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For over forty years Darwin suffered intermittently from various combinations of symptoms such as: malaise, vertigo, dizziness, muscle spasms and tremors, vomiting, cramps and colics, bloating and nocturnal intestinal gas, headaches, alterations of vision, severe tiredness, nervous exhaustion, dyspnea, skin problems such as blisters all over the scalp and eczema, crying, anxiety, sensation of impending death and loss of consciousness, fainting, tachycardia, insomnia, tinnitus, and depression.
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severely debilitated for long periods of time, incapable of normal life and intellectual production, staying in bed most of the time for months. Charles Darwin wrote, "Constant attacks...makes life an intolerable bother and stops all work."
Darwinian scholar Michael Ruse even concluded that "Darwin himself was an invalid from the age of 30" (2003, p. 1523)
George Pickering, in an extensive study of Darwin's illness, concluded that in his early thirties, Darwin became an "invalid recluse" (1974, p. 34). UCLA School of Medicine Professor Dr. Robert Pasnau (1990, p. 123) noted that Darwin also "remained ill almost continually" for the entire five years that he was on his HMS Beagle trip.
Darwin suffered from several serious and incapacitating psychiatric disorders, including agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is characterized by fear of panic attacks (or actual panic attacks) when not in a psychologically safe environment, such as at home. Darwin, as is common among agoraphobiacs, also developed many additional phobias—being in crowds, being alone, or leaving home unless accompanied by his wife (Kaplan and Sadock, 1990, pp. 958-959).
Agoraphobia is also frequently associated with depersonalization, a malady that Darwin also suffered (Barloon and Noyes, 1997, p. 138). A study of Darwin's mental condition by Barloon and Noyes concluded that Darwin suffered from anxiety disorders that so severely impaired his functioning that it limited his ability to leave his home, even just to meet with colleagues or other friends.
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Darwin's behavior also indicates that he suffered from a mental disorder. Although devoted to his wife and daughters, he "treated them as children" even after his daughters were fully grown (Picover, 1998, p. 289)
Originally posted by warpcrafter
No thanks, I don't want any of your koolaid. My life is completely without any of that spiritual crap and yet I am mysteriously free of any depression or other mental malady. When I want a little boost of happiness, I go to Hardees. Maybe they bless the burgers?
:lolidn't think so.....
Originally posted by phi1618
Originally posted by warpcrafter
No thanks, I don't want any of your koolaid. My life is completely without any of that spiritual crap and yet I am mysteriously free of any depression or other mental malady. When I want a little boost of happiness, I go to Hardees. Maybe they bless the burgers?
:lolidn't think so.....
you should meditate then more the reason, think of what your capable of
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Because spiritually inclined people like myself are too frequently vilified as mentally ill, stupid, deluded I am happy to retort with this piece on the father of Evolution Theory and one of the fathers of modern materialism ("science") and atheism.
Lets instead take a mentally ill persons word for it that humans came about as a matter of coincidence and that a humans Consciousness does not .
Originally posted by Maddogkull
Maybe I am misinterpreting. But are you trying to say his theories of evolution are not true, because he was mentally ill?
Originally posted by DeReK DaRkLy
The concept of evolution doesn't contradict the idea that we are all made of energy or whatever... it simply illustrates how that energy is used.
Originally posted by anglodemonicmatrix
Those that the Gods do not like they destroy just ask Steven Hawking.
Originally posted by mothershipzeta
Perhaps in the future you shouldn't stoop to the tactics of your enemies.
When you respond to personal attacks by making one of your own, you can make no claims to the superiority of your argument.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
I can have a blast holding a mirror up to those who throw around words such as "mentally ill" to describe spiritual people.
Originally posted by anglodemonicmatrix
Those that the Gods do not like they destroy just ask Steven Hawking.