8 to 80, Blind Crippled or Crazy?

This cliche' means everybody should get this: In whatever condition you find yourself, you should be able to get this. Even if, as may be the case, you are crazy.
People often say that they have been delivered and kept from mental illness. But, God can and does allow and permit breaks and even mental dimentia and He is still present and GOOD. I think that He allows this to show us that there is only one condition on the earth, where He is not present at all. That is the condition of Hell. The condition of Hell is mental illness unmixed with the presence of a merciful God in hospital care: unmixed with human compassion, as a finger of God in your grief and pain. God is everywhere in time and space, but, if we are untouched by the changing grace of Jesus and choose to go into eternity in our pride and sin, we will know the consuming presence of the wrath of God unmixed with mercy.
God has preserved His wrath for the unrepentant, the devil and his delegation. Not at all a fun place. When someone sees the perceptions of his or her mind unable to be trusted, as in mental illness, that is a close perception of the mental agonies of Hell. Where is God, when I pray in that condition? I question. He is still present, in the sunshine that comes through the window. He is still merciful that there are people who care and keep you from jumping: to jump from the frying pan into the fire. To solidify the condition of your mind into the condition of your soul and body.
The devil came to Jesus and said, cast yourself down. Christian people distance themselves from the conditions of illnesses of mind and soul, adding insult to injury, more often than not. The God of compassion came across the sea to deliver the Gadarene, in spite of the concessions of the people to this demonic presence in their midst. They enjoyed the seclusion of being separated from the world by a demoniac, kept like an attack dog or expensive taxes to keep the riff, raff out. God is about deliverance and compassion to those who have been afflicted by such a state. He cares, when all of the rest of the world looks with antipathy.