How did the ancients treat mental illness?

The ancients also believed that there were psychological diseases, such as "lovesickness" psychological disorder, "bow snake phobia" and "Fan Jinzhong residence" stress disorder. These are all mental diseases that ancient people once faced and handled well.

Acacia-induced depression is a common psychological disease in ancient people.

In ancient poems, we can also feel the existence of this kind of mental illness: "I don't see you for a day, like Sanqiu Xi", "I can't see you when I meet you", "After leaving, I lost face, half thinking about Lang and half hating Lang", "I am haggard for Iraq" and …

By analyzing these poems, we can find that psychologically, the characters will have a relatively continuous psychological fluctuation and have a long-term yearning. It also has an impact on physiology: loss of appetite, thinning and so on. It also brings side effects to my life and makes me unable to live a normal life. I just miss him/her all day.

How did the ancients treat this situation?

Acacia, of course, must be solved by meeting each other.

Some mountains and rivers climb mountains and wading to meet each other; Some are married and take their children on a journey. ...

Of course, there are also some people who meet and hate each other late and can't solve the pain of lovesickness. In the end, Iraqis became haggard and injured. ...

There are also some psychology of "once bitten, twice shy".

There was an ancient man named Le Guang. He invited his friends to drink. After his friend came, he saw the shadow of a snake in the glass. After drinking it, he felt sick, and he felt sick when he went back.

Later, Yue Guang heard about it and invited him to drink. There is still a snake in the glass. Yue Guang asked his friend to look up. It turns out that the so-called "snake shadow" is just the shadow of the bow and arrow on the wall reflected in the glass.

After drinking that kind of wine, my friend no longer felt sick, but felt comfortable all over.

The ancients who were "afraid of well ropes" had more serious psychological problems, from being afraid of "snakes" to being afraid of everything like snakes.

But the ancients also had the same treatment. Using "fake snakes" as stimulants to stimulate people who are afraid of snakes, let him discover again and again, it turned out to be just a false alarm. The adaptation to real snakes is to kill and let the worried people know that snakes are controlled and harmless.

There is also a stress disorder between great sadness and great joy.

Like "Fan Jinzhong Residence" in our textbook, older candidates have been admitted to "Peking University" for many years, and the whole person is crazy.

The ancient treatment method is to find corresponding stimuli, such as the person who is afraid of the examinee. When he is scared, his crazy mind instantly returns to normal. Then tell the truth slowly.

Therefore, the ancients also had mental illness, and these diseases also had corresponding treatment methods, but just like modern psychological counseling, different people had different treatment schemes, and the ancients also treated different people.