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| Post-traumatic stress disorder 'evident in 1300BC' | |
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| CJ | Jan 24 2015, 05:16 PM Post #1 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30957719 Evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder can be traced back to 1300BC - much earlier than previously thought - say researchers. The team at Anglia Ruskin University analysed translations from ancient Iraq or Mesopotamia. Accounts of soldiers being visited by "ghosts they faced in battle" fitted with a modern diagnosis of PTSD. The condition was likely to be as old as human civilisation, the researchers concluded. Prof Jamie Hacker Hughes, a former consultant clinical psychologist for the Ministry of Defence, said the first description of PTSD was often accredited to the Greek historian Herodotus. Referring to the warrior Epizelus during the battle of Marathon in 490BC he wrote: "He suddenly lost sight of both eyes, though nothing had touched him." Not something that particularly surprises me, really. After all, the condition itself would probably have occurred a lot under those circumstances - and it would have been easy enough to describe the symptoms, even if they didn't know what exactly they were describing. |
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| GrieferLord | Jan 24 2015, 10:24 PM Post #2 |
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Tank Sniper
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plus back then they were far more brutal in how they killed people so im sure it was just as bad to witness. |
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