Tag: mental illness

  • Advice to a friend concerning mental health

    We are all sinners and subject to natural death, our bodies slowly break down as we age. Many are quite familiar with common physical ailments, yet our minds can also become broken. These are all effects of the Fall. Sadly there is a negative stigma against those suffering from mental illness. And many sufferers never…

  • Jeffrey Dahmer is my brother in Christ

    God granted notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer repentance and faith!! At the 23:30 mark is Dahmer’s short testimony of salvation, from his interview with Stone Philips. Also, note the two letters he wrote below. Dahmer was able to be baptized before being cruelly murdered by another inmate! GLORY TO GOD NO ONE IS SO EVIL…

  • A Reformed conversation on nouthetic and biblical counseling

    I just had a very fruitful exchange with a dear brother, Philip, who is Reformed like me, and who suffers from serious mental illness like me, on the topic of my recent blog post on Jay Adam’s nouthetic counseling. If you’d like to read the blog post to see what precisely he responded to you…

  • Nouthetic Counseling: A Critical Evaluation

    So I made the mistake of asking my Facebook friends what nouthetic counseling (Greek: noutheteo, to admonish) is yesterday. I received a flood of responses. However, most of the responses were very much pro- nouthetic counseling. And they spoke glowingly about self-styled BIBLICAL COUNSELOR Jay Adams. In this post I will give a critical (yet…

  • Mental Illness: A Blessing in Disguise?

    I know that most readers may be taken aback by the title of this post. Some will be confused as to how mental illness could be a blessing. Can something which disturbs your life on a fundamental level, which causes so much pain, heartache, grief and even despair, be on any level good? I say…

  • Pray for Uvalde

    Recently there was a terrible shooting, by an eighteen year old gunman, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen children were killed, and two teachers. I believe this shooting perfectly illustrates the total depravity of man. Without God restraining us every person is capable of heinous evil acts. I also think that this shooting…

  • Depleted

    I have no energyMy strength is goneI struggle to concentrateI’m totally withdrawn I slept for sixty hoursIn four consecutive daysMy thoughts are disconnectedReality is a haze I feel like a prisonerI’m in a stuporSlowly I get out of bedI’m unsteady and I stagger I’m lethargicUtterly fatigued and spentWhat shall I doI feel such torment I’m…

  • Mental illness and America

    Sadly, in our American society, even though it’s the 21st century, there is still a strong and harsh stigma for people suffering from mental illness. In the minds of many people the mentally ill are freaks, perverts, are very dangerous, and they feel the mentally ill should be locked away in mental hospitals to “protect”…

  • Faith in Action

    This poem was inspired by my dearest sister Vi! Thanks! My thoughts are troubled and disjointedBut this too was appointed I need not fearFor God is near As close as my very heartHe promised to not ever depart So amidst the mental chaos, I am calmGod’s Word is a soothing balm Everything will be ok…

  • My struggle

    When I was a child I had boundless energy. I used to spend hours playing outside (8-12 no joke!). I was actually hyperactive. I once ran around our entire block, at our home on Meadowbrook Blvd. in Brentwood, about 20 times in a row without stopping! I am thankful to God for giving me a…