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Mental Illnesses

By Courtney_Schmitt
  • 500

    Discovery of mental illnesses

    Mental illnesses were thought to reflect socery or witchcraft
  • Jan 1, 700

    insane asylums built

  • Jan 1, 705

    first pyschiatric hospital ward

  • Jan 1, 1247

    Bethlehem Hospital opens in London to house ‘distraught and lunatik people

  • First actual mental asylum opened in america

  • Quakers in Philadelphia open the first asylum in America based on the principles of moral treatment

  • Stress became linked to mental illnesses

  • Cognitive Thearapy was used

  • treatments

    Benzodiazepines gained widespread use for anxiety and depression, until dependency problems curtailed their popularity

  • Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy began

  • The most recent and updated deffiniton of depression was made

  • Congress passes the Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act. It requires that any limits to insurance coverage for mental illness be no more restrictive than those for physical health issues

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