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Did warriors in ancient times get PTSD? Or is that a modern construct since soldiers in modern times stay in war zones for 9-15 month deployments and live under constant stress of being blown up or shot and dyin. Sometimes without even seeing the man who did it.
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>>1648171
Yes, they did. Ancient battles were fucking terrifying despite how short they are. The main difference is that modern battle slowly drives you insane, and it hits everyone. Ancient battle was a short concentrated period of madness that some managed to tough through.
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>>1648171
they smoked cannabis before during and after battle and were evolutionarily superior for it
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They were also probably slightly more used to it considering they wouldn't been surrounded by high infant mortality and untreatable illness
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>>1648318
>evolutionarily superior
>by the aid of narcotics
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>>1648171
If you feel like reading, you should look into the book Achilles in Vietnam. A lot of instances in the Iliad can be described by modern people as signs of traumatic shock or PTSD.
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>>1648329
>retroactively bans 850,000 years of symbiotic special evolution, warfare, and genetic selection through killing
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