[MEGoody]

The Amish are so repressed, possibly causing one of their mentally ill to go crazy.

The rates of depression and mental illness among the Amish is far lower than among the 'English' as they call us.

[sasha123]

That is interesting information.

[muawiyah]

Bet the rates are very much the same ~ the causes are physical/chemical and not spiritual.

The "reported rates" are a different matter ~ I have a problem with the Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born because they don't use doctors (except to set broken bones); some, but not all, Plain Church people can have a similar problem. Even worse, some of the First Born actually live in Amish communities, dress like the Amish, live like the Amish, but keep their own separate customs ~ very strange bunch.

They also don't have the pacifist standards of the Amish.