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Mental illness has always been common and often been cool in one form or another. Serial killers get fan mail, that’s true now and it was true 100 years ago.
by Retric 8mo ago
Mental illness has always been common and often been cool in one form or another.
Serial killers get fan mail, that’s true now and it was true 100 years ago.
- hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 8mo agoI think a lot of people still grow out of that phase. Like wanting to be like the Joker or taking a 'am I a sociopath' test online and finding your new edgelord persona only to find it deeply cringeworthy later.
- _w7qa 8mo ago100 years ago, people with mental illness were assumed to be "possessed by demons" and were either institutionalized against their will, lobotomized, or both. Or just left to die.
- Retric 8mo agoPeople are still institutionalized against their will others are left to die on the streets, but not all mental illness is particularly severe. Psychoanalysis while mostly quackery is ~135 years old providing an example where talking was considered a viable therapy not just locking people up or tossing out lobotomies left and right to anyone slightly abnormal. So sure, 100 years ago there was quackery just as today, but “possessed by demons” wasn’t considered mainstream back then any more than it is today.