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Post-Traumatic Stress 'Evident In 1300BC'
BBCNews ^ | January 23, 2015 | James Gallagher

Posted on 01/23/2015 7:44:38 PM PST by Steelfish

23 January 2015

Post-Traumatic Stress 'Evident In 1300BC' By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website

Evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder can be traced back to 1300BC - much earlier than previously thought - say researchers. The team at Anglia Ruskin University analysed translations from ancient Iraq or Mesopotamia. Accounts of soldiers being visited by "ghosts they faced in battle" fitted with a modern diagnosis of PTSD.

The condition was likely to be as old as human civilisation, the researchers concluded. Prof Jamie Hacker Hughes, a former consultant clinical psychologist for the Ministry of Defence, said the first description of PTSD was often accredited to the Greek historian Herodotus.

Referring to the warrior Epizelus during the battle of Marathon in 490BC he wrote: "He suddenly lost sight of both eyes, though nothing had touched him."

But Prof Hughes' report - titled Nothing New Under the Sun - argues there are references in the Assyrian Dynasty in Mesopotamia between 1300BC and 609BC.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So True!


21 posted on 01/24/2015 4:18:56 AM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: Bigg Red

Indeed.


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To: gleeaikin

Fascinating/heavy stuff. Thanks.


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To: Steelfish

How can you have Shell Shock thousands of years before shells?


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To: Bigg Red

Thank you.

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27 posted on 01/24/2015 8:36:38 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What history? Where?

Nope, nothing under the bed accept some beer cans and old socks.

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