Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

DEGREE OF RELIGIOSITY, EMPATHY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS

FUNCTIONAL-DYSFUNCTIONAL BRAIN SPECTRUM AND RELIGIOSITY:

Schizophrenia (Female Brain Failure Point)

… Psychosis (Female Extreme)

… … Solipsism (Loss of difference between self and others)

… … … Sensitive (empathic -sympathetic )

… … … … Empathy-Sympathy-Systematizing (balanced)

… … … Analytic (sympathetic -systematizing)

… … Aspergers (systematizing)

… Functional Autism (Male Extreme)

Non Functional Autism (Mail Brain Failure point)

RELATION TO THE DEVOTED:

Schizophrenia: Extacy, Hear Voices, illusory experiences.

Psychosis: Anti Social Devoted

Solipsism: Committed Devoted

Sensitive: Find Utility In it membership

Empathy-Sympathy-Systematizing: Go along with it.

Analytic Resist it.

Aspies: Reject it.

Functional Autists: Can’t comprehend it.

Non Functional Austists (non-conscious of self)

Mental illness is more visible among christians because the extremes of belief are supernatural rather than social or familial.

Whites and Jews are the only peoples to fully take advantage of mental health. The groups with the most mental health issues do not seek out mental health professionals. This is because we have removed the stigma simply by using it enough.

RELIGIOSITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS

—“The relationship between religion and schizophrenia is of particular interest to psychiatrists because of the similarities between religious experiences and psychotic episodes; religious experiences often involve auditory and/or visual hallucinations, and those with schizophrenia commonly report similar hallucinations, along with a variety of beliefs that are commonly recognized by modern medical practitioners as delusional.[1] In general, religion has been found to have “both a protective and a risk increasing effect” for schizophrenia.[2]

A common report from those with schizophrenia is some type of religious belief that many medical practitioners consider to be delusional – such as the belief they are divine beings or prophets, that a god is talking to them, they are possessed by demons, etc.[3][4][5] Active and adaptive coping skills in subjects with residual schizophrenia are associated with a sound spiritual, religious, or personal belief system.[6] In a study of patients with schizophrenia that had been previously admitted to a hospital, 24% had what the medical field refers to as religious delusions.

Trans-cultural studies have found that such religious beliefs, which often may not be associated with reality, are much more common in patients with schizophrenia who identify as Christian and/or reside in predominately Christian areas such as Europe or North America.[7][8] By comparison, patients in Japan much more commonly have delusions surrounding matters of shame and slander,[7] and in Pakistan matters of paranoia regarding relatives and neighbors.[8]”—

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Siddle, Ronald; Haddock, Gillian; Tarrier, Nicholas; Faragher, E. Brian (1 March 2002). “Religious delusions in patients admitted to hospital with schizophrenia”. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 37 (3): 130–138. doi:10.1007/s001270200005. PMID 11990010.

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Stompe T, Friedman A, Ortwein G, Strobl R, Chaudhry HR, Najam N, Chaudhry MR (1999). “Comparison of delusions among schizophrenics in Austria and in Pakistan”. Psychopathology. 32 (5): 225–34. doi:10.1159/000029094. PMID 10494061.