insanity or psychiatric disorder is a neurological disease or fruit of action of our last birth(samskara)?

Answer 1

While a psychiatric disorder may be karmically based, does that really make a difference in this life? We can't know why someone is ill, and judging their illness as a samskara may lead to us feeling like they deserve to be ill.
Instead, why not let our natural tendency toward compassion lead the way when we encounter these illnesses? People who are ill need good care, and those of us who are not ill need to take actions to see that they get that care.

All we can do is act with the best intentions and skill now. We can't know what came before, and we can't control what happens next. We do what we can to be present and skillful in this moment, and let the rest go......
Namaste.

Answer 2

it's a combo. But certain disorders have neurological explaination - patological changes (or abnormality) in a brain. Some are caused by imbalance of chemicals, like depression. The trick is, whether depression is endogenous (not caused by anything) or caused by stress or unhappiness in life, in both cases are affected serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline levels - that can be 're-uptaken' by inhibitors of these substances which we call antidepressants of third and fourth generation.

Answer 3

There are two ways of looking at the same thing. What a medical expert says as the reason for your physical or mental condition is true from the physical and medical point of view. From the philosophical point of view, all that happens to us, has a karma basis. All that we go through is to work out our karma. This cannot be vouched for in medical science.

Answer 4

I think fruits of our actions,we get in this life only.If you look around,all smugglers,thieves,politicians are rich and honest people are having hard time getting food to eat.If you think that, this is all due to our actions,I being Brahman hate to say that I do not believe in Samskara.

Answer 5

My mother treated me and my brother awfully bad when we were kids growing up....she was THE MOST NEGLECTFUL parent you will EVER she couldn't wait to be rid of us and this is something I noticed when I was around 7 or 8 yrs old. She let other people abuse us while she stood back and pretended that she didn't see it. Our childhood was absolute hell. She started drinking when I was 13 and almost died of it when I was in my mid 20's. She was finally diagnosed with Schizophrenia when I was in my mid 30's. I am now 49 and have a love/hate relationship with my mother and our roles are reversed, and I am sick of taking care of her....but I would NEVER do anything to her to get revenge all that would do is bring bad karma onto myself and the people that I love. I do wish they would institutionalize her but they won't, all they do is keep her for a couple of weeks here and there, stablilize her and send her back to her apartment. It never ends, they have to kill someone or try to harm themselves before they will put them away for good.

I am mentally and emotionally tired of taking care of her and putting up with her sh***y attitude when all I'm trying to do is help her clean up her filthy home and get her to stop driving her car.
I have a 14yr old daughter and raised one daughter to adulthood while all the while caring for my mother, who did her best to hide from me I had to search the streets for her at times, this could be karma for her after the way she treated me and my brother as kids who knows.

Answer 6

Whoa. Hold up there Tom Cruise. What do you mean "our last birth". In my religion we only get one birth so the question is religiously biased.

Answer 7

So long as you obtained your thinking apparatus in this birth, you can be sure that any disorder is the result of your karma _in this birth_.

Answer 8

its is neurological.. n anyways how r we supposed to know even if it is bcoz of somethin we did in our previous janma... sometimes it also occurs bcoz of some genitical disorder..

Answer 9

We'll probably never know if it's the latter, so we should concentrate on the former, I reckon.