Jump to content



Photo

Origin of the word "lunatic"


  • Please log in to reply
1 reply to this topic

#1 stocks

stocks

    Member

  • Traders-Talk User
  • 4,550 posts

Posted 21 February 2018 - 04:42 PM

By the fourth and fifth centuries astrologers were commonly using the term to refer to neurological and psychiatric diseases.[3] 

 

Philosophers such as Aristotle and Pliny the Elder argued that the full moon induced insane individuals with bipolar disorder by providing light during nights which would otherwise have been dark, and affecting susceptible individuals through the well-known route of sleep deprivation.[4]

 

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic


-- -
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change, 
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
 

#2 diogenes227

diogenes227

    Member

  • TT Patron+
  • 5,120 posts

Posted 22 February 2018 - 10:36 AM

By the fourth and fifth centuries astrologers were commonly using the term to refer to neurological and psychiatric diseases.[3] 

 

Philosophers such as Aristotle and Pliny the Elder argued that the full moon induced insane individuals with bipolar disorder by providing light during nights which would otherwise have been dark, and affecting susceptible individuals through the well-known route of sleep deprivation.[4]

 

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunatic

 

What a hoot?

 

Are you confessing to having bipolar disorder?


"If you've heard this story before, don't stop me because I'd like to hear it again," Groucho Marx (on market history?).

“I've learned in options trading simple is best and the obvious is often the most elusive to recognize.”

 

"The god of trading rewards persistence, experience and discipline, and absolutely nothing else."