Is mental illness a punishment for sin?

[ok doser]

... mental illness is real ...

praying for you in your time of difficulty artie

[Arthur Brain]

praying for you in your time of difficulty artie

I've dealt with mental illness in my life and had no choice but to recognize it, come to terms with it and counteract it. Was this just a cheap shot?

[ok doser]

I've dealt with mental illness in my life and had no choice but to recognize it, come to terms with it and counteract it.

i suspect we all have, to some degree

keep yer chin up

[Arthur Brain]

i suspect we all have, to some degree

keep yer chin up

A lot more than most realize I suspect.

[Town Heretic]

Because mental illness is real and the only ones who deny it tend to be religious zealots.

An odd truth, but a truth. Not most of orthodox Christendom, of course, but some of the weaker branches. Then there's Scientology. They hate it like sand sandwiches. Islam isn't wild about it either, though it is allowed so long as it is subordinate to religious teaching. I'm not sure how other religions treat it.

[ok doser]

keep yer chin up

this was nagging at me earlier and i got stuck on this:

Spoiler

but i finally got it:

Spoiler

kinda like wilfred brimley yelling at you to eat your damn oatmeal

[Jacob]

Not necessarily it isn't.

Do people who have done nothing wrong have mental illness?

What about people who have sinned? Do they all have mental illness?

Maybe these are some things to think about.

People say that I have mental illness but I do not believe that I do. I do believe that I have been drugged. And I do not believe that someone who is fine should try any drug. Not even someone who is not fine or okay.

[God's Truth]

Then why do therapy and pills work on healing some mentally-ill people who continue to live in sin while failing to heal other people who repent and try to live righteous lives (there have been documented cases of monks, nuns, pastors, preachers etc. who struggled with mental illness)?

There are some denominations for which demons cause things like OCD, superstitions, suicide attempts.
For instance, there are a lot of people with OCD and superstition in the Catholic denomination; and, there are many suicides in the Mormon denomination when young people attempt to leave it.
However, there are also some people who are born with brain damage.

[Arthur Brain]

AB is the classless halfwit drunk on malt liquor who shows up uninvited to a party just to make racist comments while having diarrhea in his clown pants.

Yeah, you're just full of class...or something.



Otherwise, my response was in answer to Lucian and if you're another nut that denies the reality of mental illness then once again, clueless as ever.

(Oh, and please stop projecting)

[ok doser]

eat your damn oatmeal!

[Jacob]

The enmity has been abolished. One new man.

[Truster]

The Old Testament tells us that God punished King Saul by allowing an evil spirit to torment him. In what way, it is not very clear, but from Sault's erratic behavior, I conclude that it was some sort of mental illness (paranoia, schizophrenia, OCD etc.).

Can we take this incident as an example that mental illness could be a punishment for our sinful actions, and if so, is any attempt to treat mental illness through other means than seeking Gog's forgiveness futile?

If you think it is for you then it is.

[annabenedetti]

Can we take this incident as an example that mental illness could be a punishment for our sinful actions, and if so, is any attempt to treat mental illness through other means than seeking Gog's forgiveness futile?

No.

[Lucian Hodoboc]

Gog's forgiveness

I meant to type "God" in that post. I am unable to edit it.

[Ktoyou]

The Old Testament tells us that God punished King Saul by allowing an evil spirit to torment him. In what way, it is not very clear, but from Sault's erratic behavior, I conclude that it was some sort of mental illness (paranoia, schizophrenia, OCD etc.).

Can we take this incident as an example that mental illness could be a punishment for our sinful actions, and if so, is any attempt to treat mental illness through other means than seeking Gog's forgiveness futile?

No, but a broken leg is. I never seek Gog, only God.