RE: How can Christians not admit Christianity is all a pile of garbage when ...?
February 12, 2012 at 9:50 pm
(February 12, 2012 at 9:35 pm)Abracadabra Wrote:(February 12, 2012 at 9:04 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'd go so far as to guess that the vast majority of people do at times exhibit symptoms of some disorder or another, without meeting clinical criteria (and in most cases, not even coming close). This doesn't mean that people who do meet the criteria aren't disordered.
Well, I certainly agree with that.
In fact, in the case of schizophrenia (merely imagining things to the point where they appear lucidly real), if this mental phenomenon could be mastered to the point where it could be called upon only when a person wishes to do so, then could that even be called a "disorder"?
It likely wouldn't be considered schizophrenia, if it were possible at all. There's a lot more to schizophrenia than delusions. To be clear, I'm not one of those that consider delusional thinking alone to be enough to diagnose a mental disorder.
