i think that schizophrenic people can see demons and they just think that it is a mental disorder. i don't think thta has anything to with this subject but yeah, it oculd help??; i don't know
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Actually, the schizophrenics are the ones who have trouble recognizing it as a mental disorder. That's why it is so hard to keep them on their meds.
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Scientists have shown differences in brain activity in those effected by schizophrenia. That, and the fact that the right meds can control a lot of schizophrenics, pretty much put the lid on the demon idea.
The 2nd half of this post is gibberish.
Nah fool!
Bloodletting is for an imbalance of the vital humors. These people aren't phlegmatic or choleric, they're possessed!
Demons require trephination!
Hand me the skull drill. No, the BIG skull drill!
Luvnoswin2sayno does have a point, but he's seemingly dyslexic, so he got it backwards. The REAL problem is that it's often hard to distinguish between schizophrenia and religion. It's awkward; the symptoms are very similar, but the required treatments are different. Schizophrenic patients can be cured by medications, and religious patients can likely be cured by education. Sadly, schizophrenic patients may be misdiagnosed as religious, and religious patients are rarely if ever treated. As we know, if one person believes in fairies, it's a mental illness. If 10,000 people believe it, it's a cult. If 1,000,000 people believe it, it's a religion.
so when given the options that either the mentally sick are mentally sick, or that they can better see supernatural agents from hell... You choose the latter as more likely. See, this is why you're stupid.
What isn't caused by demons to these people? Epilepsy means "to be seized by devils" because that's what the ancients believed. Is depression or bipolar caused by demons, or should they just "snap out of it?" What about stroke or Parkinson's? I can't begin to think of the huge number of physical and mental illnesses that affect the human brain, that you attribute to demons in your 12th Century thinking.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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