Demons

[theVOID]

And have you any statistics what-so-ever that back up the idea is good for our "spiritual" health? The studies i have seen suggested otherwise, such as finding strong correlation between those who partake in a religion and those with developed mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, delusion and paranoia.

Well a quick google produces the opposite to what you quoted there VOID

"Spirituality involves a dimension of human experience that psychiatrists are increasingly interested in, because of its potential benefits to mental health."
- The Royal Society of Psychiatrists

"Spirituality is repeatedly found to be an important component of a person’s well-being. Despite this, people’s spiritual needs are often seen to be neglected during treatment and in developing and managing care plans for day-to-day activities, and even in some cases seen to be part of the individuals’ psychosis or delusions."
- Spirituality and Mental Illness (rethink.org)

"Spirituality can help people maintain good mental health"
- Mental Health Foundation

Spirituality is not Religion, rather Religion is the spirituality concerned with one or more sky daddies. Spirituality does not even have to have connection to the supernatural or pesudoscientific blabber, though it often does, it is more the sense of ones self and their connection to the environment around them - Now, go back and find studies on Religion and mental health - you'll notice the negative correlations immediately in the statistics.

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Frodo, by your understanding, a psychopathic murderer would be possessed by a demon, correct?

Those types of people generally have a chemical imbalance in their brains which causes this sort of antisocial behaviour - they're often born with it. So, would you say that the demon possessed the child at birth? Maybe it's the parents' fault for not protecting the child?

Just so you know, I'm not trying to gang up on you or anything, lol.

The psychiatrists love to bring up this whole "Chemical imbalance" in the brain because it helps them sell you drugs. To be perfectly clear to everyone here - there is no evidence what-so-ever that suggests that "Chemical Imbalances" in the brain are responsible for any psychosomatic behaviors what so ever, nor is there any test that can be carried out to look for these "imbalances" with any level of certainty or even a hypothesis on how these tests could be done. The main reason for the "Chemical imbalance" thinking is because of the fact that many of these mental illnesses are helped by the introduction of a chemical. It is thought that the chemicals were balancing the brain, but without any evidence to suggest that imbalance is indeed the cause, the success of psychiatry seems to be a long long history of trial and error.

New thinking supposes that many mental disorders are actually caused by the physical topology of the brain and an unexpected association of negative memories with mundane or even positive tasks; the effectiveness of drugs in treating them is more of a filter on the conscious mind than a restoration of chemical balance. It is supposed that Schizophrenia, for example, is the gradual confusion of ones own persona with a persona of a known individual, or even characteristics that together make a new individual resulting in what appears to be a new persona for said individual. Bi-polar is assumed to be a similar confusion - linking typical fight-or-flight and often extreme emotional responses with unrelated tasks.