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Desire to be a vessel of honor unto the Lord Jesus Christ?
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Anxiety, panic attacks, and depression.
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Explorer55
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BINGO!!! A great post! Before I was saved and as a late teen to early 20's I struggling to understand life, the horrible relationship between me and my Father, I was a total and complete mess! I struggled with alcohol and drugs, sometimes drinking up to a fifth of rum, vodka, a case of beer or whatever per day. Any drug that would get me high or deaden the pain I felt inside I took. It wasn't until the age of 22 or so when I came to the realization I needed God, in a VERY bad way! I became a Born Again Christian at age 22 but still struggled off and on with drugs and alcohol until receiving a complete and total deliverance from all that stuff by age 29. The "hole" I had in my heart, or the God shaped vacuum as some describe it was now filled with Christ, via the Holy Spirit. Now he sustains me, guides me, and directs me. "The Word" was what I had been searching for all along. And once I understood certain Biblical concepts the light bulbs began popping off in my head, my heart was healed, and here I am!
Explorer55
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"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." ~ 2 Timothy 1:7 KJV
Notice that, "sound mind" part...that phrase stuck out at me like a sore thumb when I first read it in the Bible. That is a Biblical concept and truth! If our mind is not sound...then that has not come from God! God gives us and makes our mind, "sound". Believe it, receive it.
Notice that, "sound mind" part...that phrase stuck out at me like a sore thumb when I first read it in the Bible. That is a Biblical concept and truth! If our mind is not sound...then that has not come from God! God gives us and makes our mind, "sound". Believe it, receive it.
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I was recently prescribed meds for social anxiety and obsessive thoughts. Haven't been on them a week yet, so we'll see how this goes.
I've had severe depression in the past, it's gone now, but for some it can last years or a lifetime.
I've had severe depression in the past, it's gone now, but for some it can last years or a lifetime.
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there's actually a rational, scientific basis to be -very- skeptical of psych drugs and labels. its not just some 1970s, radical chic stuff I decided to pull out on y'all, lol.
There's a book...Anatomy of an Epidemic...basically, the idea is this: psych drugs suppress -some- symptoms, for -some- people, with -some- degree of success....at a high cost. brain changes, straight up brain damage...the "antipsychotics" can make psychosis worse over time, the "antidepressants" can make what could have been a painful, one off episode into a chronic, lifelong condition, and the "anti-anxiety" drugs, especially the benzodiazepines (Valium, klonopin, xanax and friends...) can trigger dependence, straight up addiction, and tapering now and then causes -death-, often thru seizures.
im not saying that to scare you or anyone else. its just...well...i look over my existence, before Jesus saved (is saving, I pray will save me, now and in the world to come....), and I was a "mental patient," largely -because- of psychiatric "treatment." True story. I even had tardive dyskinesia (tics...usually in the face...mostly associated with tranquilizers/antipsychotics, but can also happen with antidepressants....), dead eyes, memory loss from shock 'treatments' (involuntary, not that it really matters...brain damage is brain damage, after all...), and then...
Jesus patched me up during a Pentecostal rehab program. Then I got genuinely saved (miracle!), and He's been good to "put off the old, put on the new," because...well...that's part of His work in His children's lives. Anyway...
I guess I"m saying that I'm no longer "antipsychiatry" in the anti-capitalist, 70s, kinda sense, nor in the libertarian, hyper-capitalist sense that Szasz was (no matter how much he denied it....) "antipsychiatry," but I am...
I am a Christian, and I think much of Mental Health, Inc. is anti-Christ, especially when the pills, shock 'treatments,' and various brain operations get involved. The "talking treatments" can be toxic, too, but they often work with the shrinks to destroy people.
