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Update: Figuring out the plague mask thing actually helped my anxiety
I got super into the mystery behind those creepy plague doctor masks for a project. Reading how they used herbs in the beak to fight 'bad air' made my own worries feel smaller, lol. Anyone have a history mystery that helped their mental health?
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raymitchell6mo ago
That's a cool way to find some perspective. It's wild how people in the past tackled huge, scary problems with the limited tools they had. Did digging into that specific time period make your own "bad air" moments, like doomscrolling or social stress, feel more manageable in comparison? Like you're facing a different kind of mystery but with way better info.
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noah_brown6mo ago
Ngl it kinda had the opposite effect for me. Seeing how hard they had it just made our own stress feel more silly and pointless, not smaller. We have all the answers and still feel just as lost.
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evan_cooper6mo ago
Reading about the lavender and mint in those beaks made my own coping method of eating cereal at 3am look pretty weak, honestly.
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