Post-traumatic stress discovered in 1300BCE with accounts of 'ghosts faced in battle':
the timing of an old post being cited in this is slightly ironic as have it a bit again post Paris :-(
Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, a former consultant clinical psychologist for the Ministry of Defence, believes the first description of PTSD was accredited to Herodotus. The Greek historian describes what happened to a warrior called Epizelus during the battle of Marathon in 490BCE.
He "was in the thick of the fray, and behaving himself as a brave man should, when suddenly he was stricken with blindness, without blow of sword or dart; and this blindness continued thenceforth during the whole of his after life".
the timing of an old post being cited in this is slightly ironic as have it a bit again post Paris :-(