Posted by bulldog2 on December 7, 2006, at 8:13:08 [reposted on December 7, 2006, at 23:47:24 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Why your medicine may not help » bulldog2, posted by laima on December 6, 2006, at 16:24:06
Of course primitive societies suffered stress, warfare and other negative conditions. I'm not talking about a utopian society either. But I think that people lived in the moment and didn't go to bed or stay isolated in their huts. You had to hunt, grow food or die. You celebrated when there was something to celebrate and you mourned when there was something to mourn.
Yes there has always been depression but if you look at our society with rampant murder rates, divorce and broken homes with schools and all our institutions under assult that is a cause for concern. People are pack animals and depend on the glue of these institutions to hold us together. As people become disconnected from each other there will be negative consequences to our mental health.
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