"Unfortunately there's no cure for schizophrenia"
Says who? The ones who said for decades that bipolar and schizophrenia were the result of misfires of neurotransmitters and/or unbalanced serotonin levels? All the psychiatrists who claimed it was so but never order brain scans to support their claim? The very ones who pronounced a death sentence by telling us that we will always have the disease and will always require medication? Medication that keeps "improving" as the last one wasn't doing the job after all (at least for a large segment of us).
All meds ever did for me, personally, was sedate me and make me a fretful zombie emotionally. That is God's best for my life? If they help somebody else then praise God. Not for me, brother, not after 30 years of frightening side effects and NO improvement.
So anywho, the latest news from experts now is that there is absolutely NO evidence that mental illness has anything to do whatsoever with either neurotransmitters or serotonin levels. Decades of being guinea pigs for the obscenely wealthy physchiatric community and the pharmaceutical industry down the drain. Thanks alot!
As for no hope of a cure, tell that to me and other healed believers here, and tell that to Jesus. Following is what He has to say about it. It's up to us to decide if He is a liar, or to stand on His Word till He does what He promises.
And He does EXACTLY what He promises.
Always praying for you, Neo, that you'll embrace the latter for yourself. We who believe are NOT going to remain helpless victims to a world blinded and deceived by the god of this world. Instead we renounce victimhood and clothe ourselves in who we really are in Christ - more than conquerers! Join in, bro!
Just one note first, that I learned through the healing process. It is the very fear itself of another breakdown that is most responsible for the illness. When one is healed, that fear is GONE and never returns! That is the final evidence that one is truly healed.
What was and is the Source of that healing? His Word supplanting the devil's lies. Really just that simple, friend.
As for our brains, He made each unique, and what we consider abnormalities are actually assets He is perfectly able to use for His purposes, if we rise to the level of thankfulness for exactly the way He made us. I thought He couldn't see the resentment I hid inside - from Him and myself, until I came across this bit of profound Scripture:
Romans 9:20-21 NIV
"But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?"
Confessing it to Him allowed Him to remove that element of enmity between us - a MAJOR boon to healing mind and spirit and enabling a much, much deeper level of fellowship with Him. And not so coincidently, my anger toward others subsided as well. The only one ever to blame, was the devil and myself.
Back to healing... ask the Lord for the faith to believe and walk in His promises, over and over, and He will do it. Dare to invest a mustard seed and He will make it grow to be confident and powerful. And once you have looked back and observed how He did it, you'll conclude that He is BRILLIANT!
2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
Phillipians 4:6-7 NKJV
"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
1 Corinthians 2:10-16 NIV
[Punchline at the end - we have the "Mind of Christ" if we feed on His Word and pray in the Spirit every day. True for what ails ANY believer, afflicted by mental illness or anything else.]
"And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power."
"We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived” -
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit."
"The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ."
Claim it, bro! God bless.
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