The Mental Strains of a Changing World

from Frequent Sees · host Matt Mercille

How did Americans squeeze their budgets to get a car in almost every driveway? Did the industrial boom that filled factories also help fill the mental asylums we never really learned about in school? And is the “sudden rise” in autism really a rise, or are we finally putting names to conditions that people in those earlier generations were quietly self‑medicating or getting locked up for all along?

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