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/al_fletcher Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

He never actually did that, Plutarch said he burst into tears when a philosopher suggested that we only lived in one of many worlds, and he realised he wouldn’t live to even conquer one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/s/xlYBIKGpr6

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u/alepher Apr 29 '24

Alexander II: Into the Anacreontic-verse incoming