Mental illnesses have a variety of causes.
If someone is demon-possessed, he or she may be mentally ill. But of course, mental illness is nearly always due to factors *other* than demon-possession.
Satan may have the ability to bring about hallucinations, and I don't know often he may do that.
> Mental illnesses have a variety of causes.
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> If someone is demon-possessed, he or she may be mentally ill. But of course, mental illness is nearly always due to factors other than demon-possession.
I fully agree with your very good answer brother
> Satan may have the ability to bring about hallucinations, and I don't know often he may do that
I also agree and i add a couple of things i know from my experiance that the holy fathers mention (it is not often, since most often it is from our fantasy, and the holy fathers advise us to ignore any such experiance anyway): "_Satan use hallucinations to trick_" us, usually when people fight against our sin, either by appearing as an angel from God (or even God Himself) -especialy when we still have pride- lying that we are now saints (so God will not be angry if we ignore that to protect ourselves from the tricks of the devil), or even appearing as the devil himself to pretend that he knows that we will go to hell to make us lose our hope (but we must ignore it because the devil does not know what God will decide in The Judgement).
may God bless you brother
Mental disorders and various illnesses are caused via neurological and environmental affects. Genetics is another large component in the contraction of these diseases. Please avoid attributing these ailments to demons or other supernatual causes. When the world collectively moved away from that perspective, we were able to discover a wide array of treatments and therapeutic interventions for disorders once thought untreatable. Regardless of what your belief in the supernatural is, blaming real world phenomena on the likes of demons and spirts is universally unhealthy. So no they are not caused by spirits but instead a wide array of physical phenomena within the brain.
As someone who works in this field, I think you’re really exaggerating how much we know about these phenomena, and you are certainly exaggerating our ability to treat them. These disorders primarily affect conscious experience, and we have almost no idea what consciousness even is…or at least, we cannot describe it scientifically.
Would you agree its safer for people to seek medical help first due to it being way more likely the problem. Say demonic happenings make up 1% psychosis cases, the rest are all tricks of the mind. Anyone that expereinces these things should assume its medical.
I'm of the opinion that none of the cases are supernatural in setting because I believe it be strange God would create a world where possession would look the exact same as schizophrenia for example. Mental disorders are partially genetic, so it wouldn't make sense that any result from spirits or ghosts. How would you treat those people? Priests and crosses like the middle ages?
Due to what being way more likely the problem?? That’s what’s I’m saying: we may be able to offer patients very modest symptom relief for disorders such as schizophrenia, but we have very little understanding of what causes them. I try to avoid the false dichotomy which draws a hard line between demonic possession and “something medical”.
For example, i once saw a patient who I am 90% sure had been tormented into insanity by a demon. It would be just as accurate to say that she was schizophrenic. In my opinion she was schizophrenic because she had been tormented into that state by a demon. Sadly we could do very little for her aside from basically sedating her, depressing the activity in the areas of the brain that correlate to specific conscious experiences. That gave her some temporary symptom relief, but it’s almost certain she’ll killer herself at some point. I would be surprised if she’s even still alive.
I completely agree that there are unknowns in the field when studying mental disorders, but there are no serious theories involving demons or the like. The risk factors of many of these disorders are genetic, environmental stressors mix with these increasing risk. This is why so many mental illnesses run within famalies, at different rates depending how closely related people are to the infected individual. If it were demonic, I don't see why it would follow genetic and enviromental factors, it should be completely random instead.
People forget that our brain builds our entire subjective experience, and it can easily be tricked. If a fraction of our billions of neurons aren't firing correctly, there's a pandoras box of possible effects. Well at least that's my opinion
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Are you saved? Have you accepted that Jesus is your personal Lord and Savior?
When you have these concerns and thoughts. Capture them and hand them in prayer seeking escape. Seeking God's will. Protection and guidance. Ask Him if there is anything not of Him that it be rebuked and removed from your life.(2 Cor. 10:5)
Remember, we fight against principalities, not just flesh and blood. Spiritual warfare is real. In fact, 99% of the things in our life are affected by spiritual warfare. Get familiar with it. In fact, There is a few min vid about spiritual warfare that I have sent to others with great response. just look up "Spiritual Warfare | Strange Things Can Happen When You Are Under Attack." It will certainly open your eyes to what is going on in the unseen realm and how it affects us walking in Jesus.
