Mental illness, Spiritual warfare or Emotional baggage? Christian Doctor explains difference

I gave my life to Christ 5 months ago. Since then it has been emotion and mental hell on earth. Complete agony. Tormented and tortured by demons 24/7. This is no walk in the park and not for the faint of heart. Sometimes I wish I could go back to not believing back then life was much easier and I was ok mentally. But I'll keep believing that one day he'll deliver me.

Don't forget hormonal issues, as well. I spent years being told that I was Bi-polar and then they said I had Borderline personality disorder, and they kept changing my medications and nothing was helping. I finally got a counselor who actually listened to what I was saying, and she suggested that my problems might be caused by hormones. She referred me to an excellent gynecologist at USC medical center, and that doctor put me on hormone therapy after hearing what I had to say. That was the beginning of true healing for the first time in my life. A few years later I found an awesome church that had a ministry focused on setting Christians free from demonic oppression (not possession, since true Christians cannot be possessed by demons), and my constant desire to die since I was 5 years old was gone in a few hours. Praise Jesus that today I am finally free of the things that weighed me down for most of my life. 🙌🙌🙌🙏✝️❤

Please pray for my son who has schizophrenia. That I may actually find a Christian doctor who he can trust and that can help us.

GOD has healed me from depression, anxiety and panic attacks. The enemy still tries to give me fear but I take those thoughts captive bring it to the obedience of God. I pray, praise, worship, read the word and dwell in the secret place (spend alone time in God's presence and pray in the spirit- speaking in other tongues). He took me through a process. He helped me overcome my fears. He's still working in me.

Struggled with depression all my life. Came to know Jesus in my 20's. Then had 2 blind children with also mental health and depression. God is good but life is challenging to say the least.

Thank God there's actually a Christian who says that sometimes it's physical and/or emotional, and that it's not always as simple is praying to God and then you're instantly healed. As much as I've been praying for that and expecting God to heal me, it's on HIS time, as sometimes He wants us to seek other treatment first, in order to learn certain lessons that are part of our life's path that God had made for us.

My fellow Brethren in Christ, please, please pray for me, for I am under the spirit realm attacks from Satan on as the Dr said having what if type of very dark and fearful thoughts. So please pray for me so that i can completely repel it in the name of Jesus, it's been like that for quite a while now. So please my brothers and sisters, do pray for me Thank you and God bless you

I am no longer on my medicine for CPTSD etc...(I am for hyperthyroidism) , and I don't need it anymore. re: anxiety, PTSD, etc...I am not even taking herbal medicine any more. Sometimes, you can heal a physical disorder through prayer and be OK. I was told I would have to take it for life, and now I am free. Having that peace back and control over one's mind is incredible. I wouldn't wish that level of distress, inner torment, and flashbacks on anyone. I pray for everyone going through a mental health condition. We can all be strong for too long before things push us over the edge. Having a daily connection to Christ, and the Bible (the Old and new Testaments) is so important.

For around 6-7 months i have those what if thoughts and i can't stop them. Thank you for this video. Also it shows me that a healthy lifestyle is important. Most likely i have my problems from the way i lived for years. I had no friends, i was just gaming and watching youtube, i was obese and eating really unhealthy. Also i had a lot of stress and no motivation. God gave me the fear of death, i was thinking that i have a heart attack. I lost 20kg in under 1 month and i started to go to church, read the bible and stopped gaming. An advice for parents: Please teach your children a healthy lifestyle. Don't let you children or teens sit infront of their phone, tablet, pc, tv or playstation for hours. Also teach them to eat healthy and do sports. It's so important for young people to have good parents. I love my parents but they didn't really teach me/ helped me. I would never allow my children to sit the whole day infront of a pc.

I have to agree with this doc. I have had anxiety and a major depressive disorder that started at pubity. I was finally medically treated at 25. It was like night and day. It was so very worthwhile. I was so miserable even when I had every reason to be overjoyed. Praise our Lord Jesus and The Father for the medication. Yes God could heal me instantly if that is his sovereign will, but it’s his choice entirely. Thank you.

