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we actually did a lot of it on the sociology course
I'll keep it short
>people on the past didn't have methods to cope
>we now have methods to cope
>we live under much more stress as your average wagie has to work more than a feudal peasant for a lesser profit
>a pattern was observed that people in the past only got hints of being a genuine mental illness
>but regardless diesease is a social construct and in time of cavepeople there was no such thing as arthritis as being a little bitch for pain in joints got you dead
it makes sense when you think that even viral infections are total social constructs as some people that aren't inflicted by the plague can still spread it, some people that are inflicted can't spread it as all new copies of viri they produce are defective and mutated beyond help and some people can kill the virus on sight by being injected with weaker virus months prior, golly