What do we know about PSD in the pre 1500 days?

by medwatt

It's very common to hear of soldiers suffering from PTSD. While I'm sure there would definitely be cases of people back then suffering from PTSD, the question is, was it as pervasive back then as it is now?

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.