33 Historical Figures Who Would Probably Be Diagnosed With Something Today
‘Dostoevsky. No way on earth he was sane’
Until very recently, psychiatric help had a serious stigma associated with it. Back a bit further, it was probably a creepy asylum whose idea of treatment involved ice picks and electro-shocks. Really wind back the clock, and, well, you were just “possessed by the devil.”
Given most people’s natural inclination to avoid ending up on a pyre, it’s not surprising that psychiatric diagnoses of figures of the past aren’t commonly part of the public record. From simple stories of their life, though, you can definitely get a hunch that something is going on up there with some historical figures.
Redditors got together and gave their suggestions of long-gone but well-known folk who likely had a mental illness in retrospect.
