less stress? and when they did have any "mental ailments" it was a hole in the head to free the evil spirits...how do you know the mental health of ancient peoples? Not even archeologists know that...only the skulls they've found with holes cracked in the skull. All the instances of "hearing the spirits and gods" how do we know that it was actually spiritual and not a form of schizophrenia...psychology only came into being with the freudian era of the mind.