Seems skeptical, at best, if the psychosis is even real and not just a retroactive diagnosis based on third hand story telling. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
No, the indigenous people who created the “mythical creature” say that they mean it literally to describe a real thing and that thing is the psychosis. The modern diagnosis comes from their description of the psychosis.
Seems skeptical, at best, if the psychosis is even real and not just a retroactive diagnosis based on third hand story telling.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
Either way the mythical creature came first.
No, the indigenous people who created the “mythical creature” say that they mean it literally to describe a real thing and that thing is the psychosis. The modern diagnosis comes from their description of the psychosis.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Fiddler