[Brokenfriend]

I wonder what people went through who had our conditions fifty, to a hundred, to thousands of years ago.

Are there any books about this? Did they get rejected by society. Did they get rejected by family. Did they take opiates, morphine or things like that. Are they completely forgotten by their families. Did they become abandoned,and die?

It must have been awful to have these issues without proper medications, and help. BF

[Mari]

Originally Posted by Brokenfriend

I wonder what people went through who had our conditions fifty, to a hundred, to thousands of years ago.

Are there any books about this? Did they get rejected by society. Did they get rejected by family. Did they take opiates, morphine or things like that. Are they completely forgotten by their families. Did they become abandoned,and die?

It must have been awful to have these issues without proper medications, and help. BF

I could not find much.


Cannabis Britannica: The rise and demise of a Victorian wonder-drug


Opium, morphine, heroin
Drugs in the Victorian Era by on Prezi



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[OhKay]

There is obviously a long an unpleasant history of the treatment of people with mental health disorders, but I'm sure that didn't stop good people from trying to come up with humane and effective treatments.

Lithium has been used since the late 1800s to treat mania:

Lithium: A History of the First Mood Stabilizer

[Brokenfriend]

I'm glad that I wasn't born a thousand years ago. I know that people have not understood what I'm going through in these modern times. I can't imagine what they would have done to me one thousand years ago. BF

[OhKay]

I do think it's an interesting subject that you brought up, BF. But I think that it would probably be disturbing to read about... and maybe not the best thing to ponder about

[Brokenfriend]

I wonder how the soldiers in WW II who came back with PTSD got treated. People who went through D Day, and came home stressed must have had a hard time during, and after. I've only heard about some soldiers one time who were stressed after WWII, or WWI. General Patton gave one a hard time in a med tent. Gen. Patton got in trouble for that to when Gen. Eisenhower found out about it.

I know that there was a mental hospital called Bedlam in England. It sounds like it was a negative place. People with their human nature are going to only talk bad about a place like that. I wonder if any good happened there?

There were Sanatoriums in different places where people with tuberculosis were brought to. What were they before?

I remember a joke, or song that was named, "There're coming to take me away'.

I remember that they use to send two men in white coats to take a person away who had mental illness. Where did they get taken to???

Jesus healed someone who was very insane.

BF

[Mari]

They recognized the problem and called it different names:

History of PTSD in Veterans: Civil War to DSM-5 - PTSD: National Center for PTSD


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[mymorgy]

when I had my explosion in 1979 nobody mentioned it

[OhKay]

Thank you for the article, Mari. It was really interesting.

I worked at a VA hospital for a short period of time. One of the patients was a former POW in WWII and had dementia. I remember he barricaded himself in a room one morning because he thought he was back in the war. He was a nice man. It was very sad.

[OhKay]

Originally Posted by mymorgy

when I had my explosion in 1979 nobody mentioned it

I'm sorry Bobby