RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 9, 2017 at 10:59 am
Let me rephrase.
I think negative environmental factors certainly can trigger someone who is already genetically susceptible/prone to mental illness. Like everything else, religion can certainly be a negative or positive environmental factor. So in that sense, yes. Religion could play a role or be a contributing factor in someone's mental illness. But to say theists are more prone to mental illness is incorrect. Genetics makes people more prone to mental illness. Unless in extreme cases where something very traumatic happened, someone who has no genetic susceptibility to mental illness isn't going to become mentally ill.
I think negative environmental factors certainly can trigger someone who is already genetically susceptible/prone to mental illness. Like everything else, religion can certainly be a negative or positive environmental factor. So in that sense, yes. Religion could play a role or be a contributing factor in someone's mental illness. But to say theists are more prone to mental illness is incorrect. Genetics makes people more prone to mental illness. Unless in extreme cases where something very traumatic happened, someone who has no genetic susceptibility to mental illness isn't going to become mentally ill.
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