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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
I may just be a case of those who claim of always being "attacked" or persecuted by demons are the ones who are always telling those about it, thus you always hear them and not the more rational people who realize that life is sometimes just life.
As far as depression goes, I have suffered from it literally my whole life (OK, from age 12 to the present). Sometimes it is sever and other times is is more mild but it is always present. Always. Now I am NOT bi-polar in that I am not depressed a couple of days then experience a day of being absolutely high and giddy. It also doesn't mean I am never happy -on the contrary, I have many good days and DO have fun, it is just that the depression never completely goes away. So I consider myself to have a certain psychological insight into people who don't suffer any sort of depression and then when they DO get the "blah's" they attribute it to some sort of demonic attack.
But, as Captain Kirk told Spocks brother "I need my pain" (coincidentally in the same move that the quote in my signature if from). My continual depression, while rarely fun, has shaped my personality for a reason. I believe I am skeptical when I need to be as well as being able to help others when the only advice they get is "You just need to pray through!".
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I listened to a cassette tape made from the book that I believe was based off of that movie. That's the one where they travel to the galactic core to meet 'God'.
I am not going to criticize, because I have been there myself. However, I do not believe in medicating what seems to be a fairly normal condition. If I had to guess, I would say that you are a bit of a perfectionist, and many things in life do not meet your standards (oops
). That is only a supposition, but you sound more like you simply have a melanocholy temperment with a slightly gloomy disposition.
I am disgusted by the 'medical profession' constantly seeking to diagnose everyone in the United States with a 'disorder'. I see too many boys being placed on drugs because they have short attention spans and need to be active. There is a diagnoses for that normal boy behavior! There are a few that truly have ADD/ADHD, but most of them are simply being boys. Further, with proper training and incentives, almost all of the ADD/ADHD children can function without medicine.
(I can be easily distracted, but in my job, security, that is actually a good thing most of the time.)
I guess that I have not had much love for the medical community since I was a very young child. I was so bad that I would not even speak to doctors, and when I finally spoke to one who I saw a lot, he was floored. Well, my opinion over all has not changed very much, and I do not go to the 'houses of healing' unless under great duress, and then I will often feel put upon.
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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
Matt, in the line of work I do, I could say that easily over 50% of the people coming to see the doctor who even just mention they are anxious, tired, not sleeping well, feeling down... are immediately prescribed a medication for that, and mental disease is very seldom the issue, solely emotions.
This is a very dangerous practice.
The US as a whole is overmedicated, and I do believe that people suffering from mental illness is a very real medical thing, but not everyone suffering from anxiety, or even depression has a medical illness requiring medication.
There is power for healing of the MIND, as welll as the body in Christ Jesus. Thank you Matt for pointing this out.
And now... to get back to the original topic of witchcraft.... to be continued  |