drinks too much” or “just a shitty person” that it didn’t get noticed. It’s not like what we’d call medicine, psychology, or science existed back then.
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