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Rigorous Science

Would post-traumatic stress disorder exist identically in a pre-industrial warfare setting?

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I'm not into psychology, but I've heard a lot about veterans who have committed suicide, went crazy, became addicted or have their lives ruined in other ways because of the shock they lived through the warzone.

The constant exposure to danger, explosions, filth, blood, human remains and such are indeed negative in respect to the human mind, but warzones used to be different before the invention of guns and other portable gunpowder-based weapons. It means that the entire mentality of warfare was different.

Is PTSD possible in case of veterans in such a world? To be more precise: I think it likely is, but then what's the difference from the aforementioned, present-days example?

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