Mental Illness Vs Demonic Possession?

[jasoncran]

It's not me I'm afraid of/for...it's potential psych patients I'll be encountering this semester. And, well, the rest of my career, really.

pm me i have had some dealing with psychosis and i'm more level headed then some in this topic.

my wife is type2 bi-polar so i do know much on pyschiatry and psychology and also i was set free from ptsd.

 

[musicayla]

pm me i have had some dealing with psychosis and i'm more level headed then some in this topic.

my wife is type2 bi-polar so i do know much on pyschiatry and psychology and also i was set free from ptsd.

If I knew how to pm on here, I'd take you up on that offer...haha

 

[Pebbles]

Sadly, that's what about 99% of neurological medicine is is speculation. Sure, we can SEE meningitis on an LP, we can SEE growths, tumors, hematomas, strokes, etc on an MRI or CT. But what about MS? ALS? Alzheimers? You name a neuro disease, and the likelihood of it being diagnosed with some tests and scans is slim to none. Many of those diseases are diagnosed by eliminating other diseases...putting a patient on a medication, and crossing our fingers and hoping it works. Many psych diseases are diagnosed much the same way. The DSM-IV is more of a....recommendation than an air-tight way to diagnose mental illness.

True although many mental illnesses can be diagnosed post mortem it's just not possible or ethical to do a brain biopsy just to diagnose depression. Schizophrenia is a problem in dopamine transmission, Depression Seratonin transmission. There are very easy diagnostic criteria for Althzimers detectable on a cat scan, aswell as MS and ALS. so are certain mental illnesses recently discovered to be detectable via fMRI Bi-polar disorder for exsample.

Although I do agree alot of psychatry is guess work because the problems are smaller and more subtle usually involving cell to cell interactions.

Working with mental illness isn't too bad once you understand how disrupted thought processes work, besides if your gonna be a Psych then you can just be one of those bad ones lol who dosen't know what they are doing. :P

Most of my friends have a mental illness of some discription from Anorexica bi-polar or Trichotillomania I myself have GID and have encountered psychatrists often. The trick to dealing with them is getting the person to recognise that they have a problem.

 

[Pizzaguy]

Both are very real. However, Jesus Christ has come to heal and deliver us of all of it.

Deliver, not heal.

 

[Oats]

So is it possible that these two afflictions are in fact the same?

we agree on many, many things...


but i don't have a demon, am saved, and have schizophrenia


there is a clear difference, study the gospels

there is no black and white as far as diagnoses go

 

[Lewis]

Jeremiah suffered from depression

Jeremiah 15:10-18 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 11 The LORD said, “Have I not set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress? 12 Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze? 13 “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. 14 I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.†15 O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me,, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach. 16 Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts. 17 I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Is there mental illness in the Bible ? Go here
The Christian and Mental Illness IV: Is There Mental Illness In The Bible? | internetmonk.com

 

[Pizzaguy]

but i don't have a demon, am saved, and have schizophrenia

As does my youngest son.