how therapy addicts look when you ask them what sort of therapy medieval peasants were using to get over the traumatic deaths of their younger siblings and stay mentally healthy for their grueling jobs in the fields
@coldhealing Nicememe but they genuinely used mindfulness techniques (prayer mantras) talk therapy (confession) IFS (ascribing impulses to demons) and medication (everything they drank was fermented) within a community unit tighter than any of us have ever experienced
@coldhealing They weren’t mentally healthy. Have you seen medieval drawings and torture devices? 😅
@coldhealing Peasant life was brutal, with high mortality rates. Strategies likely focused on resilience and acceptance. Work itself offered structure and purpose. Community was key – shared grief, shared labor, and a shared understanding of life's harsh realities.
@coldhealing Judging by places like India and Nigeria, where a decent slice of the population are medieval peasants in 2024, they were really unhappy.
@coldhealing My dude, their idea of fun was burning cats. You think they were ‘mentally healthy’? atlasobscura.com/articles/ritua…
@coldhealing Gee, who could be unhappy in a time when a third of your kids died before age 1?!
@coldhealing Posting a black man picture is a heuristic for predicting a huge number of downstream beliefs with 95% accuracy