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Mental Illness In Christianity

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Sometimes the idea that people are different is an idea that escapes us especially in the Christian community. We see the idea of mental illness flowing everywhere and as Christians we should be able to love and help those in need, yet we just shove them away as though it is impossible to love the Lord and be sad or anxious. We act as though it is a taboo and awful thing and we become judgmental to something that is mainly a chemical imbalance in the first place. One thing we miss out on helping the most is mental illness.

It comes from a state of mind that is mainly embedded through the other things we ignore such as memories and broken hope. We as Christians shove it away as though it is a worse sin than most other things when truly all sin is equal in Gods eyes. They do not see it as something we cannot control, but something we choose to be a part of something we use just hurt because we can and choose to. Many people assume we choose to be miserable and that is not the truth.

Mental illness is chemicals imbalanced it is something that you have to work on. God makes us with faults and he knows we are going to sin, but he expects us to build in it and not hide from it. God loves us no matter what we are facing and holds us through the trials and the pain. We miss out on the opportunity every day to help them because we are so quick to judge and make assumptions.

In Christianity mental illness is such a different idea the world already hates the idea of not being able to see our sickness. We know that the world takes it to lightly. They think that there is no validity I mean maybe partial validity if three doctors agree. That is before we throw holier than thou Christians into the mix. Lucky for some of us we do find the people in the Christian mix who get that we are not all perfect

I didn’t write this to make any point other than put the opinions down. Get your head out of the judgment pool and help someone. God didn’t make you to be self-righteous but to be helpful. God made us to be together and to love one another not to be alone. Love one another and help the ones you miss right next to you. I know from experience that having a good Christian friend is all it took for me to look for help and you could be the first to help someone too.

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