Would you consider shyness as a mental illness? Modern psychiatry thinks so, assuming your score is high enough on a pre-determined checklist. You could end up with a prescription for Paxil to make you “normal”. This is one example of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry together converting human behavior into a treatable mental illness.
The world has “shifted the ground” and made the context or basis of mental illness a biological, pharmaceutical one. But what if it is really a spiritual, relational context? Then there becomes only one adequate, ultimate solution – Jesus Christ.
Do any psychiatric drugs heal the brain? Since such drugs are actually neurotoxins, they can cause many side effects, including silent brain damage and brain dysfunction.
Psychiatry or healing prayer? How to compare? While psychiatry has a role and place, there are a number of significant advantages of healing, transformative prayer.
Are any mental illnesses genetic? If this is true, then lifelong psychiatric medication would seem inevitable. But serious scientific scrutiny challenges this commonly (and naively) accepted belief.