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Interesting thought, there were no mental health issues in rural areas, when you need to get up early and do some work in the field to feed your family. Mental issues are product of this newer way of life. Not sure why, but guessing we are getting farther from the nature we were evolved and our mind can't keep up. Not talking about clinical mental issues caused by genetics, simple depression, anxiety and those new/modern illness.
so nobody in a rural town was ever ‘slow’, ‘different’, or ‘blessed’, right?
I did say I'm not talking about genetic diseases, I clearly said depression, anxiety and similar modern illness. Depression is not being 'slow' or 'different', it is not be able to meet expectations you think others have from you, Anxiety is fear of future, those are illness induced by fear.
Lol tell me you’ve never read The Grapes of Wrath without telling me you’ve never read The Grapes of Wrath
Yup, depression never existed in pastoral settings.
Anything else you think needed a casual erasure while we're at it?
No, I actually lived in village and I know how life looks there
Dude, I grew up in a rural area, people living there are the ones that need more awareness of mental health issues. Just because someone isn't diagnosed and under proper treatment doesn't mean they aren't ill.
Do you know how common suicide is among farmers??
https://lemmy.ml/post/8396501
maybe because govs are trying to destroy them? I think that is another issue