In the cult I was raised in, mental illness is higher than in the general population. There are various reasons for this. The cult predates and strives on the desperate and gullible and those tend to more easily be recruited when in crisis. Those with low education and lacking critical thinking skills are more easily manipulated and captured. It's difficult to leave the cult, they put barriers like intimidation and shunning, manipulating you with your family members in it, etc.
There is constant obsession with Satan and demons and fear mongering to segregate you from the world. Fidels tend to consult the pastors/elders before health services or the law, it's that pervasive. The idoctrination is also designed so one dedicates as much as possible their life to the cult. You're not supposed to have friends outside of it. Higher education is discouraged. Even social activities outside of specific ones are frowned upon. Voting, celebrating birth anniversaries, Christmas or Halloween is fobidden.
The media, books, films, games are demonized, so is any religious propaganda other than the cult's. So is an untainted course of biology, they're day-age creationists. Their litterature is a constant flow of unhealthy judgmental guilt tripping nonsense, mind pollution. The Governing Body claims to be "God's channel on Earth", similarly to this "prophet Anna" crackpot here. They're notorious for failed prophecies, high control, protecting sex predators, etc.
Believing that illness is due to demons is simply ignorance. This prevents addressing actual problems with proper medicine, it also tends to blame people instead of helping them. Toxic bullshit.
Token Atheist: I'm glad that you're doing better. I too used to believe in demons. While I consulted a psychologist for other reasons later in life, I fortunately didn't need medication, but as a kid I had a few panic attacks that I attributed to demons, because of the superstitious cult I was raised in. They believe in object demon possession and my family obsessed about a certain second hand lamp that was given to us, because of a dream my dad had about his mom (they soon trashed the lamp)... Apparently my panic attacks and chest pains were due to strong valerian tea, a fad my mom believed in and served before bed at some point. Some people claim that it calms them, but for some it's also an anxiety trigger and I also had sudden throbbing chest pain. After a few nights of sleep deprivation and still going to school in the day, it was getting worse. Stopping the tea immediately helped.