SailorWriter
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Since we have mental illness before therapy, it would be stupid to do nothing with it and just let it eat you up mentally. How did people (specifically Christians) dealt with mental issues before the modern therapy?
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Since we have mental illness before therapy, it would be stupid to do nothing with it and just let it eat you up mentally. How did people (specifically Christians) dealt with mental issues before the modern therapy?
To your Q, a simplistic answer might be, Suffer. I’m sure many did (think William Cowper), and for many Christians fellowship and devotion might have often ‘worked’. As White said, depression (and depressive illness) can have different causes thus different cures. By over relying on secular (ie common) psychiatry, probably many suffer who otherwise would find release and relief via the sacred, even through basic theism. And within victim mentality and general subjectivism, there is more underlying meaninglessness in western society and thus generated depression. But had they had it, many Christians would have been helped by the skills of psychiatry, even as they would have been had they had anesthetics and surgery hygiene.
Society did not know what to do with the seriously deranged.How did people (specifically Christians) dealt with mental issues before the modern therapy?
So, in a sense, our modern therapy means nothing because we as a society have an underlying issue beneath our soul; and since psychology is based on a Greek word "psyche", which means soul in English. Without the belief of God, and the secularization of nations, people will be depressed in a spiritual sense.