we're talking about PTSD or STD?

@Atkins I can see that

the roman empire more or less defined historical christian borders

you experience shit that only other soldiers in your unit can relate to you with, trying to relate those experiences to anyone else is just alienating

PTSD was around in medieval times

hmmm maybe

sound interesting

keeping in mind that soldiers didn't return to normal lives after war

i might be able to find the video, skallagrim did one on it iirc

and stayed with their brothers in arms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZMSmcuiXM

but i do believe it existed from the moment humans could reason

Soldiers had it way better during the Roman empire. Do your tour, get paid, get a plot of land and political rights.

i don't think many soldiers had PTSD, compared to raided villages survivors.

that also its true tho

@Samer I kinda wonder about that

since soldiers in ancient times wouldn't have the experience of leaving their unit a few months after a traumatic event (or at least not as often), PTSD probably wasn't as prevalent. they'd be on campaign for years at a stretch.

Maybe also slaves?

the romanticized view puts crusaders as a bunch of psychopaths

but given how rare psychopaths actually are in a population, most of them were just normal guys

i dont blame the crusaders, they were tools

i blame the religion and the pope

Crusaders raided villages to survive in foreign lands, not uncommon

if they did have to do the things that we read about, it had to screw them up as much if not more

@Samer acute tramatic stress disorder is different from post tramatic stress disorder

either starve to death or raid that village

"foraging" like that was normal for millennia

Crusaders also met people in melee, with swords, at point blank. I think that might be a bit stressful

Do that for a while and you might break something inside

Romans being the exception as they tended to actually have supply lines

Even til napoleonic times they relied on taking resources from the lands they advanced into

yet they fell

obvious example of france advancing into russia

As have every empire ever

France made a mistake against Russia tho

hence scorched earth and salted earth retreat methods

"In enemy land always advance"

And its all enemy land

Napoleon was a vastly superior tactician to all his enemies, he could defeat them if his army was alive

until his army starved in the russian winter he was still favoured

Never underestimate russian winters though