I'll pray for you. I think...especially in modern culture, what Szasz correctly termed The Myth of Mental Illness lives on for a number of complicated, interrelated reasons...economic factors, social factors, the growing power of the medical establishment, a postmodern, post-Christian worldview, and...honestly...CONVENIENCE. Its easier and probably cheaper to pump money into psychiatry, even if you have to give some people disability (like...me, for now....), than it is to take a look at what's going on in these United States, in the world at large, in -human nature-, to make such distrubing and disturbed people. The pseudoscientific labels and jargon give "patients" a sort of "doctor's note" for sins and flaws, families get off the hook (oh, no...your behavior towards your kid did not contribute to this...its a BRAIN DISEASE...one day, your kid's brain just broke apart, and now she's crazy...here's some Seroquel....), and, at a larger level, it gets communities, society as a whole off the hook, too.
Jesus saves! Psychiatry...labels, subtracts, sedates, often destroys...its not a question of a couple bad shrinks or angry "mental patients..." the industry is basically all about control and destruction, especially when you start looking at hospitals, involuntary "treatment," and "severe mental illness," etc.
OK. ((off soap box now)).
There's a book...Anatomy of an Epidemic...basically, the idea is this: psych drugs suppress -some- symptoms, for -some- people, with -some- degree of success....at a high cost. brain changes, straight up brain damage...the "antipsychotics" can make psychosis worse over time, the "antidepressants" can make what could have been a painful, one off episode into a chronic, lifelong condition, and the "anti-anxiety" drugs, especially the benzodiazepines (Valium, klonopin, xanax and friends...) can trigger dependence, straight up addiction, and tapering now and then causes -death-, often thru seizures.
im not saying that to scare you or anyone else. its just...well...i look over my existence, before Jesus saved (is saving, I pray will save me, now and in the world to come....), and I was a "mental patient," largely -because- of psychiatric "treatment." True story. I even had tardive dyskinesia (tics...usually in the face...mostly associated with tranquilizers/antipsychotics, but can also happen with antidepressants....), dead eyes, memory loss from shock 'treatments' (involuntary, not that it really matters...brain damage is brain damage, after all...), and then...
Jesus patched me up during a Pentecostal rehab program. Then I got genuinely saved (miracle!), and He's been good to "put off the old, put on the new," because...well...that's part of His work in His children's lives. Anyway...
I guess I"m saying that I'm no longer "antipsychiatry" in the anti-capitalist, 70s, kinda sense, nor in the libertarian, hyper-capitalist sense that Szasz was (no matter how much he denied it....) "antipsychiatry," but I am...
I am a Christian, and I think much of Mental Health, Inc. is anti-Christ, especially when the pills, shock 'treatments,' and various brain operations get involved. The "talking treatments" can be toxic, too, but they often work with the shrinks to destroy people.
I'll pray for you. I think...especially in modern culture, what Szasz correctly termed The Myth of Mental Illness lives on for a number of complicated, interrelated reasons...economic factors, social factors, the growing power of the medical establishment, a postmodern, post-Christian worldview, and...honestly...CONVENIENCE. Its easier and probably cheaper to pump money into psychiatry, even if you have to give some people disability (like...me, for now....), than it is to take a look at what's going on in these United States, in the world at large, in -human nature-, to make such distrubing and disturbed people. The pseudoscientific labels and jargon give "patients" a sort of "doctor's note" for sins and flaws, families get off the hook (oh, no...your behavior towards your kid did not contribute to this...its a BRAIN DISEASE...one day, your kid's brain just broke apart, and now she's crazy...here's some Seroquel....), and, at a larger level, it gets communities, society as a whole off the hook, too.
Jesus saves! Psychiatry...labels, subtracts, sedates, often destroys...its not a question of a couple bad shrinks or angry "mental patients..." the industry is basically all about control and destruction, especially when you start looking at hospitals, involuntary "treatment," and "severe mental illness," etc.
OK. ((off soap box now)).
- May 22, 2012
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We actually talked about benzodiazepines at counseling, they are being prescribed less and less now and they usually try to treat anxiety with antidepressants now. Every resource I've looked up (as well as my counselors) also said that anxiety shouldn't be managed by meds alone, because the typical case is that the person loses any progress they made on their anxiety if they ever get off the meds. So CBT (sp?) and other therapy measures are recommended. I'm also going to a peer group several days a week, which is supposed good for anxiety as well.