Tag Psychology

Some depressing imagery

Maria Popova describes depression, “It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension. Gradually, surreptitiously, the noise swells to a bellowing bass line, until it drowns out the symphony of life.…

Dancing Plague of 1374

In 1374 a dancing mania swept over the German city of Aachen. In 1888, historian Justus Hecker describes the symptoms:They formed circles hand in hand, and appearing to have lost all control over their senses, continued dancing, regardless of the…