sapphi_snake said:
Could it be maybe the same reaction any person would have when questionalbe individuals tie them down? And what if the possesed person is insane? No ammount (like the nun from my story). Keeping them tied down and starving them to death is the way to go, no? |
No.
Like I said, isn't really medically explained.
The majority of exorcisms are done at the persons behest by people who were close to them their entire lives. There really aren't many, if any cases of exorcisms caused against peoples will.
In general, the scientific opinion is that it's one of three things.
1) I actually forget the scientific name is for it. Though in general it's described as "Believers effect". Like how most evangelists spasm when a preist channels into them the word of the lord or whatever they're doing.
It's thought the "Demon possession" might have been born out of this. IE they made some mistakes that go against what they believe, and rationalized it as being "out of their control" and a demon made them do it.... much how some people rationalize their inability to give up addictions or other bad habits they have. Demon essentially replaced addiction. These people are represented by those that have exorcisms, then grow up normal people of that faith. (Of which, there actually are quite a bit.)
This might actually be a reason why there are a number of successful exorcisms. The person suddenly feels "freed" of the demon, tricking them into giving up the negative things they were doing because they suddenly feel like they have way more power and self control.
That and other "Placebo" like effects anyway, since exorcisms actually are known to stop pain and the like too for some people.
2) People trying to get out of trouble. Like the above, but exorcism is seen as a way to get out of disapointment from others/punishment/hard feelings. Considering the great lengths you go through, this is likely expected to be the smallest group. In general these guys are usually people who are represented by children, who grow up and move away, people who get "possessed" twice and refuse exoricsm the second time, or just are often "Possessed".Sometimes they can transition into group 1.
3) Remanifestation of the disorder coincidentally during exorcism. The likelyness of this really depends on the disorder. The group of people effected like this are probably between groups 1 & 3 and likely are the "failed" cases of exoricisms.
People generally like to blame Dissociative Identity Disorger for the majority of exorcisms... but ironically if you ask most psychologists they would say Dissociative Identity Disoder doesn't really exist or if it does... is extremely rare as there seems to be totally regional. (IE Split personality disorder/ what most people incorrectly define as schitzophrenia.) Amusingly DID is kinda like Psychologys version of Demonic possession.
In 1944, there were 76 cases of DID ever... vs like... I don't even know the number now, but lets just say it's increased by over 100,000% in occurence. Well, only in the countries that believe in DID. Just how demon possession generally only happens in countries that believe in it. Though at least exorcist believers have an excuse for it. (IE: Targeting the faithful.)
It's actually considered to not be that high because Exorcism success rates are actually usually pretty high... espiecally in the Catholic Church which mandates that psychiatric evaluations must happen before any exorcism so as to avoid the mentally ill being exorcised.
None of those really explains Huaxiong's case. Most likely people would see it as a case 1 and that the decline in "spirtuality" was mostly internalized and slow leading to an eventually loss in belief which was then put on a demon.
