Quote Originally Posted by CleoSquare View Post
My own view is that Mental illness covers a huge spectrum of disorders/problems from anxiety based issues that can often be overcome by relaxation and cognitive behavioural therapy and correct spiritual grounding to problems caused by childhood attachments and deep seated abuse to the major illness such as bipolar and schizophrenia.

Some of these disorders may be as utterly physical as say heart disease. Some people are born with a tendancy towards heart disease, and unhealthy lifestyle can trigger it, but there are some people who do everything healthily and still develop it...

Schizophrenia is a physical condition, but of course if you smoke weed, you increase your of developing it 12 fold if vulnerable, however, sadly there are people, through no fault of their own develop it.
There is a mental illness that is purely accidental. I have a sister who had lacked of oxygen at her brain when she was born. She has a mental age of a baby of two years old. She suffered all her life but she is sinless. Not a big consolation. It is difficult to find a reasonable explanation (philosophically and spiritually) for her brain damages, unless she have a particular mission in this life. And perhaps we (my family) are concerned by this mission. Perhaps this is about us.

Trinity