Posted by Dinah on December 19, 2003, at 22:01:11
In reply to Antidepressants and religious faith..., posted by Tovah on December 19, 2003, at 20:59:01
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> Are we medicating things today that would have been treated spiritually in the past? How do we know today if our problem is emotional or spiritual?
>Absolutely. Many epileptics and schizophrenics would have been considered posessed by demons and the treatment of choice would have been exorcism, not anticonvulsants or antipsychotics. We tend to explain things in the terms we understand. And perhaps in these days, we understand neurotransmitters and medical models better than we do spiritual ones.
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