> Ancient warriors apparently didn’t get PTSD Ancient warriors didn't get PTSD because they fought the "normal" way that we'd evolved to fight: hand-to-hand (a

> Ancient warriors apparently didn’t get PTSD Ancient warriors didn't get PTSD because they fought the "normal" way that we'd evolved to fight: hand-to-hand (and of course there were arrows). Not sitting in a trench for months in awful weather, suffering disease and exhaustion while you wait to be bombed, or ordered to charge into machine guns and mortars with little chance of even encountering the enemy before you die in the mud. Not living in a base among a potentially hostile populace where anyone could shoot you in the back, or lay a bomb for you, or box you in traffic and machine gun the whole vehicle to Swiss cheese. The "you vs your opponent, fighting to the death" is not the traumatic part; it's the constant waiting for a pervasive, effectively invisible force that kills off or grievously injures your comrades one-by-one (losing friends until you finally stop making them in order to keep the pain at bay), and you're powerless to stop it because all the weapons are so huge and deadly and attack from range or concealment, at all hours, and your own personal strength and training - although they help - aren't going to count for much against it.