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In some instances, they may also experience distressing symptoms if they believe a god is inducing illness as punishment. The patient may refuse treatment based on religious speculation. In certain instances, one might believe that the delusions and hallucinations are a divine experience, and therefore deny medical treatment. [23]
The mental health of Jesus is defended by Christian psychiatrists Olivier Quentin Hyder, [94] Pablo Martinez, and Andrew Sims. [95] [96] Christian apologists, such as Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel, [97] [98] also take up the subject of Jesus' sanity defense.
In Ghana, people with mental illnesses and neurological disorders are routinely sent to prayer camps that are linked with Evangelical and Pentecostal churches, to try to overcome their disorder. Prayer camps have been condemned by Human Rights Watch because of the way that people in prayer camps are often treated. Human Rights Watch reports ...
People will tell you to just choose to be happy, or get over it, or forgive, but words are so cheap. Moving past something and forgiving is a process you go through. You don't actually have ...
Modern Christians do not consider suicide an unforgivable sin (though still wrong and sinful) or something that prevents a believer who died by suicide from achieving eternal life. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The rate of suicide among Catholics is consistently lower than among Protestants , with Jewish suicide usually lower than both, except during times ...
Skeptics of faith healers point to fraudulent practices either in the healings themselves (such as plants in the audience with fake illnesses), or concurrent with the healing work supposedly taking place and claim that faith healing is a quack practice in which the "healers" use well known non-supernatural illusions to exploit credulous people ...
According to Tanya Luhrmann, the associated "hearing of spiritual voices" may seem to be "mental illness" to many people, but to the followers who shout and dance together as a crowd it isn't. [19] The followers believe that there is a long tradition in Christian spirituality, where saints such as Augustine are stated to have had similar ...
The link between religion and mental health may be due to the guiding framework or social support that it offers to individuals. [37] By these routes, religion has the potential to offer security and significance in life, as well as valuable human relationships, to foster mental health.