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500
Discovery of mental illnesses
Mental illnesses were thought to reflect socery or witchcraft -
Jan 1, 700
insane asylums built
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Jan 1, 705
first pyschiatric hospital ward
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Jan 1, 1247
Bethlehem Hospital opens in London to house ‘distraught and lunatik people
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First actual mental asylum opened in america
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Quakers in Philadelphia open the first asylum in America based on the principles of moral treatment
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Stress became linked to mental illnesses
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Cognitive Thearapy was used
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treatments
Benzodiazepines gained widespread use for anxiety and depression, until dependency problems curtailed their popularity -
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy began
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The most recent and updated deffiniton of depression was made
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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