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Typo posted:That's like saying uncivilized peoples don't get diabetes because they don't have the means of diagnosing it. Diabetes is probably a bad example since diseases like hypertension and DM2 are strongly linked to culture. Type 2 diabetes is pretty much unheard of in tribal cultures. Type 1 diabetes is a different story and almost certainly predates civilization. And there does seem to be certain mental illness that increase when people industrialize (depression) or some that simply don't exist (Anorexia Nervosa). Of course we still have things like Schizophrenia which seems to affect everyone and a whole list of Culture Bound Syndromes that may only exist in these small cultures. I do feel bad for these isolated groups that don't have access to modern medicine. However as pretty much everyone has said we are really poo poo at trying to civilize then.
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silence_kit posted:Probably a lot of mental illnesses are first world problems. People in indigenous tribes have more serious problems and don't have the luxury of developing something like anorexia when food may be scarce for them. As I said before Anorexia Nervosa seems to be a Western Culture-Bound Syndrome. Non-western societies have their own Culture-Bound Syndromes that we don't see in the west.
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