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[Anonymous No.17058745]

Why isn't depression widely documented in literature before the 19th century?

[Anonymous No.17058748]

>>17058745
It is, you just a pseud.

[Anonymous No.17058750]

bruh

[Anonymous No.17058775]

>>17058745
Rationalism took away everything that gave life meaning and once the high from revolutions and hope for a better future ran out everyone was just left to deal with it

[Anonymous No.17058791]

>>17058745
but it was

[Anonymous No.17058805]

>>17058745
Because, as everyone knows, the existence of the United States is the leading cause of depression globally.

[Anonymous No.17058846]

Depression is the result of late stage neoliberalism.

[Anonymous No.17058864]

>>17058745
Back then, emotions weren't pathologised for the benefit of quack therapists and the pharmaceutical industry.

[Anonymous No.17058868]

>>17058846
>late stage neoliberalism
LOL, the sophomore's catchphrase.
So when do you graduate? And what are you going to do with your """social science""" degree?

[Anonymous No.17058903]

>>17058868
I have never gone to college and I never will you retarded tranny.

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYwWWmRs No.17059129]

>>17058745


YES, IT WAS, BUT, IN ADDITION TO BEING BETTER DIAGNOSED, AND BETTER TREATED, THAN TODAY, IT WAS CALLED BY A MORE ACCURATE TERM: «MELANCHOLIA».

[Anonymous No.17059164]

>>17058846
>being this politically illiterate

[Anonymous No.17059176]

>>17058745
Because depression was just a temporary condition when people were still religious/spiritual. The rise of depression is directly linked to the rise of materialism, especially since the industrial revolution.

[Anonymous No.17059187]

>>17058745
Because they used to say he had too much black bile. That is, melecholia.

[Anonymous No.17060294]

any medieval stories of depression?

[Anonymous No.17060461]

Everyone died to quick for their depression to cause much of a disturbance.

No one really cares about other people's problems until you have to pay for it because you have some dumb socialist welfare shit. If someone is depressed and doesn't want to get up then let them sleep until they starve.

Dumb people dying isn't a problem, its a solution.

[Anonymous No.17060474]

In a world where people categorize schizophrenics as possessed, do you think they would be any more capable of recognizing biological depression, when even our own society still fails at it?

[Anonymous No.17060499]

>>17058750
Based, this.

[Anonymous No.17060618]

That's because being miserable was the norm

[Anonymous No.17060649]

>>17058745
read more you pleb. The anatomy of melancholy is basically the book about depression

[Anonymous No.17062185]

>>17058745
Back then it was called 'melancholy'

[Anonymous No.17062219]

>>17059129
GET THE FUCK OUT NAMEFAG CUNT ALL YOUR POSTS ARE BELOW AVERAGE
I'M SAGING EVERY SINGLE THREAD I POST IN WHERE YOU APPEAR