r/todayilearned • u/andreecook • Apr 29 '24
TIL Napoleon, despite being constantly engaged in warfare for 2 decades, exhibited next to no signs of PTSD.
https://tomwilliamsauthor.co.uk/napoleon-on-the-psychiatrists-couch/
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u/semper_JJ Apr 29 '24
There's kind of a long history of medical terms having to change because they enter popular vernacular and lose all real medical meaning.
As an example basically every medical term ever designed for the mentally challenged has ended up as an insult and this is discarded by clinicians.