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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It's the same about depression. I doubt people got "more depressed", society have just ignored depression for almost the entirety of human history. My mother still tells me to "just be happy" like I can control brain chemicals. Literally nothing makes me happy. Petting my cat only slightly lessens my suffering. Ugh ๐Ÿ˜“

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder what the coal mines were like

[โ€“] towerful 14 points 1 month ago

Alcoholics, probably

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While I'm sure most of it has always been here, I would be surprised if modern technology hasn't contributed to a spike in depression. I have more content and information than I could ever need in the palm of my hands, and yet everything I read seems to make me hate people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah in 1940 you knew wealthier people had it better but you really never saw how much better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Nor could you easily learn how people in other countries lived.

It was way easier to have this garbage Healthcare system we have in the US back when nobody knew that other countries had it for free (potentially, I don't know what year it was implemented in most countries but you get my point).

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think I agree with this one. There's so much about lives lived in first world countries, with all the signals and information they are bombarded with, that is almost anti-thetical to our biology. I'm certain we are more mentally unwell than people living simply, especially in the past.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd assume coal miners and starving peasants just had different psychological issues (mostly, I bet some got depressed anyway, especially as a secondary effect of the other issues). Like PTSD, anxiety and the like.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If depression wasn't common someone needs to explain how we have seen so much more of it as fewer people are drinking as much as they had in the past.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Marx's Capital mentions at one point that the working class in Manchester were reliant on drugs like opium to cope with their insane working conditions and poor life/housing conditions.

It's not a new thing at all.