Religion and insanity

[Confused Ape]

From what I've seen in my father, who actually had a father who was schizophrenic, religion is the main contributing factor to him denying modern medical intervention in any and all parts of his physical body.

His reasoning is that god made our bodies, and doctors are just students of our bodies who try to override gods natural order to make themselves gods. No joke.

Most Christians accept medical treatment and there are Christians who are doctors and nurses.

Francis Collins, an Evangelical Christian -

is an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project

Your father's beliefs aren't run of the mill Christianity, then.

And he's definitely not the first christian I've come across with this problem, there's many who are mentally ill and refuse treatment thus suffering their families to their fate with a deeply ingrained religious blockade keeping them from being well.

It's possible that some of the people who are mentally ill refuse treatment because it's a symptom of their illnesses. I just looked up schizophrenia as an example but the quote includes other conditions which can result in the same thing -

http://www.everydayhealth.com/schizophre...iance.aspx

There are many reasons why people with schizophrenia do not seek, or get, the help they need.
According to Ken Duckworth, MD, medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, one crucial reason is anosognosia or an inability to recognize one's own illness. Dr. Duckworth says that half of people with schizophrenia simply don't realize that they're sick. They genuinely believe delusional ideas, such as that they're being watched, followed, or ordered around by external forces. This lack of recognition of one's symptoms and disease also occurs in people whose brains have been affected by strokes, injuries, tumors, and diseases like Alzheimer's.

Many people have delusional ideas which have nothing to do with Christianity.

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