Talk:Monster Girl Encyclopedia World Guide III: Sabbath Grimoire/@comment-45424649-20200904141721/@comment-10429980-20200905151800

Well a mental illness tends to involve some kind of "malfunction" in the brain, a imbalance of chemicals, etc. It's not really part of your personality, i.e. you're still you even if you take medication that restores the chemical balance. Take me, I take prozac, and as far as I am concerned the me that is not hindered by obsessive thoughts or behaviors is the "real" me, or raher it allows me to be more of my self rather than less. I can still be detail-oriented and obsess a bit, but not to a harmful degree.

So no, I don't think magic that fixes something that is wrong with your brain counts as brainwashing, it's not altering you so much as restoring your brain to a healthier state.