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Isaac B.

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I didn't believe this until last year. I always thought god doesn't internally take away our emotions of depression or anxious but rather helps us externally by directing us to tools or people that can help us. But i learned from my experience and from christian testimonials god actually internally remove these mental or physical disorders sort of like a taking a "magic pill" from god.

In YouTube there is a massive amount christian testimonials of people god interntallyhealed from depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, etc. from just reading bible and praying. These christian personal accounts will make you know that god can remove these negative feelings from you without needing psychology, doctors, or medications. Not saying that these treatments don't work.

Additionally, In separate occasions I met a few a separate guys who said just by reading the bible their schizophrenia stopped without needing to take any meds. My mom few years ago got schizophrenia out of no where, meds helped her however after praying and reading bible alot her schizophrenia vanished without needing to take meds no more. It will take time waiting on god so be patient guys.

God bless!
 
Uh huh. I spent 10 years of my life with a schizophrenic man who read the Bible every single day, spoke in tongues, studied the Bible with the help of a giant Strong’s concordance that he carted around everywhere and was convinced that God ‘spoke’ to him. He was basically on God’s good side - so you would think. He ended up in hospital several times over the course of our relationship and suffered greatly at the hands of his illness.

Scizophrenia, bi-polar and all manner of mental illness are brain disorders and require medication. Thank God the big guy upstairs gave (some of us) the knowledge and know-how to figure things out. . . .like science.

If the Bible gives one comfort, so be it. But please don’t encourage someone who is suffering from a mental illness to drop their medications in favour of delving into the good book, hoping to be cured of their afflictions. It’s irresponsible.
 
In all seriousness, exerting the body through rigorous exercise will knock out most depression. your body will be too tired to focus on mundane things, and the endorphins released through said exercise will always be a contributing factor..

Also, fasting. Purifying the blood through fasting will clear your mind.
 
In all seriousness, exerting the body through rigorous exercise will knock out most depression. your body will be too tired to focus on mundane things, and the endorphins released through said exercise will always be a contributing factor..

Also, fasting. Purifying the blood through fasting will clear your mind.
Depression, sure - to a point. Scizophrenia, bi-polar - not so much. Rigorous exercise and fasting doesn't cut it when someone is in crisis, in the midst of a major manic episode, hallucinating to the point they can't decipher what's real and what isn't, etc, etc.
 
Sometimes i get waves of sadness or intrusive thoughts that won't stop no matter what i do or meds i take, unless i pray they finally go away IMMEDIATELY. It's hit or miss though, doesn't work all the time. I'm so early in my journey though, They say it takes time before god finally dives to give a big removal of these emotions once your faith grows. I believe this because it has been going just like that once i stopped being super skeptical.

Remember to watch christian testimonials they really show you the healing power of god that you wouldn't imagine.
 
, hallucinating to the point they can't decipher what's real and what isn't, etc, etc.
I wasn't talking about hallucinating. I was talking about run of the mill depression..
In case of hallucinations, I'd say that would be coming from whatever prescription pills they are on for whatever mental issues they have... - (ie side effects. - which few seldom bother to read) to which those pills aren't curing anything , but simply masking the problems and never cutting out the root cause of issue to completely eliminate it. there is no money to be made in completely curing anyone. that's not how the big pharma works.

I don't expect my opinions on the matter to be well liked around here, but, it is what it is.
 
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In all seriousness, exerting the body through rigorous exercise will knock out most depression. your body will be too tired to focus on mundane things, and the endorphins released through said exercise will always be a contributing factor..

Also, fasting. Purifying the blood through fasting will clear your mind.
Beautiful vistas are good for depression. Get away from the closeness of the city now and then and smell the country air and experience some wide open spaces.

Also, flowers. The scents of spring are a depression remedy. Spending an hour in a flower shop works wonders.

Not for everyone, but licorice is a good antidepressant. Not the candy. Real herbal licorice root. I make it into tea. There are several licorice teas from major companies. Yogi's Egyptian Licorice Tea is about the most licoricy. Be moderate. Licorice is a laxative, too.
 
The post reads like backdoor preaching/evangelism. It's incredibly annoying how some Christians do this, and it's dishonest and also potentially dangerous in this case, as someone pointed out.
 
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Not for everyone, but licorice is a good antidepressant. Not the candy. Real herbal licorice root.
Yeah, totally agree with this. I take around 80mg of liquorice daily in various forms
 
Yogi's Egyptian Licorice Tea is about the most licoricy. Be moderate. Licorice is a laxative, too
agreed jesse, just make sure the teabags you are buying aren't bleached - that does cause cancer.. it's the reason why some organic teas are way pricier than others.
 
I don't expect my opinions on the matter to be well liked around here, but, it is what it is.
First off, please don't apologize for having an opinion. We all have one here - we may not agree all the time and that's fine. I wasn't coming down on you with my reply at all (if that's how you took it). :)

In case of hallucinations, I'd say that would be coming from whatever prescription pills they are on for whatever mental issues they have... - (ie side effects. - which few seldom bother to read) to which those pills aren't curing anything , but simply masking the problems and never cutting out the root cause of issue to completely eliminate it.
Disagree with you here. From my experience - coming from a father who developed bi-polar/manic-depression when I was 8 years old, a bi-polar best friend and a long-term relationship with a schizophrenic, this isn't how psychiatric meds work. Lithium is a standard medication used when treating bi-polar illness. Over the many years my dad was in and out of hospitals - thinking he was Jesus Christ, thinking he was a Russian spy or an Indian, lithium was the only thing that kept those symptoms at bay and allowed him to function fairly normally. Granted, psychiatric meds can have side effects and sometimes patients will get stuck in a never-ending cycle of not knowing what symptoms are their illness and what is caused by medication. I think when it comes to meds for depression and that sort of thing, too many doctors simply prescribe pills - and I agree with you, masking the problem instead of helping it.

