Load of bullshit. Let's not romanticise mental illness.
You now have a generation of people who think it is cool to be mentally ill.
You now have a generation of people who think it is cool to be mentally ill.
Serial killers get fan mail, that’s true now and it was true 100 years ago.
Psychoanalysis while mostly quackery is ~135 years old providing an example where talking was considered a viable therapy not just locking people up or tossing out lobotomies left and right to anyone slightly abnormal.
So sure, 100 years ago there was quackery just as today, but “possessed by demons” wasn’t considered mainstream back then any more than it is today.
blog post is good