Will DEFINITELY pray for you and Pam. Am going thru the same thing right now with our son who is living with us. Emotion (mental) illness is one thing NOT understood by the Christian community.
It seems that every illness BELOW the neck is physical and accepted BUT any trouble ABOVE the neck
is a SPIRITUAL PROBLEM. The brain isn't considered an organ--like the liver!
There was years of prolems in my family with my mother being a textbook manic/depressive and my father being a minister! If Mom was a diabetic and had to take insulin shots everything would have been o.k. but when the brain organ goes awry and psychotropic medicines are involved then PRAYER only was the cure for her spiritual condition. Faith--was supposed to be lacking!
Luckily, GOD gave my father courage to stop the psychiatrists, who were very angry at him, from giving my mother a frontal lobatomy-thinking at the time that was the answer to her mental illness. Ofcourse,
we know now that it would have made a "vegetable" out of her--and the practice was stopped.
So, my prayers are definitely with you==and thank God they have miracle drugs these days. Duane
So True Duane,
When you break your Arm, that's pretty well cut in stone & a simple procedure, no sweat & everyone understands that. When it comes to Mental Illness, they(the experts) don't surely know. Is it Hormones, Your rotten childhood, the abusive first Husband, the Endocrine System, Low blood sugar, a Chemical imbalance, the Wicked World, etc. Everybody usually asks: What caused this or How did this happen. There were many possible Causes or factors, but not one single isolated cause.
Duane, If My Wife tells me one more time that She thinks I'm going to leave Her or She's sorry She's such a burden(Codependent No More), I'll bop her on the head, only kidding, just venting,
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Thanks for Your input & My empathy towards the difficulties with your Son. Yes, that label of a Spiritual problem is a notorious claim of JW'S, shame on someone who says that with their poisonous, venomous mouth.
Jas 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Jas 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Jas 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
Jas 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Jas 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Jas 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Jas 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Thanks, Samson.
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