Is it clear that recent years have shown an increase in mental health issues such as depression. There is also a massive increase in people being diagnosed with things such as ADD, ADHD, ODD, many other acronyms, as well as Asperger's syndrome and the fairly recent conclusion that autism is a 'spectrum' that we are all on at some point.
Perhaps we have just managed to come up with more names to label the behaviour of various people (especially as it is now considered offensive and politically incorrect to call someone 'retarded', a 'delinquent' or an 'idiot'), or perhaps there is a reason behind it - an inconvenient reason, given the state of modern British society.
Scientists are slowly convincing the Western world that they have (or, are developing) the answers and understanding to everything pertaining to life on earth. Religions are more commonly being described as primitive belief systems, for people with limited understanding (some staunch atheists thrive off such name-calling).
However, could it be that since 'tampering with the supernatural', such as playing with ouija boards and tarot cards, has now been described as innocent and harmless play (by those very same academically advanced 'professionals'), their effects are no longer being treated in the correct manner?
'Primitive' peoples would look to witch doctors or spiritualists if there was something happening in their life that they couldn't understand. In earlier Christian societies, people would turn to the priests for deliverance from the negativity they encounter.
But now, in an age where spirituality is increasingly brushed off as nonsense, we are seeing an increase in mental and behavioural disorders...
To top it off, churches and other religious gatherings can be subject to accusations of preying on the weak and needy when people with such disorders search for spiritual help with their problems. In other words, the very people needing spiritual help/deliverance are prevented from such treatment due to the accusations and assumptions of people who believe such things to be nonsense.
Some people would even go so far as to calling such help a form of 'brainwashing', despite such people having essentially 'brainwashed' society into believing that spirituality is just nonsense.
The irony is that 'serious academics' wouldn't 'tarnish' their career by properly researching the possibility of such connections, and anyone who would dare to put forward research which would suggest such a connection would be labelled as unprofessional or a supporter of 'pseudoscience'.
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