Everyone is Mentally Ill By Anthony Faber, Phd. Perpetual (C)Copyright (2011 C.E.) By Anthony J. Fejfar and Neothomism, P.C.

(PA) and The American People and The People of God and The People You may have the impression that relatively few people are mentally ill, and that mental illness is a fairly severe type of affliction. In fact, this is not true. Instead, it is the simple truth that everyone is mentally ill, even the psychiatrists. If you were to look in Websters Dictionary, as well as others, you would find that the phrase mentally ill or mental illness, is not listed as a word. To the extent that you do find the However, the

word in some other dictionary, it is typically defined as a person who is crazy.

idea that a person is crazy, is not scientific, and it is a fallaciouis, circular definition is the word crazy, is typically defined as a person who is mentally ill. Now, it is also apparent that most people would say, if questioned, that a crazy person is simply someone who is different. Thus, the idea of mental illness is culturally relative, and thus invalid. To a jew a Christian and a

moslem is mentally ill. To a Christian a moslem is mentally ill and so is a jew. To an athiest materialist, a jew, a Christian, and a moslem are all mentally ill for believing in God. Christian would also consider a satanist to be mentally ill. Now, if you were to look at the handbook for psychiatrists, called the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, you would find that the major psychiatric diagnosis or labels, are: Cognitive Dementia, Bipolar, Schizo-affective, and Schizophrenia. Each one of these diagnostic labels, to some degree is based upon the idea that the person/patient, is psychotic. However, the problem is that the Diagnostic Statistical Manual does not define psychosis. You see, psychosis, means out A

of touch with reality. But you see, the psychiatric profession cannot adequately define reality nor psychosis in an objectively valid manner, as psychiatry is presently practiced. Now, what

psychiatry really uses is an implicit logical positivism, where logical positivism is defined as sense experience and logical reasoning therefrom. However, the problem with this is that

sense experience is not universally or objectively valid, inasmuch as sensory illusions take place all the time, such as, feeling the temperature of the air outside when you have just left a cold room as opposed to a hot room. Also, leaving a dark room rather than a light room. Leaving a room that was silent rather than a room where loud music was blaring. Tasting some food after eating something sweet as apposed to sour. In all of the above instances we find that sense experience is not objective, as such, but rather is to some degree homeopathic, that is, is adjusts to its surrounding environment to some degree. Thus, sense experience cannot be treated as

some sort of absolute, as sense experience logical positivism seems to suggest. Next, logical reasoning from sense experience can be used to prove the Existence of God as both the First Cause, Uncaused Cause, and as the Unmoved Mover. One proof starts with causation and the other proof starts with movement. In each case it is proved that since an infinite regress of effects back to causes, and an infinite regress of movements back to movers cannot take place within a finite universe, as the finite cannot contain the infinite, therefore, ther must be a First Cause, Uncaused Cause and an Unmoved Mover, namely, God. Thus, one can prove the Existence of God with Logical Positivism, although ignorant people such as Stephen Hawking, often assert the untrue opposite. Next, in terms of logical positivism, the question arises as to whether what a person reads with ocular vison, or hears with auditory hearing, counts as sense experience or not. If not, then we cannot refer to anything that we have ever heard, from childhood onward. Nor can we refer to

anything that we have read from childhood onward, which of course would exclude pretty much everything. On the other hand, if we can count reading a book and hearing a lecture for purposes of Logical Positivism, then the content a book of theology and metaphysics counts as sense experience as so does a auditory lecture of theology and metaphysics. Next, given the diagnostic categories in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Psychiatry, the follows beliefs would be considered the basis for a serious mental illness: 1. A belief in God 2. A belief in satan 3. A belief in Good Luck 4. A belief in Christmas 5. A belief in Santa Claus 6. A belief in bad luck 7. A belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 8. A belief that Muhammed is a Prophet of God 9. A belief that Moses parted the Red Sea 10. A belief in magic 11. A belief in psychic abilities 12. A belief in telepathy 13. A belief in telekenisis 14. A belief in miraculous healings 15. A belief that the Virgin Mary was assumed bodily into heaven 16. A belief in the true presence of Jesus in the Eucharist 17. A belief in life after death

18. A belief in electricity 19. A belief in Quantum Physics 20. A belief that a Four Leaf Clover is Good Luck 21. A belief in Justice 22. A belief in Liberty 23. A belief in Freedom 24. A belief in Love 25. A belief in Happiness

Now, given the foregoing, we can see that psychiatry is an irrational profession and discipline, and at the same time Everyone is Mentally Ill.