What Happened to Mental Illness Before Modern Medicine?

How did ancient humans treat mental illness before modern medicine? From drilled skulls to asylum horrors, this is the 10,000-year history of psychiatry. 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into human history:    / @zantros   Somewhere in your city tonight, someone is hearing a voice that isn't there. For most of human history, that person wasn't taken to a hospital — they were taken to a fire, a temple, or a drill. This video traces 10,000 years of how humans have responded to mental illness: skulls drilled open in the Neolithic era, Babylonian "hand of a god" exorcisms, Hippocrates' radical break from the gods, the quiet 700-year-old town of Geel that treated patients with dignity instead of chains, the witch trials of medieval Europe, the horrors of Bedlam, and the moment Philippe Pinel literally unlocked the chains in 1793. You'll see how the instinct to fear what you don't understand never disappeared — it just changed shape. If this gave you a new way to see something you've always lived alongside without noticing, leave a like, drop a comment, and subscribe! #MentalHealthHistory #HistoryOfMedicine #Psychology #EducationalAnimation