“[Wellness alternatives] offer cures much in the way ancient medicine did — through miraculous healing and fervent testimony in the shape of customer reviews,” writes author minaseckin.
In 1085 AD, a Lombard princess named Sichelgaita ripped up her cheeks with her nails and tore out her hair while delivering a eulogy for her husband, who was still alive. Apparently, Princess Sichelgaita’s actions were no cause for alarm among those who witnessed them.
How do we treat our melancholy today? Surprisingly, not all that differently. Even with psychiatry and therapy at its least taboo, we still use similar tools and language as the ancients to understand and balance mood disturbance. As Noga Arikha writes in her deeply researched bookthe ancient treatment for melancholy included “exercise, moist foods, massages, baths, music, poetry, exemplary tales from the lives of sages, and sexual distraction.
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