How common are "berserker" type shock troops across cultures across history?

I just made this anonymous account to answer some of the questions here and nobody is going to believe me anyway so this won't come back to haunt me.

I am a berserker of the bear tribes from one of the Scandinavian countries. I have never taken drugs in order to become angry and help me when I get into a fight, I just have very good control of my emotions. If I think "I need to destroy them" while someone is trying to attack me it just triggers serious anger that can last for a long time if I allow it to. It also makes me much stronger than normal. For example, I usually only do about 300 pushups in one day, when I get angry or if it's just the right day, then my record is 1500 pushups in one evening and I stopped out of boredom.

Every man in my family and also one female cousin on my fathers side have been athletes on a national level. One has joined the junior national team for his sport, scholarships to universities, national cup wins. Personally I used to play for one of the two best teams in the country in handball for my age when I was younger. I have very good genetics for sports and gaining muscle. When I started going to the gym last year I maxed out on every machine at my first attempt without doing heavy labor or training for a very long time before that. My favourite was lat-pushdowns (muscle up with cable machine) because I could gain so quickly in that move and I managed to use 114kg for 27 straight reps and then dropping the weight to do more reps. I later left the gym since there were no more weights to use.

Being a "Berserkr/Berserker" is in the blood. Nobody else in my family is like me, they never got the specific gene activated. I can't really explain it much better than this but you need to come from the special bloodline and then the gene needs to be activated at birth but you can't fully become who you are supposed to be without a ritual. I knew from the age of 4 that I was different from everyone else and that I didn't have anything in common with others. For example, normal farm food like vegetables or dairy would be horrible for me. I can't really process a vast amount of food items and my diet at it's best is when I only eat a large amount of wild meat and maybe some amount of berries in the forest or something similar. My diet is very close to a bear I would say, but it can't be tampered with by humans or it will create some issues for my health. "Farm foods is poison" is my number one rule to dieting. I can also reveal that salmon doesn't help me at all and I don't think it would help a bear either. It doesn't improve my health at all. I see salmon as more like candy and it helps me gain weight, but it's not healthy for me. I don't usually eat fish.

It isn't as organized as it used to be, we still exist but many groups dissolved. We have always been individualistic and nobody really likes to talk or meet anyone, so many things have started to die out. Most of the culture just exist in my blood. Instead of anyone telling me what to do, it's more like "I just know that I need to do this and I'm not afraid to go through with this ritual. Things will be better afterwards." Then I do the most strange rituals that would scare christians to death and scream (again) that I am "satan in human form". They used to call us that as a way to justify deporting us from this country and burn down homes with families sleeping inside.

We can't really die out because being a Berserker is in the blood, so they can try but as long as there is one drop of blood of the bloodline and the gene is activated, then we will always be here. Even if the guy has to be completely alone, he will figure out who he is.

I hope this was fun reading for you. You can ask me questions if you want. Oh, one more thing. I actually don't know if there are foreign Berserkers.. I have never heard of them or communicated with them so I really don't know. I do know that there are scandinavians that tried to pretend to be us to scare others and things like that. But if they are taking drugs to get angry, then I don't think that they are, atleast I have never needed that.

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