This probably has little to do with her demons but looking at her neck she obviously has a thyroid goiter. This alone could cause many, many problems with development and growth. When your thyroid is not functioning or partially functioning this can wreak havoc on your body and emotions. Love this site.

WHEN I ACTUALLY DECIDED 2 READ BOUT SUCH CASE, I WAS SHOCKED....I HAD HEARD MANY STORIES BOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ANNELIESSE MICHEL, BUT I NEVER READ NOTHING LIKE THIS....ALTHOUGH, I ALWAYS KNEW THIS STORY WAS TRUE....

I really can't agree with what you wrote at the end of the text.

what if she really was possessed, and not suffering of any diseeses that doctors said she was suffering from?
and I really don't think she died of exorcism, she died of starvation.

I have to disagree with you on your diagose.

I believe Annaliese died from overdosage of medication which was not working in the first place. Many doctors have looked on her case after she died and have agreed that the doctors made stupid mistakes causing Annaliese's body more stress and exhaustion.

It is possible that demons possessed her, I believe that they did.

It's possible that she died of starvation, it's possible that the demons would not allow her to eat, anything truely is possible.

If you want a good insight on the exorcism read The Exorcism of Annaliese Michel by Anthropologist F. Goodman. Excellent book, and unbaised.

In furthur articles I hope you would stay away from insulting people's parents. Annaliese's parents did what they thought was right, and if my memory serves me right, in an exorcism the one being exorcised MUST agree to it, or it doesn't work. Annaliese agreed to it, agreed that she thought it was best for her as well.

Modern medicine doesn't cure everything.

Science and Faith often conflict. Both schools of thought tend to prefer to forsake the other. Science and faith exist together throughout the planet, ages and across cultures. But neither has ever been able to abolish or disprove the other. We see this in the classic argument regarding Evolution. The bible, a text that many accept as fact, gives us reason to discount the currently accepted scientific notion of how evolution - and thus mankind - came to be. We see the conflicts between Science and Faith quite often and people often choose a side.

It seems to me that the same conflict occured in the case of Michel. On one hand you have professioanls insisting on a course of remedy that relied solely on science. On the other you have the subject herself, her spiritual counsel, and her family siding with the concept of faith.

There is no doubt that given even the meager releases of Michel's medical file that she fits a 'mentally ill' label. Psychiatric illness is most often based upon the observation and expierience of deviant behaviour. This is often, but not always, accompanied by the notice of the subject. The vast majority of currently validated psychiatric illnesses are noticed and acknowledged by the subjects in question. There is a fair few times when this is not true.

If we consider for even a moment that the contents of the Bible and the 'lore' - if you will - that accompanies it within the 'faithful community' is fact, then upon review of Michel's case we would begin to make connections that would validate the liklihood of demonic possession.

We would see a girl behaving in ways that are disturbing and frightening, we would see the girl stating her own fears and understandings. If we accept the whole of what comprises the 'lore' of the faithful community we would begin to accept the possibility that Demonic Possesion was in all liklihood the culprit-cause of Michel's suffering.

If we forsake Faith in its entirety and examine the case through the spectacles of Science we see what many see; A very sick, disturbed young woman. We see a human being who suffered from a great psychological disturbance that regardless of whether she had attributed her expeiriences to a matter of the faithful lore or not would have kept her in a terrified state of extreme psychological and physical fear.

Faith proposes that Anneliese Michel suffered from a possible touch of 'evil'.

Science proposes that she suffered from an extreme psychological disturbance.

If we remove the possibilty of a Faith-fator in the case of Michel we would file her case away with the many cases of the psychological disturbed that have been improperly treated.

Michel's case is not unique. How it was handled is what has caused the fanfare of attention; The question evil, and there fore God.

Science and Faith have reconcile amongst one another, particularly in the aspect of the sick. Under no circumstances should Michel's medical treatment have been stopped, because under no circumstances can the faithful community discount the mortal evidence that suggested that 'SOMETHING' was physically wrong with Michel.

But would it have been beneficial to Michel to have gone on without acknowledging what she believed to be happening to her? Perhaps yes, perhaps not.

The facts of Michel's case are really quite simple. This girl died of bodily neglect and physical failure. This was caused by abberant behaviour and self-inflicted abuse, be it the denial of food or the act of physically harming herself.

Science tells us that she should have been hospitalized, and that the greatest reaches of psychological treatment should of perhaps been explored. But science was failing this Girl.Science did not help her anymore than the exorcisms did. Neither Science or Faith saved the life of this girl.

In a state of terror, stress and psychotic disturbance it is quite easy for one to see that a girl in such a state might begin - liek anyone - to try and understand what was happening to her. When Medicine failed it is not hard to understand why she might begin to consider other things.

For those of us that are not faithful there is little else for us to consider when we are suffering from psychological disturbance, or witnessing another suffer. But for those of us that believe in the backs of our heads that something else, something we do believe in, could be causing it...the conclusion of malicious supernatural effect is natural assumption in such dire, desperate circumstances.

Were Michels parents bad people? No. we're they uninformed? Perhaps. Did they try what THEY believed might have saved her? It seems they did.

This case leads the skeptics to say "IF faith hadn't gotten in the way she would have been cured." The probability of girl so extremely ill to recover is not liekly, and in the case of Michel her prognosis would not likely have been very good.

Whatever was wrong with Michel. It was severe. She may have died as the results of her beliefs, but the quality of life she would have had afterwards would perhaps have been worse.

All we can really say with certainty about the case of Michel is that she was Ill. Be that the cause of demons or psychiatric malfunction.

In all honesty. We know little facts about either phenomena.