Was this thread inspired by our discussion ambar?
My mom has some anxiety disorder, but she only needs to take medication during one of her rare panic attacks (complete clean freak though).
On the other hand a variety of physical diseases run in my family, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack (dad, both grandfathers, and most great uncles had heart attacks early in life, aka 40s-50s). Fun, you can be assured.
While I think all those factors are at least partially to blame, it stands to reason that we are able to better recognize, catagorize, and treat varieties of mental illness in the quest for better quality of life. I doubt anyone knew what an aortic dissection was at the start of the 20th century, when modern medicine had just started to come into being. Similarly its possible treatement of psychological illness is just now becoming as well developed.
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