Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?

Re:Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world? by agumonkey on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:56AM (#22994961)

I do believe that modern society regressed on these topics.

Another instance is "insanity". Today the standard answer is psychiatry/psychiatric ward.. But there was a documentary about mildly handicapped people being hosted by a group of elders in a big house. And these potential patient, looked happy as a puppy in this environment. Gut feeling level of improvement IMO. Now I think I've read that people accepted handicap that way before .. it was just how life was sometimes, and it seems it was a better answer than stuck in a hospital.

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Re:Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world? by rsynnott on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:50AM (#22995297)

Mildly mentally handicapped people normally aren't institutionalised today. Long-term/residential psychiatric hospitals are for very severe cases.

This feels like a pretty rosy-tinted view of pre-modern institutionalisation, too. A lot of these people would have ended up in workhouses and similar.

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Re:Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world? by agumonkey on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:24PM (#22997855)

Well at least in this case the patient were interned before.

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Re:Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world? by mantap on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:31AM (#22995186)

At least where I live the only reason someone would be put on a psych ward is because they are a danger to themselves or others.

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