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To: Cvengr

You’ve obviously never experienced exented PSTD or Complex PSTD.

While faith is a incredible foundation, stress disorders are reactions to worldly existence and require intervention.

Faith alone doesn’t health a toothache.


12 posted on 10/22/2011 4:50:58 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny; Cvengr
You’ve obviously never experienced exented [sic] PSTD [sic] or Complex PSTD [sic].

While faith is a incredible foundation, stress disorders are reactions to worldly existence and require intervention.

Faith alone doesn’t health a toothache.


Your error is putting toothache and PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) into the same category. A toothache is organic in nature. PTSD is psychic in nature. A toothache is caused by pressure on a nerve. It is something you directly experience. PTSD is not caused by something you experienced. It's caused by your reaction to something you experienced. That reaction is conditioned by your previous experiences and your understanding of them in the context of your entire life experience and belief structure. An experience that may lead to a PTSD for one person may have little or no effect on another for reasons having nothing at all to do with the event in question. The same is not true of a toothache. A cavity producing enough pressure on a nerve will have the same effect on anyone regardless of a person's beliefs and previous life experience.

This is why a person's faith (because it is directly related to his beliefs about reality and his experiences within it and what they ultimately mean or do not mean) is more likely to be of help in PTSD than in a toothache.
16 posted on 10/22/2011 5:26:42 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Psycho_Bunny
While faith is a incredible foundation, stress disorders are reactions to worldly existence and require intervention. Faith alone doesn’t health a toothache.

Faith alone through Christ alone, while applying Bible doctrine in the soul allows the believer to respond rather than react, which is a far greater healing than another person's intervention.

Worse than an intervention, is another person attempting to heal by substituting their intervention as a counterfeit substitute for what God provides.

29 posted on 10/23/2011 1:33:37 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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