Mental Illness
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The name The name of my book is by Gilda Berger. is a disorder characterized by disturbances in a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behavior. The term can refer to a wide variety of disorders, ranging from those that cause mild distress to those that severely impair a person’s ability to func ....
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.... of the belief that evil spirits or demons controlled the mentally ill. Not only the Greeks believed in the evil spirit theory, writings from the early Babylonian, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations have also shown evidence that was believed to be a possession by demons-using beatings, restraint, and starvation to try to drive out the evil spirits.
These beliefs somewhat cooled down as time continued to move on, but once again popped up as America was starting to be formed. In 1692 and 1 ....
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