PTSD in Old Times

by necessaryninjakid1

Medieval times are often depicted with tales of brutal hand to hand combat. Are there old records or first hand accounts of symptoms associated with PTSD through combat?

DanKensington

It's a complicated matter, made even more so by the inherent difficulty of psychoanalysing a long-dead person from a wholly different cultural background at a distance of years or centuries. u/Iphikrates examines the matter in this post, while u/hillsonghoods has a Monday Methods post on just why it's so complicated.