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Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? * 3
    #19334720 - 12/27/13 10:11 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Somehow because I have violent mood swings I'm "mentally ill" but the person that fears everyday for the wellbeing of their soul after death, because an invisible entity is going to condemn them to an eternity of pain is normal.  Seriously, our understanding of mental illness is such bullshit, I really can't figure it out on my own.  It seems to me that everyone is fucking crazy in some way or another, but everyone has different ways to cope with it.  Maybe I'm an asshole, but I think the "crazy" person that lives everyday on his own terms is less fucked in the head than the religious person that acts according to his fear of the afterlife.  People say mental illness isn't stigmatized, but everyone knows damn well if religion was listed in DSM-VI they would lose all credibility pisses me off even more.  Psychiatry is fucking bullshit, and anyone who has been through the system sees how fucking useless it is.  End rant.


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: fapjack] * 1
    #19334804 - 12/27/13 10:34 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Somehow because I have violent mood swings I'm "mentally ill" but the person that fears everyday for the wellbeing of their soul after death, because an invisible entity is going to condemn them to an eternity of pain is normal.




it would be an interesting experiment, to tell a shrink a story that fills out all those points but different and see what happens

eg, i fear my soul is going to be stolen by aliens because im not living a virtuous life, and they have technology to see everything

but more thought out so its seems plausible and not sounding like a religion


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  Seriously, our understanding of mental illness is such bullshit, I really can't figure it out on my own.  It seems to me that everyone is fucking crazy in some way or another, but everyone has different ways to cope with it.




it needs a lot of work, but its not rocket science

skitzo- delusions/hallucinations

bi-polor- mood swings

depression- sad

personality disorder - whole range of shit

IMO its not our understanding of the illness(or at least the symptoms if not the actual whats different in the brain)

but understanding of how to treat it, that needs work


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: hidenseek1]
    #19334828 - 12/27/13 10:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

What causes mental illness?  Is it in the mind or is it in the brain?  Its fucking pseudoscience.


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: fapjack] * 1
    #19334844 - 12/27/13 10:48 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

i wouldnt go as far as calling it fake, its definitely real, but theres a lot of money in keeping the model the way it is, if everyone stopped taking drugs, stopped eating crap itd fuck up some industries


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: fapjack] * 1
    #19334854 - 12/27/13 10:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I think your definition of religion could benefit from some qualification. Fearing for your soul after death isn't something only  religious folks do, nor is it something every religious person does.

That being said, yes, psychiatry does jump to labeling people. Why that is the case, I don't know. Perhaps it is a failure of the system, or perhaps it is working exactly as some pharmaceutical company has intended. Regardless...religion certainly can't be--at least not on it's own, what's upset you enough to post this.

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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: hidenseek1]
    #19334859 - 12/27/13 10:52 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Its an observation of basic human traits combined with really basic neuropharmacology to back it up.  Its junk science paired with a basic understanding of how the brain works, but the understanding of the mind is so minimal.  Its like making religion into a science really.


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: fapjack]
    #19334866 - 12/27/13 10:56 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Why isn't having a mental illnesses not a religion. ?


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: trekie]
    #19334872 - 12/27/13 10:58 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I am God, yo.

And so can you!


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: fiddle]
    #19334895 - 12/27/13 11:09 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Prove it.


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: fapjack]
    #19334897 - 12/27/13 11:10 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Our pursuit into our understanding of the human mind will always be limited by the current state of our collective cognitive ability.



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Its junk science paired with a basic understanding of how the brain works, but the understanding of the mind is so minimal.  Its like making religion into a science really.






At some point in time our (physical) medical industry was the same, I am sure a lot of early patients would have rather died from their injuries than endure the healing process of a doctor doing the worlds first amputation.


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: Stopwhispering]
    #19334913 - 12/27/13 11:16 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'm not talking about neuropharmacology.


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: fapjack]
    #19334923 - 12/27/13 11:18 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Prove what? That I am God? Or that you are too?

You'll just have to take my word for it.


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: fiddle]
    #19335721 - 12/28/13 06:14 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Because the majority of humans suffer from it. Sanity by consensus.


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: Quawonk]
    #19335730 - 12/28/13 06:18 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Mental illness is just a diverge from the common though, in fact, I would locked up almost everyone person on earth had I the chance, but since they are the most people, I would be the mad one...


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Re: Why isn't religion classified as a mental illness? [Re: Quawonk] * 1
    #19335892 - 12/28/13 07:41 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Quawonk said:
Sanity by consensus.




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