SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL CAUSES OF MENTAL DISEASES
***Sometimes people are suffering from spiritual or emotional problems going on. They might be following all the laws of health but they have a spiritual issue going on.
A BIBLICAL EXAMPLE:
1 Kings 13:1-4 (Hand dried up due to disobedience...a spiritual situation.
***Miriam is another example...She spoke against her brother...It had nothing to do with breaking any of the laws of health.
There are biblical examples of spiritual and emotional disease. ONE OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF HEALING IS THE NEED FOR FAITH...Remember the one example in the Bible where the man says INCREASE MY FAITH? We can pray that in order to have more faith.
THY FAITH HATH HEALED THEE
Medical Science is now confirming that faith helps with healing...Studies out of Harvard Medical Clinic and the University of Texas in Dallas have demonstrated that the white blood cell count increases dramatically whenever a person exercises faith...Not only does the White blood cells increase, but the immunizing hormones that are secreted increases as well, making the immune system stronger, just by exercising faith...THEREBY, FAITH IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR
HEALING
***READ THE CNN ARTICLE ABOUT FAITH HELPING HEALING
WE ARE TOLD THE FOLLOWING IN THE SOP:
“Faith in God is essential for health...” {CS 115.3}
Q: WHAT ELSE GETS US IN TROUBLE A LOT?
A: Worry & Anxiety
When people are under stress, the cortisol hormone increases and can cause increased BP and other medical problems...many people who are faithfully following the laws of health are stressed out...assess these people.
“To be anxious about themselves tends to cause weakness and disease...” {MH 229.1}
If you are sitting with someone who is not an SDA and they are anxious and worried, pull out the book 'Desire of Ages' and go to the chapter 'The Invitation'
“There are many whose hearts are aching under a load of care because they seek to reach the world's standard...The continual worry is wearing out the life forces. Our Lord desires them to lay aside this yoke of bondage. He invites them to accept His yoke; He says, “My yoke is easy, and My burden is light...” {DA 330.1}
CONTINUING ON TO PARAGRAPH 3:
“Many...have an anxious, troubled heart, because they are afraid to trust themselves with God. They do not make a complete surrender to Him; for they shrink from the consequences that such a surrender may involve. Unless they do make this surrender, they cannot find peace. {DA 330.3}
MANY TIMES OUR ANXIETY AND TROUBLED HEART IS DUE TO NOT TRUSTING COMPLETELY IN GOD...
Many have depression and heart problems and panic attacks because of that.
SHARE THE FOLLOWING AS WELL:
“Those who take Christ at His word, and surrender their souls to His keeping, their lives to His ordering, will find peace and quietude. Nothing of the world can make them sad when Jesus makes them glad by His presence...” {DA 331.2}
***Do not feel that you need a psychology degree when people tell you they suffer from depression and anxiety...go to this book desire of ages, and share these wonderful promises with them...give them bible verses of hope:
Q: WHAT ARE SOME OF THESE VERSES?
A: Isaiah 26:3....
A: Psalms 119:165
A: Deuteronomy 33:25 (As thy days, so shall thy strength be”)...you can use this with those who don't believe in the Bible...don't tell them it comes from there, just have them repeat it over and over again.
Dr. Agatha Thrash says:
“WORRY CAN CAUSE ALL THE SYMPTOMS OF ORALLY ADMINISTERED STEROIDS MEDS.”
A. Muscle Wasting
B. Change In Weight
C. Nervous Imbalance
D. Poor Healing
E. Poor Clotting
***Worry wears away the life forces...We need to help people get a hold on WORRY.
#2: GUILT IS ANOTHER WEARING AWAY OUR LIFE FORCES
“The relation that exists between the mind and the body is very intimate. When one is affected, the other sympathizes. The condition of the mind affects the health to a far greater degree than many realize. Many of the diseases from which men suffer are the result of mental depression. Grief, anxiety, discontent,
remorse, GUILT, distrust, all tend to break down the life forces and to invite decay and death.” {CH 344.1}
Schizophrenia is a very challenging disorder....many are suffering from this because of unresolved guilt....ask people if they are feeling guilty of things...are they carrying burdens of guilt from their past...if they say yes, tell them to give it to the Lord.
IN MANY LIFESTYLE CENTERS, THAT PART OF TREATMENT IS MISSING.
Remember the man who was healed by Jesus? Christ said “Thy sins be forgive thee, the burden of guilt rolled off of his back....
