Oh yes we do. We call it an illness.

I hope this helps clear that up a bit for you.

She has given the rosary of the Seven Sorrows , as remedy for personaliy disorders , which are considered as rather incurable ..yet , the sense of oneness brough on through such mediations help human hearts to heal , from the sense of abandonment and hatreds that linger ..to know that a Mother was allowed to go through such, for our sake – to know that She understands and is there , in the strenght of The Spirit , to pour out that Spirit , into our hearts ..
True, when it comes to major psychiatric disprders where the person is a risk to self or others , meds can be helpful ..

yet , the better collaboration of faith based treatments , such as esp. readings of the word ..may be the Lamenations , pslams book of Job .. holy chants , exorcism prayers ..hopefully an area that would continue to evolve , to bring the Peace that The Lord promised as His gift !

Mary,

It seems to me, from one perspective at least, what is a pathogen and what is a disease are judgment calls, just as it is not all that easy to decide whether some people with atypical behavior should be called mentally ill. A lot of attention is being paid recently to the “human biome”—the 10 trillion microorganisms that live on and in the human body and outnumber human cells 10 to 1. The human body is massively “infected” with microorganisms, some of which may be partly beneficial and partly detrimental. How do we decided which “infections” constitute “diseases”? Some microorganisms may be entirely beneficial, some may be entirely harmful, but some may have both beneficial and harmful effects.

It also depends on whose perspective you take. A cold is miserable for you, but it is a great opportunity for the cold virus to reproduce and thrive, which is what it’s “supposed” to do.

As for mental illness, who is to say that someone who is mildly bipolar and extremely productive in the manic phase has a “disease”? Or who would say that someone who is extraordinarily cheerful and optimistic in bad times is diseased even if it turns out their brain chemistry is the opposite of that of a depressed person?

Of course, by the same token, would that take in any disease not caused by a pathogen? Severe allergic reactions — it’s their immune system, who’s to say its ferocious attack on some harmless substance is not normal?

“…modern man no longer communicates with the madman [...] There is no common language: or rather, it no longer exists; the constitution of madness as mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, bears witness to a rupture in a dialogue, gives the separation as already enacted, and expels from the memory all those imperfect words, of no fixed syntax, spoken falteringly, in which the exchange between madness and reason was carried out. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.”