Did knights ever get ptsd?

Did knights ever get ptsd?

Probably not very often.

I read that PTSD is caused by staying in combat for extended periods of time. In medieval times battles were rare and comparatively brief, and sieges mostly just involved waiting outside the walls.

This is why it started appearing in the trenches in WW1, or in Vietnam, where the helicopter's ability to constantly shuffle around troops meant that they spent much more hours in combat than soldiers in previous wars.

>be captain
>see half your unit crushed from a Calvary charge
>start to get asphyxiation from stirred up dust, heat and lose visabilty from the dust of said calvary charge
>panic and think youre alone becuase you literally cant tell who is on your side anymore
>flee the battle only to think your being chased by what is actually the rest of your unit

Yes. Ptsd happened.

Try reading more. PTSD can be caused by any traumatic event, not just sustained combat.

t. feminist

What makes you say that user?

Yes. There a accounts of soldiers with similar symptoms going back to ancient Greece. Shakespeare provides an extremely vivid account of one of his characters suffering from it in Henry IV.

Modern soldiers like to pretend it's only a recent thing because they want to be special snowfakes and not admit they're just like every other generation of soldiers.

He is right.

Thats not what he was implying

Yes, but back then it was just called being a man and besides that, pretty much everyone was batshit crazy so no one could tell the difference