Yes, you are correct, not everyone who worships has what we would define as a mental disorder. We are pretty certain that is correct anyway; there is no real way to tell after all and how would one even measure the severity of one's beliefs? While fantasizing about possible scenarios and basing policies off of them is in bad taste, I see no problem with a simple discussion on how elements of religion in culture may traumatize people. That is all that I am trying to accomplish in this episode. Freudian psychology posited that all religion is a symptom of mental disorder; this biased claim has no basis in reality. However, religious entities often discourage psychiatric care, stating that belief in their particular deity can remedy all mental health problems. This is also very untrue. Many spiritual people are told, often times by representatives of religious faith in their own community, that any problem they have with mental health, any at all, can be remedied by having a stronger faith in god. But is this even possible? Recent developments in psychiatry have shown that mental disorders are biological in nature. If you believe in creation then you probably are familiar with the term, "that is the way god made me". Well, if god is real, then he, she or it, also created certain people with mental health issues. This does not meant that the side effects of mental health problems present themselves immediately. In fact, it can take up to twenty, forty or, in some cases, even up to sixty years before any symptoms present themselves. The symptoms are triggered by trauma, which generally comes in the form of loss: loss of career, loss of wealth, loss of loved ones, loss of one's home, etc. These traumatic experiences are troublesome for the vast majority of people, but it can be absolutely devastating for those with serious mental disorders, causing them to spiral into mental breakdowns. This is one instance where prayer has definitively been shown not to work. No matter what you hear about "the benefits of religion" online, you can not make a serious argument that you can pray away biology. You can go ahead and bow before god all you like, but he, she or it, is not going to change your skin color, and the same can be said for your neurological composition. You are born with one brain and the environment you live in influences that brain; of course you could argue that this is all a part of god's plan and that is fine, but you have to recognize that psychological and psychiatric therapies are available for people suffering from these problems. You have to at least give them the opportunity to get well. Yet the vast majority of churches have no psychiatrists or psychologists on staff. Even worse, these holy organizations tend to demonize psychiatric intervention, citing the particular holy text as discouraging medical interventions. Further, these organizations still hold the very wrong idea that homosexuality is a mental disorder, which is nothing more than Freudian nonsense that no modern health experts entertain (Freud argued that homosexuality was a case of arrested development due to anal retentiveness, basically arguing that homosexual people were under developed humans beings; needless to say, no evidence for this claim exist). We also hear of certain religions demonizing other forms of normal human behavior: masturbation, greed, hatred, jealousy, etc. While it is perfectly fine to make an argument for moderation on certain issues (I certainly would not want to dedicate all of my time to sex or jealousy for that matter), there is no case that can be made for any of the aforementioned feelings or actions being strictly wrong because we have no real control over what we desire or feel. Religion argues that we have complete control, that we can change anything as long as we wish it to be so. This has stigmatized seeking therapy so much that, in fact, one third of Americans' mental problems have been misdiagnosed.