The Beginning of Normalizing Mental Illness

"we just want to get married"

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What do you consider to be the first widespread instance of mental illness being normalized in the name of understanding and acceptance?

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Vigorous religious zealotry

Note: before people freak out, while this may apply to your religion today, the first instance was almost assuredly from a religion that isn't around today

As opposed to all out debauchery? Got it.

Zoroastrianism is the worlds oldest monotheistic religion

I thought the 90’s grunge era with a bunch of miserable, dirty, loser heroin addict frontmen was a pretty massive step in making the cultural direction we’re currently in more mainstream. Maybe it wasn’t one event, but I think it was a major shift from kids wanting to be cool in some capacity to wanting to fit in by imitating a bunch of guys who were filthy, burned out, miserable anti-establishment hippies and died at 30 years old from either suicide or heroin overdose

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I thought the 90’s grunge era with a bunch of miserable, dirty, loser heroin addict frontmen was a pretty massive step in making the cultural direction we’re currently in more mainstream. Maybe it wasn’t one event, but I think it was a major shift from kids wanting to be cool in some capacity to wanting to fit in by imitating a bunch of guys who were filthy, burned out, miserable anti-establishment hippies and died at 30 years old from either suicide or heroin overdose

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Have you never heard of Hippies?

Oh, and those are boomers and Gen X, 2 of the most conservative voting populations today

Baptist is the oldest Christian denomination


Jesus became a baptist when John the Baptist baptized him into the baptist faith

The rise of professional politicians in this country?