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frumnotyeshivish
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Matan1, your words: “If someone if suffering from depression, anxiety, OCD or any other mental illness, it is completely and entirely irresponsible and dangerous to think that the root of the problem is spiritual.”

Responsibility and danger aren’t what we are discussing. We are discussing truth and reality. No one said that the above problems are necessarily spiritually rooted. You said (or at least implied) that they are necessarily not. If responsibility were an issue I’d call that irresponsible. Because it isn’t the issue, I’ll just call it presumptuous. How on earth could you know that in all cases of depression and anxiety the root of the issue is not spiritual? You would need a huge amount amount of scientific and spiritual knowledge for that proclamation. I’ll [attempt to] save you the effort of trying to persuade me of your scientific knowledge by informing you that you do not have enough.

“There is no heresy in clinical psychology. It’s all about helping people. I[f] that’s apikorsus, then I give up.”

Your point is meaningless. Imagine if someone said “There is no heresy in the Catholic Church. It’s all about helping people. If that’s apikorsus, then I give up.” You’d laugh them out of the building because they did nothing to address the subject matter of what either is or isn’t heresy.