Did gladiators suffer from PTSD? Or do you think the environment being for entertainment, made it less traumatic on the human psyche. As opposed to marching out into a field with 20,000 other men and hacking away at each other until one side wins.
PTSD in ancient times
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Blake Robinson
I doubt it was that entertaining environment for the gladiator's involved. Killing another human being is pretty hard on the psyche no matter the situation.
Colton Allen
PTSD is watered down rhetoric to further disconnect people from humanizing such an awful condition. Technically PTSD can be caused by someone holding you down and farting in your face. It's vague dehumanized jargon.
Shell Shock, on the other hand, isn't something that can be adopted by anybody who has an unpleasant experience. It's too grounded in truth to be molded by abstract definitions. Shell Shock is universally known to be an extreme combat related ailment that destroyed men who endured a neurological snap.
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Brayden Bell
Some probably did. There are various reactions to killing, from feeling nothing at all to absolutely losing your shit over it. The gladiators that felt nothing probably did quite well, the gladiators that lost it were too distracted to survive for long, but the gladiators that reveled in it were the ones that rose up the ranks.
Julian Lee
the slaves would have been messed up mentally, the trained gladiators would have most likley been alright since they had been preparing for it for months
Luke Butler
They most likely did it was just called differently.
The current definition of PTSD started somewhere around WWI (shell shock) because the battles lasted much longer than before and soldiers had to endure stress for weeks at a time.
It's one thing to be in a stressful situation for a few hours and another to fight for days/weeks at a time.
Owen Howard
Lindybeige has a video on this
Josiah Brooks
Shell-shock came from the constant artillery barrages that would cause men to lose their fucking minds. Days of nonstop explosions drove them mad. Add some death and carnage, a gloomy environment devoid of all life and WALLAH! You have fucked up mind.
Eli Lee
>Lindy "Cavalry is stupid" Beige
>Lindy "Operation Market Garden was a success" Beige
>Lindy "The Bren Gun Won WW2" Beige
James Parker
I'm sure sieges and the like took a toll on people too, and they could go on for months.