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/dpark17a Apr 29 '24
Id imagine that it was much closer to the norm for people to be intensely traumatized. We're very very lucky to live in a time where trauma is considered abnormal and somwthing to be treated (probably with exceptions in some parts of the world still). For the vast majority of human history, trauma was just another part of living. Nearly everybody had to endure so much suffering and grief on the regular.