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Most mental illnesses are caused by spirits, if you study how mental illness is dealt with in traditional societies you will find that.
Example, in one African tribe if you are deeply depressed they take you to the local healer and find out which ancestral or other spirit is causing it, they might say you have the spirit of a dead warrior ancestor in you that’s mourning, they do lots of things to figure out what’s causing the depression, then they do a sweep to remove the spirits, that can possess you.
Schizophrenic like symptoms mean you’re in contact with spirits both malignant and divine, talking to you, bothering you, deluding you, sometimes you see them, it means you’re usually meant to become a healer/shaman and in my tribe [im 1/4 black] having schiz symptoms is called ukuthwasa kwegqira: to emerge as a healer. That’s what it translates too, and this is how it’s seen world over in traditional societies, even Europe. But you can also be labeled amafufunyana which just means spirit possessed, phambana which just means madness.
Mania too present in bipolar, was always considered divine, or to be divine possession and our word mania comes from the Italian goddess mania, who is goddess of spirits, the night, madness, chaos.
If you study ancient or traditional societies you will see nothing but mental illness discussed in spiritual terms/ and in relation to spirits. Very new Psychiatry chooses to be atheist and to ignore thousands of years of spiritual traditions that explain these states, and prefers to see all spiritual phenomena as brain errors instead. They are not interested in the deeper meaning behind these states, only suppressing what happens or surface understanding.
They should listen to some traditional and non western methods because they have higher recovery rates for many mental illnesses than we do.
Watch the trailer for the film ‘crazy wise’ on YouTube or Vimeo to learn more.
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