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BarbaraTherese
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Hi Alan…a great point in your Post that I read, it hit me between the eyes, and so I paused and gave it some thought:I totally agree!
Medication does not actually correct the problem in most cases. It can help the symptoms, but it does not correct the underlying problem of being an emotional basket case due to original sin and an upbringing in a worldly society. It can, however, help correct symptoms such as racing heart rate, high blood pressure, and insomnia. My shrink looks at it kind of like wearing a cast. It doesn’t actually fix the problem, but it helps hold things together so your body is empowered to heal itself naturally. Of course, I tell him it is the Holy Spirit that I believe heals me, and he’s one of the few shrinks I know who can discuss such spiritual concepts with me without looking at me funny. He is interested in my beliefs, but still used to try to get me to avoid introspection and focus on religion. That’s the only thing I disobeyed him over; I did just the opposite and dug in farther. He’s OK with it now because he has seen marvelous results in me. I always fancied myself a tool to evangelize the psychiatric community, ever since 1983.
Alan
P.S. By the “psychiatric community” I meant the doctors. The patients, by and large, don’t need evangelization. They need someone to listen to them as if they were actually human beings.
“tool to evangelize the psychiatric community” smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_12_11.gif…
… perhaps indeed this is what we Christians and Catholics are doing ‘inside the system’ , acting as means to evangelize a community almost notoriously athiestic and of consequence in potential doing harm to quite a few… I repeat “alomost athiestic” and “potential harm”!
I hold that nothing in life is entirely negative, depending on one’s attitude. Thanks for the Post, Alan… and the inspiriation.
Regards, Barb - Bethany Sth. Aust.
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