No.311817
You must distance yourself from the miserable. This is common sense. Every culture in history has some variation on the wisdom. Some people raise you higher, some people drag you down. Pursue connection with the former and distance yourself from the latter. Winners stick with winners, losers just stick to your shoes like dogshit.
No.311820
Reading back in old societies, the tendency for the depressed to snap and kill people tended to be a lot higher. Running amok, spree killing, was common.
The eskimos had no time for mental illness, at the first signs of it they'd smash your head in and throw you into the sea. I suppose it makes sense, because someone smashing apart the igloo or snow hut late at night would kill off everyone.