Where would the world be right now if religion never existed?

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pizzahut451 said:

So what word do the psychologists use for the state when you dont wanna eat food AT ALL ???? And how coe doctors and psychologists wernt able to help her???

After years of unsuccessful psychiatric treatments, they gave up on medical treatment and chose to rely solely on the exorcisms for healing.[2] The rites of exorcism were performed over the course of about ten months in 1976.. Though she had received treatment for epilepsy, by this time, at her own request, doctors were no longer being consulted.[2] This was because Anneliese mentioned the "demons" to the doctors, explaining that they started to give her orders.[1] The doctors seemed unable to help, and Anneliese lost hope that medicine was going to be able to cure her.[1]

Doctors aren't able to cure everything. Plus, from personal experience, I've noticed that in the case of psychological issues one must fully cooperate with the psychologist/psychiatrist and truly want to get better. This girl attributed her illness to demon possession and probably never fully cooperated with the speicalists trying to help her.

As for the not eating food part, seriously man, haven't you ever heard of eating disorders?

The reason doctors weren't able to help her was because they couldn't find the cause of her illness. Maybe they didn't have the necessary resources to find out what she had. Maybe the child's religious parents were disrupting the treatment. We don't have that much info about this.

Haven't you ever noticed that it's only religious people that get possessed by demons? And why is it that these religious people always seem to get possessed by things that they were taught to fear? Couldn't it be that when mental illness strikes these people, it takes the form of what they fear the most?