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by bluedevil2k 2149 days ago
> Mental disorders are at an all-time high

Please provide some references that show mental illness is higher now than during the Dark Ages. Or in Egypt among the slaves under the Ptolemy's.

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Infinitely more people are being diagnosed now than in the dark ages
That’s probably the underpinning of his correct argument that we have zero clue and no leg to stand on to claim that modernity has more mental illness than any other, much less every other, period in history
That was the joke. ;)