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When people conflate ignorance from ignorant people in the general public with clinical reality.

“We didn’t call ’em panic attacks back-in the ’90s.” Yes, we did. Officially, medically. Maybe not at the pub on a drunken Friday night, builders’ assemble or on the playground.

“Well, we didn’t call it bipolar in my day.” No. We called it manic-depressive illness and before that (before your grandparents were born) circular insanity. And so-on. People have been observing and writing about it since the beginning of time. There’s nothing new about mental health.