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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
my point was that I don't believe there to be such a thing as 'health', whether it be bodily or spiritual. There are just different states of existance. Without the hypothetical (and I daresay illusory) ideal against which to compare one's physical state, there can be no degradation or improvement. Just alteration of form. I think that body is constantly in flux, with proteins entering and leaving and cells birthing and cells dying. And in turn, the individual body forms merely a smaller 'protein' within a larger ecosystem, which is also in constant flux. Thus, this constant flow, this constant metamorphosis, is not conducive to a notion of 'the ideal' or 'health'. Nor is it conducive, in my opinion, to the idea of 'life' and 'death' as polar opposites....
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You know, a body does not consist only of proteins. And your personal beliefs should not be a basis for deciding about a patients health.
Schizophrenia is a brain disease, not only a change in behavior. The (spiritual) approach of psychologists might not be enough in that case.
[ 09-02-2004, 12:39 PM: Message edited by: chimaera ]