There is no money to be made in completely curing anyone. that's not how the big pharma works.
Totally agree with you here. And I also think that big pharma doesn't have all the answers. I believe that alternative medical treatments have a viable and useful place in healthcare.
 
First off, please don't apologize for having an opinion. We all have one here - we may not agree all the time and that's fine. I wasn't coming down on you with my reply at all (if that's how you took it). :)


Disagree with you here. From my experience - coming from a father who developed bi-polar/manic-depression when I was 8 years old, a bi-polar best friend and a long-term relationship with a schizophrenic, this isn't how psychiatric meds work. Lithium is a standard medication used when treating bi-polar illness. Over the many years my dad was in and out of hospitals - thinking he was Jesus Christ, thinking he was a Russian spy or an Indian, lithium was the only thing that kept those symptoms at bay and allowed him to function fairly normally. Granted, psychiatric meds can have side effects and sometimes patients will get stuck in a never-ending cycle of not knowing what symptoms are their illness and what is caused by medication. I think when it comes to meds for depression and that sort of thing, too many doctors simply prescribe pills - and I agree with you, masking the problem instead of helping it.


Totally agree with you here. And I also think that big pharma doesn't have all the answers. I believe that alternative medical treatments have a viable and useful place in healthcare.
I was on lithium for two weeks. It nearly destroyed my livelihood. I was a zombie.

It's not that psychiatric meds don't work. It's that it is trial and error, resulting more in error.

The brain is chemistry. If it's not right it needs correcting. But if it's over corrected or wrongly corrected it can be harmful. My advice is to avoid pharmaceuticals until all other options are exhausted.

Another point on supplements and such, your body tries to find all you need through diet and cravings. If you take a substance regularly your body doesn't need to find a source for it, so it loses the ability to alert you. You become dependent on the artificial source.

This is my perspective. I don't take anything regularly. I'll skip days to make my system build cravings. Hopefully this keeps the process alive. It's not absolute, but if you aren't getting something you need you will crave something that has it.

Or you can spend the rest of your life paying for the artificial sources.
 
Totally agree with you here. And I also think that big pharma doesn't have all the answers. I believe that alternative medical treatments have a viable and useful place in healthcare.
I'm a huge advocate of alternative medicine and therapies, but it's always struck me as absurd when people tell me they "don't like to take pills" but paradoxically think nothing of ingesting "natural" herbs or plants. Both man-made and natural compounds have effects on biological systems. Nothing about natural compounds makes them more or less effective or safe. How confident we can be that a given compound is both effective and safe has nothing to do with where it comes from but rather with how rigorously its effectiveness and safety have been studied.
 
I'm a huge advocate of alternative medicine and therapies, but it's always struck me as absurd when people tell me they "don't like to take pills" but paradoxically think nothing of ingesting "natural" herbs or plants. Both man-made and natural compounds have effects on biological systems. Nothing about natural compounds makes them more or less effective or safe. How confident we can be that a given compound is both effective and safe has nothing to do with where it comes from but rather with how rigorously its effectiveness and safety have been studied.
Well pharma drugs are typically WAY more potent and purified then "natural" herbs or plants. Also they are mixed with other stuff which may cause other problems. Many of the alternative medicines have little real effect because their dosages are so small. Most of the vitamins and minerals people buy just allows them to excrete expensive urine.
 
Well pharma drugs are typically WAY more potent and purified then "natural" herbs or plants. Also they are mixed with other stuff which may cause other problems. Many of the alternative medicines have little real effect because their dosages are so small. Most of the vitamins and minerals people buy just allows them to excrete expensive urine.
Yep, totally agree man spot on. Herbal medicines are widely trusted but that trust is mostly due to our imagination coupling them with a bucolic vision of nature which never existed.

While the vast majority of herbal medicines are not as dramatically lethal as Botulinum toxin for example, virtually all will have some adverse effects. Indeed, any substance that alters your body’s physiology will have side effects.

After all, the main reason that there are so many chemicals in plants that we can use as medicines is that they are used as defences So they interfere with some aspect of physiology to stop animals eating them (morphine, caffeine, Tetrahydrocannabinol in marijuana and those lovely aromatic oils in Eucalyptus oil ). Or they provide defence against infection (salicylic acid in willow bark, for instance).

Extract of foxglove is effective for treating heart failure, but get the concentration wrong and it is lethal; willow bark is effective for reducing pains and fever but causes ulceration of the mouth and throat if used for a while; and Senna pods are used to relieve constipation, but can cause heart and gastrointestinal problems.

many herbal medicines have very low amounts of the active ingredients, or do not have the active ingredient at all. So many herbal medicines are no more than expensive placebos.
 

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