Mental Health and Christianity: Myths and Realities
Explore the intersection of mental health and Christianity, addressing misconceptions and truths about how individuals of faith can experience various emotional and mental challenges. From differentiating between mental ill-health and diagnosable mental illnesses to examining biblical references, this content dives into the complexities of mental well-being within a spiritual context.
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Can born-again, Spirit-filled, Jesus-loving, life-purposed Christians experience serious emotional and mental illness? Yes 3
Mental Ill-health Nothing that is clearly wrong, but persons whine, complain, avoid, explode in anger, fight, curse, & do self-destructive behaviors. 4
Mental Illness Diagnosable condition: disrupts a person s thoughts, moods, behaviors and ability to relate, severe enough that it requires treatment or they are not able to function. 5
Mental Illness 20% - 1in5 US residents experienced some form of mental illness in 2018 5-6% - 1in17 experienced serious mental illness in 2018 (11-14 million) 6
Serious Mental Illnesses Anxiety Disorders Clinical/Major Depression Schizophrenia Bi-polar/Manic-Depressive
Bible & Mental Illnesses Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 4:28-34 King Saul 1 Sam 16:14-15 Jeremiah Jer. 20:14-18
Psalm 42 Vs. 3 Tears & despair Vs. 4 Distant memory Vs. 5 What is happening? Vs. 7 Constant turmoil Vs. 9 Where are you God? Vs. 5 & 11 Faith and hope
Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his familyheard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, He is out of his mind. And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons. Mark 3:20-22
The ideal is for medical and spiritual healers to cooperate. Each needs the diagnosis ability of the other. 11
World War II Volunteer C.O. Work 12
Word to those living with mental illness SPIRITUAL Jesus: God s love, God s win. PHYSICAL Good doctor, good medicine. MENTAL Talk and teaching therapy. RELATIONAL Loving human connections.
Word to the congregation The body is a unit, though it is made up of many members; and though all its members are many, they form one body. If one member suffers, every member suffers with it; if one member is honored, every member rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a member of it. 1 Cor. 12:12, 26-27
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
