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There was no mental illness in the good old days. Just alcoholism. A lot of alcoholism. Those things of course have nothing to do with each other.
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And nicotine. If you didn’t smoke yourself, you still got it secondhand. Most of the post-WWII era in America had everyone at least mildly on a psychoactive substance 24/7.
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Yup. Tobacco, alcohol, and meth advertised directly to housewives. Yanno, good ol’ wholesome Americana.
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90% of diagnosed schizophrenics smoke cigarettes. I don’t think they’ve found the mechanism but something in the tobacco helps manage their symptoms.
