But long-term, consistent application of stressors, either internal or external, can create a significant number of physiological or psychological disorders.

I mentioned ADHD, which seems to run around 50/50 (by most of the US studies I’ve seen) for home-life stress factors vs brain structural issues (only some of which are strictly genetic). Eating disorders in post-pubertal girls will, to a very high rate, have pre-existing throat, esophageal or stomach issues. (i.e. they’re actually malnourished going into puberty, which results in the potential body image issues)

Autism is a, generally, congenial neurological & physiological inflammation problem. Mostly clustered around 1-carbon metabolism. This is why vaccines highlighted the issues (the body isn’t capable of recovering from the sickness after the mother’s antibodies wear off). [Side point: Autistic children were, pre-1950, known as “weak constitutional”. That’s why there were a lot less. They all died before age 5 from communicable diseases.]

Fibromyalgia is a long-duration collapse of the body’s stress response systems, which eventually takes out enough of the immune system to allow a general collapse in physical state. The body isn’t capable of producing enough neurotransmitters after the collapse for various reasons.

PTSD is pretty much blowing out a specific part of the body’s stress response systems. That’s part of what makes it so hard to treat functionally. A lot of the rest of the body works just fine.

Now, this all was in the context of homosexuality. The Flesh wars with the Spirit. Temptations are different and have different power depending the state in which you find your body. Few in the modern world would think to kill for food. But if you starve someone for a few weeks, they’ll be more than tempted to kill for food. This is part of the reason that the temptation of Christ by the Devil, especially over food, is so impressive. No human could resist what the Devil tempted Jesus with.

That’s what I was getting at. Internal or external factors can bring a person to falling to specific temptations. And your last line sums it up really well. I’ll have to remember to use it in the future. “But when the society allows the worship of Cybele, the vulnerable will metaphorically castrate themselves.”

Now, if you are talking about meds, same again: you have to get fairly toxic. Which is why methamphetamine and LSD has been used therapeutically, and MDMA (estacy) may again be used.

I won’t go into the genetics too much further apart from this: the variation explained by Serotonin transporter gene is about one to three percent of the reasons why people get depressed. We thought we could find a few genes and it would all sort itself out. We are now doing GWACS using 20 -40K participants for things like psychosis.

In a similar way, there are multiple genes around attraction. In most societies, most people will follow a functional pattern. But when the society allows the worship of Cybele, the vulnerable will metaphorically castrate themselves.

Though the argument that Homosexuality is congenital or genetic is something I’ve always found funny. We know from Down’s Syndrome study that the Leftists would simply abort the child. As much as they talk a good game, when the “rubber meets the road”, they’ll want their “prefect” children. But it’s not like the Twin studies haven’t blown a hole in the thinking, nor the consistent issues with immune & endocrine systems among the self-described set. But self-deception is the only “truth” they have to hold onto, and hold onto it they will.

There is always a lot of people in our societies that need to be prayed for, as we all give into Sin, but some give into Sin with permanent consequences.