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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.
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.
Oh, so that's why people seem to remember the 50s fondly...
Yup. Tobacco, alcohol, and meth advertised directly to housewives. Yanno, good ol' wholesome Americana.
How hard is it to read the article you posted? They didn't sell methamphetamine to housewives, it was amphetamine. That is a VERY big difference
As a woman with crippling ADHD, I can't imagine the horror of trying the new wonder drug, discovering it helped me keep the house and avoid being beaten, and then eventually having to go back to doing without...
Yea, the ones selling methamphetamine to housewives were the Nazis in the '40s.
No, that's probably because of the Hayes Code, which limited the sorts of things you could show on TV. People don't remember the real 1950s, just the film and TV of it.
Nicotine use papered over so many things.
90% of diagnosed schizophrenics smoke cigarettes. I don't think they've found the mechanism but something in the tobacco helps manage their symptoms.
Wow TIL - that's wild! Nicotine just instantly scratches the "good job!" portion of your brain. Makes sense that folks with an imbalance in brain chemistry want some happy drugs to fix it. There's also the chance that nicotine could worsen or cause schizophrenia in some way!
https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-smoking-the-link