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Do we know if/how some of these conditions were just accepted and dealt with in non western capitalist societies?
For examine Anxiety, which I have, probably does contribute positively to survival, but it doesn’t fit well with corporate work situations or school.
People have coped with various difficult conditions in multiple ways throughout the history, mainly because they did not have any better choice. Even suggesting their suffering is natural and shouldn't be treated is pretty cruel.
Anxiety, hypervigilance, hypersensitivity to social cues would have been very helpful in intelligent social creatures not yet at the top of the food chain. Similar arguments could even be made for schizophrenia, which presents differently and generally more positively in preindustrial societies, perhaps serving as an inspiring "shaman" like creator of cultural understanding of the world. Depression might be a way of preserving energy under periods of stress, etc.