Posted on 11/15/2012 11:59:32 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Back then you were not depressed, you were melancholy. You were not expected to get better and no one was surprised when you died in a strange accident involving a rope and chair or cleaning your gun or possibly ate something that disagreed with you.
Later on they reached for "mother's little helper".
Now people are expected to be sober and functional most of the time.
Sometimes the pills help. Sometimes other things help. But the odd idea that depression and other mental conditions is somehow something that has just appeared is to ignore history.
The Communists love psychiatry.
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