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Why back then mental illness was rare now it's the norm? They even have people making a trend out of being crazy and not right in the head.

They shifted the definition of mental illness

If we are not politically correct, then we are (by definition) ... mentally ill.
HeteroDox · 36-40, F
because the social stigma is lessening. the problems always existed, but embarrassed to talk about.
NeuroticByNature · 41-45, F
Because back then someone crazy was locked up. Out of sight out of mind.
FloorGenAdm · 51-55, M
It's the war of 2020 that nobody's talking about. 🤐
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curiosi · 61-69, F
Chemicals we are exposed to way to many chemicals. They mess with your brain. People are way to soft as well hard work makes one more resilient. And as mentioned they changed the definition, everyone who doesn't go with the party line is labeled.
It was just considered possession and you'd be locked away, self medicate with herbs or alcohol or be tortured to get the devil out of you.
MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
The same thing happened after the great depression (no pun intended). After the great recession, similar things happened.
It [b]wasn’t[/b] that rare, but people were institutionalized back then. Now they’re treated with meds on an out-patient basis, not locked away and forgotten.
MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
Another statistical bias is that when more doctors learn how to diagnose something, the number always goes up. Bipolar disease, PTSD, Asperger's, Alzheimer's, etc...
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MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
@Jeremy6767 That's very understandable. The key is know what diagnoses include sudden violence. Never just get angry (road rage), you never know who is inches from climbing a clock tower.
[c=#359E00] because people run out of things to promoted as trend[/c]
Wiseacre · F
It wasnt rare..just too much stigma to talk about it.
@Wiseacre Exactly...
Quizzical · 46-50, M
It's a similar thing to cancer. Once upon a time a death from cancer was considered natural causes because we knew no better. Now we know much more about mental health rather than just using 'insane' as an umbrella term.
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
Not more rare, just more visible. People didn't talk about the specifics of mental health. You were either locked away and out of sight, people just assumed you were either stupid or an ass, or you were just harmless Uncle Bob who had a tendency to go off on strange rants.

We didn't have knowledge to identify what we were seeing, so we gave it a label we were comfortable with and never stopped to ask WHY Uncle Bob went on his rants, we just accepted that that's who he was and never questioned whether he could be or wanted to be helped.
Chickie · F
People are just know talking about it and some people fake mental illness because people think it's "cool"

 
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