did people have schizophrania back in ancient times?
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Yes ..  they just called them Mad people... \n\nIts only with our medical science looking into different diseases do we call them different names.
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It doesn't sound like schizophrenia to me.  Sounds like a personality trait that might have been helped by her stress of growing up with an unreliable and unsupportive father (because of his illness).
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>>>>are they really the missing link?\n\nNo, and nobody but Christians have claimed that they were for almost 100 years. Scientists know that Neanderthals  and modern humans shared a very recent common ancestor. They were a sister species to our own. They were not ancestral to modern humans.\n\n\n>>>>did they suffer from rickets? Why or why not?\n\nSome of them certainly did suffer from rickets. Before the invention of modern medicine it was normal for a high proportion of people in Northern Europe to suffer from rickets and Neanderthals were not immune.\n\nRickets is a disease of the bones caused by a vitamin deficiency. That vitamin can be manufactured by the body if it has enough sunlight, but in cold climates people wrap themselves up in clothing for months on end and never get any sun exposure. The result is rickets. Rickets can also be avoided by eating fish oil, but people in areas away from the sea never had access to seafood in winter and so commonly suffered the effects of rickets.\n\n>>>>why were they bent over?\n\nThey weren't in any way bent over. Neanderthals walked as upright as you or I. Even the common ancestor of us and the Neanderthals walked perfectly upright. You need to go at least as far back as Homo habilis before humans walked with even a slightly stooped posture.\n\nThe belief that Neanderthals walked with a stooped posture was the result of insufficient data. Nobody but Christian fundamentalists has believed it for the last 60 years\n\nOne of the first Neanderthal skeletons found, dubbed "The Old Man of la Chapel le" was one of those individuals who suffered form rickets, and in the form he had it caused bow legs and a stooped posture. Because it was the only Neanderthal skeleton available it was assumed that all Neanderthals looked like that. Since then hundreds of other Neanderthal skeleton form perfectly healthy individuals have been found. Most were in no way stooped.\n\n>>>What diseases may they have sufered from?\n\nWell, rickets, obviously.\n\nAnother Neanderthal skeleton showed severe signs of a disease called herpevitaminosis A. That is caused by eating the livers of carnivores like bears and dogs and causes the skin to fall off and the bones to grow lumps. Very unpleasant.\n\nNeanderthals also commonly suffered from injuries associated with hunting and broken bones, arthritis and similar stress injuries were common.\n\nAside from those diseases Neanderthals presumably suffered from all the normal Eurasian diseases: influenza, colds, food poisoning, typhoid, giadiarisis and so forth. However such diseases don't leave evidence in bones so we can not know for certain. But Neanderthals were so closely related to us that they probably suffered form most of the same diseases that existed at that time.
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technically yes, but back then the genes weren't all messed up they were pure. So, their kids weren't retarded as they are today!
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Brazilian Indians did it. \n\nEuropeans had dicover it at end of XIX century then Brazil still with monoply until English take it to Malasia (South Asia) and then broke the monoply (period between 1890-1920)
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TThe short answer: the irrational idea springing from the limbic system of all human brains...comes from our cave man days and shows up as irrational worldviews.
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Check this site:\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.activemind.com%2FMysterious%2FTopics%2FAtlantis%2Findex.html
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I have read that in the beginnings there were people believing in things around them in nature as having a shine as a higher being type worship like worshiping fire and trees.  if you check out this site it describes it as being caveman h ad spiritual belief in surroundings of nature but not an ongoing organized religion like that of the first 7,000 years ago in egyptian prime. http://www.matrixbookstore.biz/cavemen.htm
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I dont think there WERE any states in ancient times
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in ancient times people worked hard and their diets were poor so their nails broke long before they had time to shape them,
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Persecution complex, you are thinking of the term "paranoia." \n\nExcessively living in the past could be either obsessive/compulsive or depression.
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About 15,000 years ago.
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Ancient Behaviors Hard-Wired in Human Brain\n\nBy Robert Roy Britt\nLiveScience Senior Writer\n6 March 2005\n\nDon't blame your lame smile or lack of an intimidating frown on your upbringing, a new study suggests. Such behaviors may be hard-wired in your brain.\n\nScientists know many behaviors of lower organisms are innate. Ants instinctively follow other ants to a picnic basket. Birds operate largely on autopilot, dogs less so.\n\nIn people and monkeys, however, behavior is largely something learned, so researchers have assumed our hard-wiring is limited. If that's true, however, why do many reactions, such as aggression, play out the same among diverse populations around the world?\n\nScientists announced Tuesday they can elicit complex behaviors by stimulating specific areas in the brain of a small primate called the bush baby. Similar studies have been done on other primates.\n\n"We have now seen this feature in the brain of an Old World monkey and New World prosimian," said study leader Jon Kaas of Vanderbilt University. "The fact that it appears in the brains of two such divergent primates suggests that this form of organization evolved very early in the development of primates. That, in turn, suggests that it is characteristic of all primate brains, including the human brain."\n\nThe triggered behaviors include aggressive facial gestures, defensive arm movements, putting hand to mouth and other reaching and grasping movements -- all survival skills.\n\n"These results explain why certain behaviors – such as defensive and aggressive movements, smiling and grasping food – are so similar around the world," Kaas said. "It is because the instructions for these movements are built-in and not learned."\n\nThe results are detailed in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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God was a schizophrenic
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Probably as soon as we started the rites for people that died.  Life back then probably seemed rather random and capricious.  There wasn't much that was known about the world, so people clung to things like ancestor worship and sun worship to try to gain some control over the randomness of life.
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Probably some myan, aztec or chinese city. Incidentally, there was some neandorthal men willing to play doctor on some neandrothral women even earlier than that.
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May be, it depends how well we correlate our history with mythology. But in some ancient civilizations like India, Greece u indeed find many similarities.