Or is it just becoming "popular" so to speak now because of all the new meds out there?
And I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I have been on my share of depression drugs, which have worked tremendously well by the way. (that along with talk therapy) I resisted the drugs at first, but when I couldn't get out of bed in the morning to go to work or would just cry at a drop of a dime, my doctor finally convinced me to give Zoloft a try due to a "chemical imbalance". Damn, I'm glad I finally listened to him, it saved my life, literally!
What are your thoughts?
2006-08-20 09:25:07 · 7 answers · asked by Left Footed 5 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Yeah definitely theres always been mental illness but I do think that today's lifestyle contributes to the problem a bit. Like lack of activity (regular exercise has been proven to be almost as effective as drugs in helping relieve moderate depression), illegal drug usage, lack of predictability or percieved predictability, technology, etc. Also babies born premature or with birth defects have a higher survival rate than they did once upon a time, and based on personal experience these children are at risk for mental health issues later in life for multiple reasons (stress, abuse from peers/family, chemical imbalances).
2006-08-20 10:44:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
surely God's call isn't Yahweh or God... He had yet another call that he printed to Moses and a few others and it develop into taught, yet human beings did no longer elect to apply that call in ineffective in any respect so it develop into lost alongside time in the past. every time on your Bible which you spot GOD or LORD in small capital letters is the place this call develop into initially written. some cool historic previous at the back of it relatively is decrease back while the scribes that have been writing a clean reproduction of the Pentateuch (first 5 books interior the Bible) they could bypass shave, take a bathtub, positioned on new cloths, grab a clean quill and new ink source and write God's call down. Then they could wreck the quill and throw it and the ink source out. That way it develop into as clean because it must be and not something ought to soil that quill or ink ever. They did this every time they had to write God's call. With the Jesus ingredient, it has to do with translating the Bible into diverse languages. a solid occasion of that's while Peter claims that Jesus is the Lord and Jesus responds with some thing like and on that confession i got here upon my church. interior the unique text fabric the observe used there is pronounced Petros i've got self assurance. The catholics interpret it as Jesus founding his Church on Peter subsequently why they see Peter because of the fact the 1st pope. in certainty the observe "petros" in that language skill rock or some thing sturdy or organization. Jesus develop into asserting that he develop into founding his church on that sturdy or organization confession... no longer peter. purely some extras in there for you :)
2016-12-11 12:11:05 · answer #2 · answered by moncalieri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of indications that both Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln suffered from some level of depression. They used to refer to it as "melancholia." In the past suicide was a lot more common than it is today, primarily because the treatments for these problems and for alcoholism were so poor.
2006-08-20 10:24:54 · answer #3 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think depression has been around a long time. Exercise does help depression though and I think back in the times when people had to physically work harder to survive the physical activity was enough to stave off paralyzing depression.
2006-08-25 00:49:09 · answer #4 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we take OCD as a case study, we can see that it isn't just a faddy disease. Priests were treating 'scrupilosity' as it was then called in the 1600s. And Freud wrote extensively on the subject. These diseases are merely becoming more rcognised and accepted.
2006-08-20 09:39:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depression has been described since the ancient greeks and egyptions
Freud wrote about death anxiety in the early 20th century
2006-08-20 09:33:59 · answer #6 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yep.
maybe not as common, though, because people had to work to survive (less time to build up bad thoughts).
2006-08-20 10:25:02 · answer #7 · answered by aerin G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