How Was Depression Treated Before Meds Were Invented? Posted: 04-10-07 07:06am
Anyone know
I've been wondering that for quite some
time now...
(thought I'd post this question here cause
it's not a medical concern but just a
general question)
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paraphobia
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Answer Posted: 04-10-07 08:04am
hi from wat ive studied people was thrown
in an asylum ,
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mc4ever02
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Posted: 04-10-07 09:11am
I don't think it was treated at all. It is
technically classified as a mental
disease. It was not something that people
talked about openly until the last few
decades. As the previous poster commented,
I agree that the severely depressed and
manic deppresives were probably taken to a
hospital so that it did not look bad on
that family. Not that this is the only way
things were handled. I also believe that
the suicide rate was much higher in those
times.
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Vesalius
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Depression Back Then Posted: 04-10-07 17:06pm
I believe one of the first men to
characterise a low mood which continuous
throughout a decent margin is Aristotle.
He describes it as "melancholy". He
believed this was induced by an increase
of black bile in the body. His
philosophical thinkings concluded that the
body was made of four humours and any
inbalance of such would result in a
dysfuntion.
However so, one of him famous quotes
"Melancholy men are of all other the most
witty".
