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by simplexion 3357 days ago
I'm thinking the exact opposite.
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As food for thought about how we treat the mentally ill, it is quite interesting. Hopefully, nobody will go away believing the nonsense about spirits attaching to people, but the manner in which they give the depressed a role to grow into and an external reason for their suffering could really help some. The alternative "you are internally broken" message from modern science can be unpleasant, even if it's true.