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   Psychosis as a medical symptom carries with it the heavy stigma of "mental illness," which can earn a patient the long-term label of a mental illness on their medical record and mandatory hospitalization. Nevertheless, there are a variety of medical conditions for which psychosis is a symptom, and the majority are not mental illnesses. Technically therefore, psychosis (hallucinations and delusions) can happen to anybody as a result of a physical malady- many are easily detected and treated.  Psychosis can happen as a temporary symptom and be misdiagnosed with a long-term label, and this does happen. I must preface this by saying that this post in no way constitutes medical advice.    According to Medline Plus (a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine) the following are a list of medical problems and diseases that can cause psychosis (schizophrenia-type symptoms)- "A number of medical problems can cause psychosis, including: Alcohol  a...

  When I was a high school freshman my locker was next to a teacher's office named Mr. Hanson. During passing periods when the students were exchanging books in their lockers, Hanson would always talk with Mr. Fleege (another social science teacher) outside his office in earshot of the students.  They would intentionally talk in earshot of the students, as these people were not stupid, and they knew what they were doing. It had something to do with transparency and casually imparting information to people. I am always rivoted to conversations like that if people are talking in a way which means they want to be heard by everyone, but it's directed at one person next to them.    One day Mr. Hanson was trying to get to the heart of the matter as to what his work as a high school teacher was doing for people. "It is not so much that we are imparting knowledge for people to remember forever. Indeed, we do impart knowledge and students use the things they learn sometimes....

   I haven't posted lately because there's too much to say. Things have to be said which are heavy, and I have reflected on what to write next in the middle of the occurrence of so many possible ideas. I will post again after I organize and prioritize what has to be said.

  Little do some people know, punishing others for their sin will not atone for their sin, abrogate their sin, take care of their sin, or cleanse them of their sin. I am mainly speaking here about the misguided notion of humans punishing other humans for their sins.  Only Jesus Christ can take away sin because he was considered as a lamb without spot or blemish, the perfect sacrifice (according to 1 Peter 1:19, John 1:29, Hebrews 10:12).  Furthermore, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was once for all and doesn't require any further sacrificial atonement in any capacity whatsoever, and this concept is repeated often in the book of Hebrews (for example, Hebrews 9:12, 10:10, 10:14).   There are forms of "punishing" people in church discipline and other aspects of life, but actual consequences never atone for people's sin, they only urge people to repent. Procedures should always resemble Biblical steps such as Matthew 18:15-17.   People, in their wicked human nature...

   There will be some who will want to say that I was being illogical or unbiblical when I wrote the post about how personality differences get misunderstood.  Their argument is basically that differing personalities are a consequence of the Fall of Man- a consequence of the DNA getting disordered.  Therefore, they will say, that people who don't fit the "perfect personality" are sinful. God created one man, they will say, with a perfect personality (Adam).  In truth, they can cite Adam, Eve, and Jesus.  That argument is not correct, and I will stand my ground on this.    The reason why they are not correct is because they are making the unwarranted assumption all of Adam's descendants would have had the same personality had the Fall never happened. I can say with a fair degree of certainty that had the Fall never happened, there would have been different kinds of people with different personalities, it just would have been a more perfect world. ...

   When I wrote the previous post containing the informed consent arguments, I was conscious already of the fact that some hold to a trichotomy view of humans (body, soul, and spirit).  A dichotomy view (body and soul) is defensible from the scriptures, definitely, and both are theological positions people should study and be made aware of.  Here is a paper by an individual who holds to the position of the dichotomy view, and the position is defended by scripture.   http://rbseminary.org/storage/downloads/Man's%20Constitution%20as%20a%20Physical-Spiritual%20Unity%201.1.pdf    Here are the credentials for the writer of this paper as stated in the footnotes:       Robert Gonzales Jr. is the academic dean of Reformed Baptist Seminary (www.rbseminary.org) in Easley, South Carolina, where he also serves as a pastor of Covenant Reformed Baptist Church. He also serves as an adjunct professor for Midwest Center for Theological Studies. He has ...

   I am going to be generous for the time being in releasing this information. The original form was written down by me as a simple outline. People should think on their own and not just take my word for it. Act sensibly and do your own due diligence in regards to your own plans and decisions. People can use these arguments to argue for their own rights or the rights of others. These are basically arguments for informed consent rights for patients in psychiatry, as a defense against mandatory treatment.   The main argument I've written here is crafted from presuppositional apologetic methodology. People have to study the presuppositional method to understand how to employ this.  It is an argument from the Christian worldview. The argument is as follows.    Historically, behavioral medicine developed from behavioral psychology which was developed upon an atheist worldview containing the precept that people have no souls. In such a worldview of naturalism, ...