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[tbpew]

Rhoni,
I am certainly not surprised by your response.

I am also confident that you will continue down your understanding of symptom management.

I prefer to be open to explore and receive understanding pertaining to "cause and effect".

I make no assertion of presently having any divinely-sourced understanding.

If you believe that God has purposed to bless people by ingesting Lithium carbonate as symptom management from within the human chemistry, I would have to part company with your view.

At what point should one be careful not to UNDER-spiritualize physical symptoms? Considering that every thing that is seen originates from that which is not seen.

[Rhoni]

tbpew,

Many on here know me and also know that I am a woman of faith and prayer. I believe in Divine Healing because I am a recipient of God's grace in this area. God healed me physically, mentally, and emotionally. Jehoveh Raphe is the God I serve.

There are many things I don't understand...some of which is why some are healed and others are not. This pertains to physical, mental, and emotional healing. The Lord chooses not to heal some instantaneously but gradually over time, some not at all. The Bible tells us some sickness is unto death. We know we all must die.

I believe many symptoms of mental illness are caused by sin. Maybe not the sin of the individual sufferring but as a result of somone's sin against them, the transgenerational sins in the family, or the inherent sin that we are all born into because of the sin of the first man Adam.

I thank God all the time for his blessings on me and my family. With that said. I thank God for truths that are found in the medical field that prolong our lives, such as the discovery of penecillin. How many of us would have died had God not provided knowledge to a man to discover a cure and prolong our lives?

I thank God for the advancements in the area of Obstetrics and Gynecology which found that by undergoing a cesearian section a baby's life could be saved from a cord being wrapped around it's neck and the life of the mother and child when there is a breech birth.

I thank God for surgical methods that made my life possible when I sufferred several times a year from strep throat and could not gain any weight...that a tonsilectomy fixed the problem.

I thank God for the trauma surgery that knit my bones back together after a car accident that crushed my legs and took my hip out of socket. I thank God for the corrective surgery to my eye that repaired the eyelid that was hanging over my eye and kept me from seeing at my best. I thank God for the corrective surgery that repaired an open wound to my stomache that would not heal and caused marked disfiguration.

I thank God that I have been able to take a thyroid medication to keep me up and going instead of faint and sluggish so that I can keep a job and support myself.

I thank God for an anti-depressant that kept my family member from suffering from post-partum depression and helping her to get through rough times to a better place off of the medication and functioning at a normal level.

I thank God for the insulin my grandmother took to keep her alive 25 years after diagnosed with Diabetes. I thank God for the radiation treatment that my grandmother needed to shrink the tumor that threatened to claim her life from cancer.

I thank God for the Lithium my friend takes to enable her to have a good life, raising her children, and enjoying her grandchildren, and preserving her marriage when the effects of BiPolar and Adult ADHD threatened to destroy all her relationships.

God is good and I thank him for all the Truths that he has allowed his people to discover to help us live long and fulfilling lives until the day he calls us home.

Blessings, Rhoni

[tbpew]

Rhoni,

In your personal (first-person) experience, have you ever witnessed God's compllete deliverence involving a person who you clinically witnessed as formerly exhibiting from all the symptoms of a bi-polar neurosis?

If you have, was there a spiritual ministry involved or was it strictly within the private faith of the individual?

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by tbpew

Rhoni,

In your personal (first-person) experience, have you ever witnessed God's compllete deliverence involving a person who you clinically witnessed as formerly exhibiting from all the symptoms of a bi-polar neurosis?

If you have, was there a spiritual ministry involved or was it strictly within the private faith of the individual?

tbpew,

I have never witnessed a complete deliverance for a person who was BiPolar, but have witnesses God heal someone of obvious psychosis. Do I believe it can happen? Cetainly and I pray with/for my clients often. I have seen them, through therapy and prayer, get better and decrease the occurances and the intensity of the manic or depressive episodes.

When, if I do see a complete deliverance I will be sure to document it for authenticity and be the first to proclaim it from the mountaintop...I do what I do having faith that one day God will deliver completely. Until that day...I will do my best to help in whatever area is needed.

Blessings, Rhoni

[BrotherEastman]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

I thought I was bipolar but was scared to get tested for that..

Two yrs ago the doc diagnosed me as hypoglycemic... some of the symptoms are the same.. But far worse with bipolar...
I found it odd that there were some similarities

Do you take meds for being hypoglycemic?

[Rhoni]

JUST FYI...there are much worse Mental Ilnesses than Bi-Polar. Bi-Polar is treatable and one can successfully live with it...some with medication, and some without.

Blessings, Rhoni

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by BrotherEastman

Do you take meds for being hypoglycemic?

No... I don't even know if there are meds available for that. NP said something about diet and exercise..

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

No... I don't even know if there are meds available for that. NP said something about diet and exercise..

My friend is hypoglycemic and when she feels her sugar bottoming out she takes a sugar tablet and has to eat. She eats small meals ever few hours and limits her alcoholic beverages!

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Rhoni

My friend is hypoglycemic and when she feels her sugar bottoming out she takes a sugar tablet and has to eat. She eats small meals ever few hours and limits her alcoholic beverages!

No more Riesling for me Speaking of food... I have to eat now. When I can, I try to eat every every 3 or 4 hours. It makes a big difference. I find that I don't need to sleep durring the day.

[BrotherEastman]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

No... I don't even know if there are meds available for that. NP said something about diet and exercise..

Okay, I did some research (good thing I work at a health care facility), it seems that I have most of those same symptoms that you have posted. I have a doctors appt. this month, so I will share my concerns with my health care worker. Funny how we often miss things until someone else describes symptoms. Thanks Berk!