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Why does God allow mental illnesses to exist ?

Scoutship

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My late dad thought I was round the bend..:)
As a kid I overheard him say to my mam about me- "He's nutty! No don't laugh, I really do mean it, he wastes all his pocket money on silly plastic model aeroplanes then hangs 'em on string from his bedroom ceiling in full view of the street, I dread to think what the neighbours are saying about him."
Perhaps he'd have preferred me to join the local street gang and run riot with them instead of sitting quietly up in my room building models?
He's been dead now 40 years and I still buy models, I've currently got my eye on this beauty down the model shop..:)-

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We have the physical remains of a teenage male, most likely homo habilis or early homo erectus, dating back 1.5 to 1.8 million years ago, who died of a toothache. That's millions of years before the first modern humans. Sickness does not appear to have come into being only recently.
 
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What benefits do mental health issues give ? I think absolutely nothing.
I think the times we live in.. we have come so far from the original bodies Adam had. And sin, sometimes. If God wants, he can heal. sometimes he uses it for a higher purpose. I come to think of Paul`s torn in the flesh. when all that is said, I once spoke to a therapist her husband was a therapist and he had severe mental health issues, he said he managed his condition by a clean diet mostly organic, and vegetables. It made a huge difference to the point he did not have to have meds
 
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