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A potential counterpoint - "Post-traumatic stress 'evident in 1300BC'"[1]. The technology, tools and languages available to humans has expanded a huge amount o
by jka 7y ago
A potential counterpoint - "Post-traumatic stress 'evident in 1300BC'"[1].
The technology, tools and languages available to humans has expanded a huge amount over recent centuries.
The question, I guess, is whether the psychological consequences of experiencing and processing reality (and, particularly, trauma) has changed as a result.
[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30957719 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30957719
- papeda 7y agoThe featured article's pitch is that there's still way more historical writing about war, including ignoble stuff, and this imbalance still strongly suggests that PTSD was somehow much less common. (It's also funny that the BBC article mentions the strong Herodotus PTSD example that the featured article treats as a repeatedly-rehashed outlier.)