Reflection

        Yesterday I read an article about how the amount of people having depression has increased over the course of 30 years. It made me think of how people with depression could handle it back then, when the social awerness about this disease was at a very low level. These days you can easly get help and you won't be excluded from the society if you claim that you have depression, but back then people weren't aware of this problem and most of times considered persons with some depressive tendencies as weirdos, losers or even sluggards. Also getting help wasn't very easy if it even was possible and usually (at least in Poland) the methods of curing it would propably be pretty rough with no understanding and tolerance at all. I am wondering if there were more suicides because of that, or maybe there was actually more of examples in which somebody has just self-healed, because they kind of had no other choice.

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  1. englishdiary17 października 2018 12:10

    As you observed in your first sentence, the number of people suffering from depression wasn't so high then. I don't remember a single case in my high school days, neither among my schoolmates, nor among adults I knew back then. Maybe people just tried to cope with their sadness.

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  2. Wiktor (MondayZi) Brodowski4 listopada 2018 06:43

    If nobody cared about the depressed, then probably nobody cared about the number of suicides either. Even if there were many more than today, it would have been harder to track them, so they probably went unnoticed. Especially if people wouldn't speak of their mental issues with anyone.

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