Mental health

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Carlyw said:
To my knowledge mental health is impacted by a factor of MANY many things.

Your body chemistry and hormonal balances, which can be affected by the time of month or what you've eaten, how much sleep youre getting, your stress levels and lifestyle

This isnt even considering our natural temperment, stress response, or how we've been raised/ the lies we've gotten conditioned to believe through the enemy's deceptive commentary on real life tragedies.

Also it's worth noting that some of the struggles we face can be caused by our own sin, though this isnt always the case.

These are my views

I believe in the natural and spiritual
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I say, thank you, God has got you in his love and mercy leading you, as you are willing, you see, whenever fighting it over any and all troubles, Father sits still and waits patiently. This truth over then I have learned as true, never leaving anyone or forsaking anyone as I have in past. I see to stand in dependence on Father in risen Son as I see you might too, everyone Wirth free choice to learn to not live like refugees
We want to be free, no one has to live like a refugee, God does that for us to see in thanksgiving and praise and love each other regardless
Is the call for us all, seen, revealed in the risen Son, not the dead one
 
BillG said:
I have suffered with severe generalized anxiety (GAD) now for 40 years.
I refused to go down the medication route and sought help with counselors is my church and it just got worse.

I could never understand why one day I did not have GAD then I did, I have always asked why did this happen?
It led to gambling addiction, alcohol addiction.

I gave up in the end seeking help.
I found no matter how many times i read the Bible verses, it made it worse.
I cried to God for so long but never heard anything.

To cut a long story short, last year I had a triple heart bypass surgery.
A few months after surgery my heart got so irregular and my blood pressure went SKU high again, that my meds were changed and I was given a machine on my arm for 24 hours to check my BP.

In the follow up my consultant noticed that my BP quite often spiked and asked about anxiety, I told him and he recommended I got help, either psychotherapy or medication.

I sought help and have had Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
After many sessions I was diagnosed with two types of attachment disorders (now working through that)

This was a result of severe childhood trauma.
From sexual abuse, to being thrown at at 14 by mum, my mum being divorced a few times, so called father figuers (foster one who sexually abused me) and my real dad beating my mother and more.

My therapist asked me what happened on that day my GAD started.

I was engaged to my girlfriend to get married, I didn't want to marry her because she cheated on my twice but for some reason I couldn't break it up.

We were sat in church one day and this is what I told my therapist.

"We will get married, have kids, get divorced and I would get to see my children at the weekend"

All of a sudden it felt like my stomach was ripped open and a million butterflies were put in my stomach and stiched up.

I ended the relationship.
I carried the guilt and shame of my thoughts.

For all of look life, before becoming a Christian and after a Christian I have never felt loved. After all why would you given what I went through.

As a Christian I feel that God does not love me, that I'm not good enough, if fail I'm gonna get a beating.

Therefore I find it very difficult to come to him and trust him.

What I now realise after the diagnosis and help with CBT I can understand why I react, the reason why and how deal with it.

Here is why think I can move forward.

My therapist identifed that I anticipate what is going to happen and it's the worst case scenario.

He tells me stay in the moment.

Then it suddenly hits me.
What did Jesus say?

Matthew 6:34
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

So to finish, I believe that therapy can help.

Not wishing to be horrible but to say to people with mental health issues to just read Bible verses and will help actually does not.

We need to get behind the reasons why people struggle with it, just like I did.
My upbringing was imprinted in my brain and as a result I did everything to protect myself and not open up to what I went through.

I trusted no one.

But now I feel hope.
I have now started asking God again to help me trust him and know how that he loves me, will never beat me and throw me out.
I am asking the Holy Spirit to work in me.

So please don't be like I was.
I was ashamed as a Christian to have mental health issues.
I spent 40 years rejecting help outside of church.

I think God hurts when his children struggle with it, when they cannot trust him.

And it doesn't bother me now if OUR FATHER uses people who are not Christian to understand what is causing the anxiety.

What we need to understand there were many greats in the Bible who struggled with anxiety and depression.

Hanna
Elijah
Job
David
Jonha
Jesus

Right now I'm gonna finish with the following.