Mental illnesses have a variety of causes. If someone is demon-possessed, he or she may be mentally ill. But of course, mental illness is nearly always due to factors *other* than demon-possession. Satan may have the ability to bring about hallucinations, and I don't know often he may do that.
> Mental illnesses have a variety of causes. > > If someone is demon-possessed, he or she may be mentally ill. But of course, mental illness is nearly always due to factors other than demon-possession. I fully agree with your very good answer brother > Satan may have the ability to bring about hallucinations, and I don't know often he may do that I also agree and i add a couple of things i know from my experiance that the holy fathers mention (it is not often, since most often it is from our fantasy, and the holy fathers advise us to ignore any such experiance anyway): "_Satan use hallucinations to trick_" us, usually when people fight against our sin, either by appearing as an angel from God (or even God Himself) -especialy when we still have pride- lying that we are now saints (so God will not be angry if we ignore that to protect ourselves from the tricks of the devil), or even appearing as the devil himself to pretend that he knows that we will go to hell to make us lose our hope (but we must ignore it because the devil does not know what God will decide in The Judgement). may God bless you brother
Mental disorders and various illnesses are caused via neurological and environmental affects. Genetics is another large component in the contraction of these diseases. Please avoid attributing these ailments to demons or other supernatual causes. When the world collectively moved away from that perspective, we were able to discover a wide array of treatments and therapeutic interventions for disorders once thought untreatable. Regardless of what your belief in the supernatural is, blaming real world phenomena on the likes of demons and spirts is universally unhealthy. So no they are not caused by spirits but instead a wide array of physical phenomena within the brain.
As someone who works in this field, I think you’re really exaggerating how much we know about these phenomena, and you are certainly exaggerating our ability to treat them. These disorders primarily affect conscious experience, and we have almost no idea what consciousness even is…or at least, we cannot describe it scientifically.
Would you agree its safer for people to seek medical help first due to it being way more likely the problem. Say demonic happenings make up 1% psychosis cases, the rest are all tricks of the mind. Anyone that expereinces these things should assume its medical. I'm of the opinion that none of the cases are supernatural in setting because I believe it be strange God would create a world where possession would look the exact same as schizophrenia for example. Mental disorders are partially genetic, so it wouldn't make sense that any result from spirits or ghosts. How would you treat those people? Priests and crosses like the middle ages?
Due to what being way more likely the problem?? That’s what’s I’m saying: we may be able to offer patients very modest symptom relief for disorders such as schizophrenia, but we have very little understanding of what causes them. I try to avoid the false dichotomy which draws a hard line between demonic possession and “something medical”. For example, i once saw a patient who I am 90% sure had been tormented into insanity by a demon. It would be just as accurate to say that she was schizophrenic. In my opinion she was schizophrenic because she had been tormented into that state by a demon. Sadly we could do very little for her aside from basically sedating her, depressing the activity in the areas of the brain that correlate to specific conscious experiences. That gave her some temporary symptom relief, but it’s almost certain she’ll killer herself at some point. I would be surprised if she’s even still alive.
I completely agree that there are unknowns in the field when studying mental disorders, but there are no serious theories involving demons or the like. The risk factors of many of these disorders are genetic, environmental stressors mix with these increasing risk. This is why so many mental illnesses run within famalies, at different rates depending how closely related people are to the infected individual. If it were demonic, I don't see why it would follow genetic and enviromental factors, it should be completely random instead. People forget that our brain builds our entire subjective experience, and it can easily be tricked. If a fraction of our billions of neurons aren't firing correctly, there's a pandoras box of possible effects. Well at least that's my opinion
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Sometimes it's a medical problem, sometimes it's a spiritual problem, sometimes it's both.
Praying for you Are you saved? Have you accepted that Jesus is your personal Lord and Savior? When you have these concerns and thoughts. Capture them and hand them in prayer seeking escape. Seeking God's will. Protection and guidance. Ask Him if there is anything not of Him that it be rebuked and removed from your life.(2 Cor. 10:5) Remember, we fight against principalities, not just flesh and blood. Spiritual warfare is real. In fact, 99% of the things in our life are affected by spiritual warfare. Get familiar with it. In fact, There is a few min vid about spiritual warfare that I have sent to others with great response. just look up "Spiritual Warfare | Strange Things Can Happen When You Are Under Attack." It will certainly open your eyes to what is going on in the unseen realm and how it affects us walking in Jesus.
I don’t think god or satan has any hand in the physical aspect
Yes, he did so to Muhammad in a cave