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12.20
Messiah syndrome and mental illness
 
  Upon closer inspection a case can be made that Messiah syndrome account for sixty percent of mental illness that manifests after childhood.  
  Apart from the hundreds of thousands of people clinically diagnosed as suffering messiah beliefs, traces of the effect of the messiah syndrome can be seen in people suffering paranoid delusion, schizophrenia, narcissism, bi-polar (manic-depressive) and body-image disorders.  
  In virtually all of these cases, the inability to treat and cure the effects of the messiah syndrome as well as reflected chemical in balances can explain general poor levels of mental rehabilitation.  
12.20.1 Clinical analysis  
  The most obvious causal link between the messiah syndrome and mental illness is those people who claim to be messiahs, gurus, shamans.  
  In some cultures, these people are permitted to practice and are revered. In modern western cultures, individuals outside of a strong support base are often institutionalized.  
  In The United States and leading western countries, there exists today tens of thousands of people institutionalized who believe themselves to be the Messiah.  
12.20.2 Schizophrenia  
  In recent years much has been done to seek to define and de-mystify the mental illness of Schizophrenia It is now understood that there are a wide variety and deeper levels of affliction of schizophrenia from mild (belief in hearing voices) to severe (separate personality disorder).  
  At the heart of the disease are forces within the mind seeking to keep the mind separate and in conflict. This is the tell tale signature of the Messiah syndrome.  
  Supporting the argument of the existence of the messiah syndrome as part of the primary cause of schizophrenia is the relationship between the illness and the mental behaviour of the person affected.  
  The disease often only emerges after the teenage years.  
12.20.3 Narcissism/sociopathy  
  The sociopath, the narcissist who locks himself or herself away from the world is a classic example of the messiah syndrome in manifestation.  
  The most frustrating problem for psychologists studying sociopathic serial killers is not how different they are, but how normal their routine interaction and behaviour.  
  What has never been fully understood is that the sociopath is by their nature narcissistic and within themselves– messiah of their own universe and at will, a god with the power over life and death. The Messiah syndrome does not manifest itself in these people in the form whereby they believe themselves to be Jesus Christ, but usually that they are masters of their own universe.  
12.20.4 Bipolar (manic depression)  
  The manic depressive is someone who when they are up can change the world and when they are down, a shadows in the corner of a darkened room. In recent years, the disease has been given the name "bipolar".  
  A common trait of bipolar as a more active than "normal" internal voice. This is sometimes also described as imagination. Virtually every great scientist, poet, painter, musician, sculptor, genius and inventor that has ever lived and who has ever been recognized have also been diagnosed with bipolar.  
  Such correlations is rarely publicly discussed except in oblique references such as "mad scientist" or "artistic behaviour".  
  There is amply evidence to suggest that the messiah syndrome is a major factor if not the driving factor behind bipolar disorder.  
 
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