Why do so many religious people end up in insane asylums, and how do we handle the ones that are still with us

Answer 1

People take this statement so personally, but I know what you mean. I have a couple of really religious people in my family and they happen to be really mentally unstable. It just seems to go with the territory... mental illness and religion often go hand in hand. That's not to say that a person cannot be nonreligious and have a mental illness, that's definitely not the case.

However, I've known way too many "religious" people in my life who could have used some kind of treatment... not of the religious kind.

Answer 2

So many "people" religious and non, end up in insane asylums... trying to suggest that it only effects religious is ignorant. Some of the non-religious, accept religion in their asylum because it is preached there...because God can work in all people, not just the one's who claim to be this or that.... you can become insane at any given moment yourself!
One chemical snap in the brain.... Pfffft -done!

Answer 3

Amazing. And if someone posted a question like "why do so many black people end up in asylums", it would be immediately reported and, heck, there might even be a story about it on MSNBC. Do you really not see how ludicrous the assumptions behind this question are, or how hateful the expression?

And no, I haven't reported it and I'm not going to. I don't honestly think it violates the ToS. I just think it violates any reasonable concept of logic or, for that matter, taste.

Answer 4

Flawed logic once again.

I would submit to you, Why are so many famous dead people insane? For example, George Washington, Napolean Bonaparte, Elvis, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus Christ himself? I'm pretty sure they've all been locked up at some point (or at least people who claim to be them have.)

What statistics do you have that show how many insane religious people are institutionalized?

Also DHARMANTOR, I'm not sure what your expertise are in the field of medical diagnosis, but those symptoms sound more like epilepsy (which is not a mental disorder) than schizophrenia.

Answer 5

It isn't only China and what was Russia who mis-use the mental health facilities it also happens in the west too

The answer is in the Three Truths

RIDICULE VIOLENT OPPOSITION UNTIL IT IS ACCEPTED AS SELF EVIDENT

What better way to keep the truth suppressed

In the words of Dylan they keep it all well hid

Answer 6

I have met more non-religious ones than religious ones.
Oftentimes, it's just the family members that think there's something wrong with them. Of course, once they're in the system, those tricky psychs will find something. Gotta justify the paycheck.

Answer 7

Again, it amazes me that people come to a religion board to show their stupidity by saying bad things about religious people just to pick a fight

Well...........

*adding to to my prayer list for today*

Answer 8

I remember watching one of these wife swap programs on the TV some months back, and there was a fundy christian as one of the swaps. I was shocked when I added up all her religious revelations - such as smelling smoke and sulphur, headaches and temper tantrums right before smelling smoke - and realised this clearly schizophrenic woman was let loose on the streets, obviously unmedicated.

So it seems like the ones that are still with us are made a spectacle of on national TV.

Answer 9

Actually (above) - Charles Manson was a Scientologist.

Answer 10

these are those who say " I visited the sick in Your Name Lord"......and the Lord said "but I never knew you" many are called but few are chosen.......it could drive a person insane
especially a 'poser'......hypocrite......and how do we handle the 'posers' all around us? very carefuly !