Mental Illness

[martin frobisher]

I find it sad that this thread has devolved into drug-users..and drug peddlers...attacking a Christian for saying that relief from mental illness could be found in seeking God.

I find it incredibly sad that someone can distort things so badly - but there you go

Feel free to make whatever lies you like. Don't let the truth get in the way of your argument.

If you can find anywhere that someone has attacked anyone for saying that relief from mental illness could be found in seeking God, point it out. You can't, because no one has.

You're a liar.

As for the despicable act of labelling people who need drugs for mental health problem as "drug-users"

[Massorite]

I believe that most, if not all, mental illness is a product of chemical imbalance or injury in the brain. I think it is vital to get to a facility or medical doctor to observe and make a diagnosis. Depression is common and can be medically treated. So can many other chemical imbalances.

I agree but I also believe that some like schizophrenia are actually demon possesion.

[Scarletprayers]

I find it sad that this thread has devolved into drug-users..and drug peddlers...attacking a Christian for saying that relief from mental illness could be found in seeking God.

I find it sad, and insulting that you and Charitow are trying to make people feel they aren't good Christians because they take medication. Since neither one of you are Doctors doesn't it worry you, trying to give medical advice about something you know absolutely nothing about and have no training for? What if somebody went off their meds because of something you said and hurt themselves or someone else, oh wait, that wouldn't be YOUR fault, they just didn't believe enough, right?

[martin frobisher]

...not to mention the potential legal liability for the board if anyone advises someone to stop taking prescribed medicines!

[Guest man]

I find it sad that this thread has devolved into drug-users..and drug peddlers...attacking a Christian for saying that relief from mental illness could be found in seeking God.

No ones attacking anyone here.

The comment was made, "all mental illness comes from satan.", and I don't believe that to be true.

You might believe it, but I don't.

You can always tell when someone has nothing constructive to say...........they resort to name calling.

[Believer1997]

I believe that most, if not all, mental illness is a product of chemical imbalance or injury in the brain. I think it is vital to get to a facility or medical doctor to observe and make a diagnosis. Depression is common and can be medically treated. So can many other chemical imbalances.

I agree but I also believe that some like schizophrenia are actually demon possesion.

I worked with someone (a doctor) for many years who treated people with various mental illnesses like schizophrenia and all of them that I ever saw were treated with medication and they recovered as long as they took the medication. They were able to function and have jobs, work and think clearly. When they felt confident that they were 'well' and went off the medications - the symptoms unfortunately, returned. I cannot say that I've ever seen anyone that I really thought was possessed by demons. I have met someone before who I believe was the absolute epitome of evil - I'm quite sure he was truly evil.

I am sure that there have been instances where people were possessed by demons - the Bible tells us that. I just have never seen one.

[martin frobisher]

Amen, Believer!

It's funny how the people who are actually in a position to know about mental illness hold one position, and the people who are armchair psychiatrists/psychologists hold another.

That alone should tell the impartial observers which version is most likely to reflect the reality.

I've seen someone try and exorcise a post-ictal epileptic, because they didn't understand that you should leave someone who has a seizure to rest. Ignorance of the facts leads to accepting at face value the theories of some activists who are firmly opposed to science and medicine.

Edited June 5, 2009 by martin frobisher

[Scarletprayers]

Well I'm not in the field, but my son is bi-polar so I've learned "under the gun" so to speak!

[martin frobisher]

Well I'm not in the field, but my son is bi-polar so I've learned "under the gun" so to speak!

Your experience is worth any number of textbooks!

I should have said, there are plenty of "expert patients" and "expert family" out there, whose expertise I would bow to.

I used to get quite angry with medical colleagues who had no empathy for the mentally ill, due to my experiences growing up with my schizophrenic father.

[Axxman]

I find it sad, and insulting that you and Charitow are trying to make people feel they aren't good Christians because they take medication. Since neither one of you are Doctors doesn't it worry you, trying to give medical advice about something you know absolutely nothing about and have no training for? What if somebody went off their meds because of something you said and hurt themselves or someone else, oh wait, that wouldn't be YOUR fault, they just didn't believe enough, right?

I hope you could take the time to show me where I have said ANYTHING about a person's Christianity in this thread. My comments have been directly on the flawed system that runs the industry. You also have NO IDEA my experience in this area.

The psychiatric industry is a close 2nd place to the abortion industry in terms of immorality and destruction of human life, imo.