Someone close to me.......

[Brian37]

Religion only makes mental health issues worse.

This is manifestly untrue.

Boru

Yes it does. Religion is not neurology, or psychiatry and someone like the person i know, and myself for that matter, are not served by adding non clinical old mythology in as a crutch. I consider myself lucky to understand now what happened to me looking back, where as others do not understand how their own brain works. This person is merely looking for a crutch and that will not help them cope effectively with their mental health issues.

Even with something like a urinary tract infection, I've been told by nurses and doctors, having been through it with my late mother, that even something like that if it gets to the brain can cause very severe hallucinations. Please do not tell me that someone deeply indoctrinated into a religion, isn't going to mistake that as evil spirits.

Even in antiquity nobody new what epilepsy was, and it was quite common back then for humans to mistake that for demon possession. 

This person is using religion to cope, and that is not a health way to cope with the mental illness this person suffers from. I should know because I have the same issues. The only difference is I know how easily my brain can fool me neurologically/chemically speaking.

This person is being taken advantage of for no other reason than the people around this person want another club member.

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Humans can be very easily fooled, when in a mental state of stress, when they have a severe sense of loss our trauma.