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Originally Posted by fern46
,... Historically, many cultures deal with mental illness quite differently. They view it as a spiritual disturbance that requires intervention on a soul level.....
We actually used to have far fewer patients experience recurrance of symptoms here in America before pharmacology intervened...
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I have come to believe that at least part of my illness had to do with my spiritual health. The psych meds I take manage some of the symptoms but not the causes. I am not against these meds but they do not fix everything. My POV is that at least some (perhaps all) of our mental illness is caused by external trauma, our own bad choices and lack of awareness of who we are spiritually. Healing mental illness is more like a life long journey of self discovery.