Reply #36: Mental illness

[Zebedeo]

Thank you for your reply. It is interesting to hear your perspective. However, I take issue with your assertion that "the basics of mental illness are actually well understood and observed." I do not think that is an accurate statement at all. I think that mental illness remains quite mysterious.

If you understand mental illness so well, perhaps you could explain what causes a genetic vulnerability to schizophrenia. If you believe that it is caused by environmental factors, rather than genetic vulnerability, please identify with precision the particular environmental factors that cause it, and describe the biochemical reaction of the brain to those environmental factors. Please do not forget to address counterexamples, where persons have been exposed to the specified environmental factors, but have not developed schizophrenia.

You have also set up a blatant strawman, in suggesting that I have proposed "treating mental illness as a demonic possession." I made no such proposal. I simply asserted that demons are real, and that they affect people. This is a throughly documented fact, which you have utterly failed to rebut.

I genuinely look forward to your reply.

Best Regards,

Zebedeo