The ancient Greeks believed depression was a result of fluid imbalances of blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile. Meanwhile, early Christianity just threw the blame of the devil for man’s suffering, which resulted from their internal battle to fight the temptations of sin. Finally, Renaissance rolled around and scholars, such as Robert Burton, began to recognize the depression as a disease, but since then, attitudes and misconceptions have changed throughout history until we reached modern times when we came to understand there’s something far more complicated than a simple chemical imbalance behind this darkening disorder.
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