Depression: The Causes and Effects of Depression health and the ongoing and sometimes ingenious struggles that people wage. have done to find effective ways to treat this disease. "... declared (RASHMI NEMADE, 2007). Depression was once called “melancholy.” It was in ancient Mesopotamian texts from the second millennium BC. This place was “an ancient region of the eastern Mediterranean bounded to the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and to the southeast by the Arabian plateau, corresponding essentially to present-day Iraq, but also to parts of Iraq ". Iran, Syria and Turkey today. (Mark, 2009) Regardless, at that time, mental illnesses were attributed to being possessed by demons (which I unfortunately find to be quite accurate.) Apparently the "first historical understanding of depression was therefore that depression was a spiritual (or mental) illness. rather than physical. (RASHMI NEMADE, 2007) Long story short, over time, ancient Greek and Roman literature has had many demonic references when it comes to mental illnesses. “In the 5th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote about a king driven mad by evil spirits.” (RASHMI NEMADE, 2007) The Chinese, Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations all opted for demonic possession, but used exorcism techniques such as beatings, restraint and exorcism.

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