Evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder can be traced back to 1300BC - much earlier than previously thought - say researchers.
No kidding, and not only related to Military and War Theaters. But the constant stress's and fears and battles of those theaters, even if not participating but knowing, buries the incidents of into the brain of otherwise civil humans and are the total opposite of what most are brought up in thinking and mind growth development.
24 January 2015 - 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."
But Prof Hughes' report - titled Nothing New Under the Sun - argues there are references in the Assyrian Dynasty in Mesopotamia between 1300BC and 609BC.
Ghosts
In that era men spent a year being toughened up by building roads, bridges and other projects, before spending a year at war and then returning to their families for a year before starting the cycle again.
snip A diagnosis and understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder emerged after the Vietnam War. It was dismissed as shell shock in World War One. read more>>>
Those served find it extremely easy to ignore many issues or just plain deny issues, as they did since us Vietnam Vets and friends of finally put a name to the not so hidden condition from war theaters, while making comfortable livings in doing so, especially in conservative political circles and praised as experts in, so they don't have to sacrifice and fully uphold their promises to the few who serve them, while they wave their flags of, poser, patriotism!
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