PTSD Wasn’t Acknowledged Yet
The concept that post-traumatic stress disorder wasn't truly identified or documented until the 20th Century is frequently disseminated in history classrooms. The general opinion is that World War I, which marked the beginning of that age, was only written off as "shell shock." People are presumed to have been trained with sterner material than they can muster now because life away from the battlefield was so much tougher than modern conveniences. Because they believed that civilization was softening up their soldiers, even Ancient Romans occasionally credited barbarian soldiers with being more resilient.
Even while they may not have used the term "post-traumatic stress disorder," ancient historians did note the impacts. The famed historian Herodotus, who chronicled the Greco-Persian Wars, identified spear-carrier Epizelus as having psychological issues after the war had concluded. According to a PBS documentary from hundreds of years ago, Assyrian tablets documented the psychological suffering that soldiers had experienced as a result of their time in the military.
Although Huangdi's Canon of Medicine, written around 200 BC, makes no direct references to the term in Ancient China, it strongly alludes to soldiers who experience suspiciously comparable psychological disorders. The research suggests that having less technology does not always result in super-soldiers.