I promised myself and asked God to help me not act and be what I was used to as a child and its consequences (that is why I was so ashamed of my thoughts about getting married when I was engaged before)

I have been married to my beautiful wife for 31 years.
We have 4 kids, all are Christians.
All know they are truly loved, fully accepted and safe in our love.
I thank God he granted me that, even in my darkest days.
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No one is alienated from troubles, no one. God does not ever cause troubles, never has, never will. Adam the first did that in not believing he would die if he ate, once, he saw Eve not die right away, so he ate too!
Now: note this truth: God did not kill either one of them, did God?
Now God took that first curse to be god as if God and took that away for us all to stand in Son as risen for us to love all, Christ, who revised the first curse from unbelief to Daddy, PaPa, Father, for us to be thankful in and learn new from Father daily in love and mercy to all also. since he did it first for us all 1 John 4
 
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homwardbound said:
No one is alienated from troubles, no one. God does not ever cause troubles, never has, never will. Adam the first did that in not believing he would die if he ate, once, he saw Eve not die right away, so he ate too!
Now: note this truth: God did not kill either one of them, did God?
Now God took that first curse to be god as if God and took that away for us all to stand in Son as risen for us to love all, Christ, who revised the first curse from unbelief to Daddy, PaPa, Father, for us to be thankful in and learn new from Father daily in love and mercy to all also. since he did it first for us all 1 John 4
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Thank you you became willing to learn truth from God over it all. Amen
 
Carlyw said:
To my knowledge mental health is impacted by a factor of MANY many things.

Your body chemistry and hormonal balances, which can be affected by the time of month or what you've eaten, how much sleep youre getting, your stress levels and lifestyle

This isnt even considering our natural temperment, stress response, or how we've been raised/ the lies we've gotten conditioned to believe through the enemy's deceptive commentary on real life tragedies.

Also it's worth noting that some of the struggles we face can be caused by our own sin, though this isnt always the case.

These are my views

I believe in the natural and spiritual
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Well said.
Ps I'm not affected by the time of the month:cool: I think
 
Crazyjmill said:
Could you possibly elaborate some more on spiritual? Does spiritual have to do with mental state? Does spiritual mean when we have the Holy Spirit in us? Do you perhaps know where in the Bible I can find more about the spirit? Thank you so very much for your help.
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Spiritual means of the spirit realm. God, angels, demons, and other kinds of entities inhabit the spiritual realm. Anything that involves any of those is inherently "spiritual" but may (and usually does) involve the physical realm as well. Emotions are part of the physical realm, though there is some connection between emotions and the spiritual realm.

Mental state is a combination of physiology and emotions. Presently, I am physically healthy and at rest, and emotionally calm. When I realized yesterday that a mistake in a project would cost me an hour or more of extra time, I was irritated and frustrated. That lasted all of two or three minutes.

The Holy Spirit is always present in every believer in Jesus Christ; there is no "when" about it (after salvation, that is). In the Bible, the Holy Spirit is mentioned more in the New Testament than in the Old, but there is much there as well. I recommend that you use a concordance to look up the context of every instance of "Spirit" in Scripture. I use BibleGateway, which provides the entire searchable Bible in many English versions and several other languages. Here's a link: BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages.
 
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Mental health issues can be due to many reasons. Pastor Rick Warren's son battled depression for many years and took his own life. It doesn't mean you are demon possessed. Can there be a spirit of infirmity? Sure, or your body and brain neuro chemistry is off.

At the end of the day its a disease, just like parkinson's, etc.
 
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GWH said:
Thus, every person who hears the NT Gospel needs to repent and accept God’s grace or justification in Jesus as Christ/Messiah the Lord or Supreme Commander (Luke 2:11, John 14:6, Acts 16:31), which means trying to obey His commandment to love one another (Matt. 22:37-40, John 13:35, Rom. 13:9)—forever (Matt. 10:22, Psa. 113:2).
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Thus, every person who hears the NT Gospel needs to repent and accept God’s grace or justification in Jesus as Christ/Messiah the Lord or Supreme Commander end Quote
I see, not needs so much as chooses to believe God over man, includes self or not. A willingness is in play, not a have to or better or else flesh nature attitude, as I see this amazing Love and mercy for us all to choose and not harm others as learn not to willingly from Father over self and others, thank you GWH
I appreciate your shares
 
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