"Perfect love cast fear out" Wow amazing. Praise the Lord ❤🙏

I would like to share my story in order to help anyone struggling as a Christian with mental health issues. The doctor is 100% correct as I experienced this myself. I was one of those Christians who believed that everything mental was caused by spiritual things until I experienced a mild nervous breakdown after severe depression 2 years after my children were kidnapped. I did win them back because God gave me the full victory but it hit me 2 years later and it really scared me one day I was at work and I went to take a break in my car and laid my seat back and felt very strange and I sat back up and that was the beginning of my experience I started to feel fear for no reason out of nowhere and I had already been in a very deep depression for about 3 months and it was getting so bad that like the doctor said when you can't turn your thoughts off that's what was happening to me it was like I was hearing many voices in my head it was like listening to a thousand DJs on a radio station at the same time that's the best way I can describe it and it freaked me out. The same time I also began experiencing panic attacks which I've never had before or since. Then I started to be fearful of going out in public or being around people or even at work going to our weekly meetings it was the most surreal bizarre thing. I was starting to experience Agoraphobia. And one time when I was driving to work I felt surreal I knew my body clearly was on this earth but I don't know if it was purely my mind or some of my spirit felt disconnected with my body but not 100% just a little and that was the most unnerving thing of all. So I broke down and went to a psychiatrist very reluctantly and explained to him what had happened two years prior with the kidnapping of my children and at the end of the conversation he looked at me said well you are doing very well actually considering what you went through so what you're going through now is not uncommon after the trauma that you and your children experienced. So he prescribed me Paxil which works on panic attacks. Again I have to mention I don't even like taking aspirin and I'm very much against taking medicine at all cost unless absolutely necessary I always try to holistic nutritional methods first before agreeing to take any kind of drugs. But this was affecting my job. And being the sole supporter of my children I could not afford to do that so I reluctantly agreed to take this medication and I have to tell you they said 25% people that go on antidepressants never finish because they can't get past the side effects and I can't tell you the dozen side effects were so unbearable and I went to work feeling those but once those side effects disappeared after about three weeks then it became manageable and it was very effective it did raise my serotonin which seemed completely depleted and at the three month mark I was doing great and I decided to stay on it three more months a total of six months and I cold turkey'd (disclaimer: Never cold turkey off of these types of drugs). That's how much I hate drugs even though this one helped me I just did not want to be dependent on it anymore since I felt great. I had some dizziness for about 3 days and that was it. I was off and I've never been on it since. So I have learned to respect the mental health and medication aspect as a real and many times necessary and successful treatment option for many mental disorders because of my personal experience. And as my pastor at the time said when he was in the mission field in South America he shared a true story where he had a nervous breakdown he said he stepped in the shower looked down at his hands and he didn't know how he got in there and that was the beginning of his breakdown and he said it was due to the anxiety and stress of being overwhelmed with the work and the things that entailed his missionary work so he said yes it happens to even pastors it's called burnout. So tragedy, trauma, burnout, lack of sleep in combination with high anxiety for long durations of time absolutely has a detrimental impact on our mental health our physical health our emotional health and hopefully not on our spiritual health because that is the only thing that got me through was praying to God and I was praying literally Psalms 91. So the medicine served its purpose for that time of my life. So this wonderful Doctor is extremely balanced I wish he was around back then he would have given me more comfort during that very challenging time in my life and I'm so glad to hear his story and look forward to reading his book. And I want to give it to my daughter because unfortunately she has experienced a severe form of PTSD and was told that it was untreatable and it was a result of that kidnapping and 25 years later she's still suffering from the trauma of that kidnapping. She is now in her 15th year of counseling. Unfortunately that kidnapping the enemy used it to turn her away from God but I know she still believes in him deeply because she asks for prayer. So please pray for my daughter Danielle, that God would deliver her completely and heal her completely from the depression the anxiety the fear, the wrong thinking, suicidal thoughts and the PTSD. Thank you all and God bless you! 💜🙏

I was never set free with the use of medication. I only got worse. I also went to counselling and had problems because I would talk about all of this stuff but I would never truly get better. My trust in Jesus Christ and talking to him has been the best so far. I know everyone has different experiences but this has been my experience.

Yes! Thank you for this video! I think the church too often lacks discernment and tries to squeeze everything into a spiritual problem when there is hope in the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit to minister to the individual appropriately in each of these areas (body, soul, and spirit)

God is truly amazing. I have been having weird thoughts all day, and I prayed that He'd help me coz He healed me not so long ago from anxiety and depression. Having these thoughts come back was disheartening to say the least, but I realize now that this one was actually spiritual. And this knowledge along with the verse mentioned (1 John 4:18) helped me rest assured that God is with me. God bless you ❤

Nice to see a Dr that's aware of all 3.

Wow this was so so good I actually have agoraphobia and it's honestly horrible I have been through so much severe trauma from being abused molested at a very young age and just having constant trauma after trauma I'm on I look forward to the day where I feel like I can be myself and be OK The more I read my Bible the more better I feel I know God will heal me now I just barely learned about trauma healing recently and I have been on a path to try and heal myself

I as a Christian have thought a lot about this spiritual issues associated with mental illness. I get the physical issues and I know they exist. Will you please pray for my son who has schizophrenia....

What a wonderful doctor!!! I will have to remember the "what if" method for determining the origin of my thoughts. I have a lot of experience with mental health. I was healed of severe depression, however I had other diagnosis that did not get healed that the Lord treated with psychiatric medicine. It has worked wonders. After refusing medication most of my life, I agreed to treatment and I have now been stable for six years. I am blessed with peace deep down in my heart, joy and contentment for the life God has given me.

May God continue to bless your ministry, Doctor. You are treating people in a wise and balanced way.