06-10-2002, 09:50 AM
Nope, he didn't.<br>
However my assumption is that PTSD did exist then, since the conditions triggering it (extreme stress, terror and so on..), existed in ancient battles.<br>
But what must not be forgotten is that at that time people were totally ignorant of psychiatry. For them, a nightmare wasn't PTSD, just a bad dream sent by the Gods. I suppose that helped somewhat. Performing religious rites was probably a very good medecine, as long as you truly believed.<br>
I suppose the first psychiatrists were those priests in that temple in Greece where people came to have dreams and have them analyzed.<br>
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However my assumption is that PTSD did exist then, since the conditions triggering it (extreme stress, terror and so on..), existed in ancient battles.<br>
But what must not be forgotten is that at that time people were totally ignorant of psychiatry. For them, a nightmare wasn't PTSD, just a bad dream sent by the Gods. I suppose that helped somewhat. Performing religious rites was probably a very good medecine, as long as you truly believed.<br>
I suppose the first psychiatrists were those priests in that temple in Greece where people came to have dreams and have them analyzed.<br>
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