“Are you really sure you want to start tyhis game up again?”
You have no idea.
Your ideas on mental health are reckless and irresponsible and I hope that those who are reading this and are questioning their mental status do have the grace given to them to go to a mental health professional, preferrably a psychiatrist with a family practice or internal medicine background to be diagnosed and treated.
Eternity will reveal
which of us has more
rescued, redeemed, made whole, restored, healed
lives, psyche’s, emotions, relationships, Christian walks
as a result of our respective perspectives on mental health, unhealth as well as on Christian living.
I’m blessed by how God has used me the last 30+ years in such regards.
I’m not sure why so many supervisors sent me their most difficult cases. I only know it happened on 2 continents and that God enabled amazing results.
I suppose you would also castigate Thomas Szaaz?
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition) by Thomas S. Szasz
Defining disease: the gold standard of disease versus the fiat standard of diagnosis.: An article from: Independent Review
He has a lot of good research to back up his very professional assertions.
I don’t know that I’d go as far as he goes. Yet he makes many very good, accurate, valid points.
I find your assumptions very flawed in this subject area.
You seem to be trying to make my perspective out to be absurd.
Thankfully, I and many hundreds of clients know better. And Thousands of students know better. Certainly God knows better.