Jinn (Shaitan) activity within mental illness

 "The idea of evidence-based medicine is difficult within mental health as a whole, although it's of course an aim that we should have," he says. "At the same time, we know that diagnoses in psychiatry are just a classification system. Even though you give a person a diagnosis of schizophrenia, you do not see any malfunction in the brain besides what you experience by engaging in a conversation with the person. You cannot see anything on the CT or the MRI images."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-56097028

David icke and Rastafarians - What they have in common ?

 From an Abrahamic perspective more specifically an Islamic one The Jinns, Shaitans (spirits and devils) are real.

Their role and effects on making people ill, suffering, temptation, magic and suicide is clear for anyone "in the know" or whose heart has been opened up.

What is interesting though that in Islam we have more specific details in terms of their (the devils) plan. That is to tempt people into the worship of Idols, creation, and the spirits themselves.

For brevity i will pick two people, David Icke and Rastafarians. 

David has symptoms associated with demonic contact (automatic writing, prescience, channeling, hallucinations etc.) which i have heard throughout his speeches,  Rastafarians smoke "weed" which as the Quran states "is the Handiwork of the Devil" similar to shamanic tribes and pagan ritual worship.

 Both call to pure paganism. One to the creation the other to a man.

 

response to a piece of research

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5882841/

" Among the various reasons for this, the main ones were the reluctance to discuss the possible role of jinn out of fear for metaphysical repercussions and stigma, and the possible mismatch with the interviewers, none of whom had a Muslim background. While we do advocate the involvement of non-Islamic professionals in studies such as these (if only to create opportunities for a growth of mutual understanding), we recognize that the employment of Muslim researchers might have resulted in a higher number of participants. A second limitation (which follows from the first) is that the numbers were too small for statistical analyses of relations between specific patient characteristics and the propensity to attribute mental health problems to jinn ..."

One thing i would say to this piece of ressearch. Your interviewers should first immerse yourself in the undesrtaning ot the Djinn beforehand. Nothing like Good prepration which might solve your dogamtic, simplisitic, mechanistic attitude to life.