Are Brits 'possessed' or 'round the bend'?

[jaF0]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tank-warns-of-rise-in-exorcisms-mental-health

One danger was “Christian over-spiritualising” – a “tendency to ascribe anything and everything to spiritual causes when other medical ones may exist”. Another was a possible overlap between “demonic possession” and mental health issues.

One chaplain who described themselves as a “Bible-believing evangelical” told Ben Ryan, the report’s author, that “in all their experience with a mental health trust they had ‘never seen anything I would say that looked like demonic possession, but I’ve seen plenty of people who have been told that’s what they’re experiencing by other Christians’.”

The report says: “One of the frustrations of medical professionals with Christians comes from accounts and anecdotes of people with medical health issues going off their medication because they’ve been told that prayer is enough, and relapsing as a result.

“This is a classic example of well-meaning initiative with the potential for serious harm. It runs the risk of becoming a sort of spiritual abuse – which can be understood as psychological abuse inflicted upon the victim by members of their own religious group.”

 

[domroger]

Less than the Americans that voted Trump in .

 

[hobbit.]

burning at the stake, on the NHS - sorted.

 

[RedAllan]

So I might just be insane.

 

[SalviaDivinorum]

More like Round the Twist.