ANOTHER THING RELATED TO GUILT:
“Many inmates of insane asylums were brought there by experiences similar to my own. Their consciences were stricken with a sense of sin, and their trembling faith dared not claim the promised pardon of God...”
{1T 25.4}
Many commit suicide because they have a stricken conscience of guilt...not because they are depressed...they believe it is too late for them....share 1 John 1:9 with these people.
Dr. Magna parks said 90% of the people she saw while working in a psychiatric hospital are there because of guilt.
CONTINUING ON IN THE QUOTE:
“They listened to descriptions of the orthodox hell until it seemed to curdle the very blood in their veins, and burned an impression upon the tablets of their memory. Waking or sleeping, the frightful picture was ever before them, until reality became lost in imagination, and they saw only the wreathing flames of a fabulous hell, and heard only the shrieking of the doomed. Reason became dethroned, and the brain was filled with the wild phantasy of a terrible dream. Those who teach the doctrine of an eternal hell would do well to look more closely after their authority for so cruel a belief.” {1T 25.4}
Ask these people if they are afraid of being burned in hell...be very sensitive with them.
Teaching the truth to the people frees them from many of these erroneous teachings that are causing them to go insane.
Many SDA's suffer from guilt because they are fighting their conscience...we as SDA's, we know a lot...this can cause them to eventually to go crazy.
***In social psychology, there is something called cognitive dissonance: which is, you believe one thing, and act another way...even worldly psychologists say you cannot continue on that way and have a healthy life...it will cause problems.
“Cheerfulness and a clear conscience are better than drugs and will be an effective agent in your restoration to health.” --HR, June, 1871. (ML 177.) {1MCP 322.3}
JUDAS: Betrayed Jesus
PETER: Denied his Lord
Both were carrying guilt...One repented, one did not, yet we see Judas hanging himself...Guilt can lead you to committing suicide...We should allow guilt to draw us to the feet of Jesus and not to a means of ending our life.
NOT ALL GUILT IS BAD...IT IS UNRESOLVED GUILT THAT IS THE PROBLEM...GUILT IS TO LEAD US TO CHRIST.
Psalms 119:67,71
Psalms 89:31-33
Evil speaking can cause a guilty conscience....we have to be careful what we say and who we say it about...look at what happened to Miriam for speaking against the leader of her day.
“If any who are seeking health have been guilty of evil-speaking, if they have sowed discord in the home, the neighborhood, or the church, and have stirred up alienation and dissension, if by any wrong practice they have led others into sin, these things should be confessed before God and before those who have been offended. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” [1 John 1:9] {GW 216.3}
“To those who desire prayer for their restoration to health, it should be made plain that the violation of God's law, EITHER NATURAL OR SPIRITUAL, IS SIN, and that in order for them to receive His blessing, SIN MUST BE CONFESSED AND FORSAKEN.” {MH 228.1}
Ask these persons if there is anything they need to resolve...is there any wrongs they need to make right...anger and bitterness are other components that need to be dealt with:
***One Study suggests that HOSTILITY IS A BETTER PREDICTOR OF DISEASE THAN ALL THE THINGS SPOKEN OF: cholesterol, hypertension, smoking and overweight...
ANGER TURNS INTO HOSTILITY WHEN YOU BREW OVER SOMETHING...Being angry is not wrong if you have a righteous anger...IT'S WHAT YOU DO WITH THAT ANGER.
“Be angry and sin not.” (Ephesians 4:26)
Examples: Seeing someone get beat up and mistreated is a reason to have righteous anger....BEING ANGRY BECAUSE SOMEONE TALKED ABOUT YOU IS NOT...Don't let self get puffed up.
***Studies show that chronic anger is linked with a weakened immune system, cancer, depression, suicide and coronary disease.
If you know someone dealing with chronic anger. Have them resolve it by going to the Lord.
People with forgiving natures tend to have lower blood pressure than less forgiving people.
***You see how there are spiritual and emotional issues we need to deal with?
THINK OF KING SAUL? HOW WAS HE DEALT WITH WHEN HE WENT CRAZY? MUSIC?
If Music takes demons out, can it put demons in?
What are these people watching? By beholding we become changed. 2 Corinthians 3:18
****Secret vices deplete the zinc from the brain and causes depression. Have these people eat natural zinc.
Unforgiveness can lead to depression and mental issues.
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