Satan doesn't have anything on Jesus or His Crusaders.
If you take pills for that..
I can't say what I really feel.
Deuteronomy 32:35
The problem with you people is that you think mental illness is purely spiritual and not physical. The issue is that it is a physical condition that can badly effect our spiritual life. i believe the word works foolproof spiritually, but physically everything has been effected by sin and the fall and God wants it like that most of the time.
For example - down syndrome people don't become normal when they come to faith and neither do those without arms or legs get new ones when they are filled with the Holy Ghost. Indeed there were thousands of sick people in Israel at the time of Jesus but He only healed a small number of them. The same with the disciples later on. We read of a few healings but nothing grand scale in the new testament Church, very much as it is nowadays i presume. Millions of believers across all Churches suffer and die from illnesses that God doesn't heal, even though many people are praying for them.
For years i had 100 percent faith that God would heal me from my illness, i refused medicines, and went by faith alone, it wasn't true. The truth told me that God didn't intend to heal me no matter how much i tried to force Him to do that having faith in Him. God did not heal me by faith alone, obviously it wasn't in His will.
The truth is that he did bring me medicine and they worked great restoring my mind to sanity. Now i can enjoy an even far better relationship with Christ and everyone else then the time i was still crazed out of my mind.
i hope that mentally people reading your comments are not swayed of their medicine to go and do it by faith alone.
i once knew a lady who was mentally ill, married with a daughter who went to a charismatic Church, and was on medicine. She was doing really well, was reasonably happily married and adored her daughter, and her daughter her.
Any way the Church leaders found out she was on medicine and told her that this was sinful and that she had to learn to trust in God and put her faith in Jesus and go of the medicine. After struggling with this for awhile, she decided that her pastor was right and she went off her medicine.
It was horrible to see everything go down hill within days of stopping, poor lady went psychotic and run totally out of control and destroyed her relationship with her family over the next few months. All while she had 100 percent faith in God, and she was praising Him, and so happy in her faith because God was going to heal her. Poor lady had no idea what she was doing! Destroying everything around her. (This has happened to me countless times as well!)
She lost her husband who divorced her, almost lost her faith in God, and spend years trying to restore some kind of relationship with her daughter, who at first completely disowned her. She was never the same again.
i was so upset with those Church leaders for doing that, they literally destroyed a family with their erroneous thinking.
(Not saying that Jesus can't heal i have seen Him do it, so i know He can, but He doesn't often do that, just like it was in Israel at the time.)