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    1 year ago

    It feels like perhaps in pre industrial societies this was more inherently accepted even if poorly understood and often misattributed/mistreated with religious or spiritual interpretations. But if your heart hurt or you felt a dark cloud over your life at least people kind of accepted and knew this was a thing and that you needed some kind of care (even if it involved witchcraft) rather than expecting you to chin up all the time and that it was all a figment of your imagination…