shackleton
Puritan Board Junior
I have recently learned that an aspect of Nouthetic counseling is the belief that mental illness is not real, it does not exist. It is said that psychology was devised by man and therefore cannot be trusted because they do not start from the foundation of man being sinful. They are only dealing with the effects of sin and not sin itself.
They told me it was like sitting on a tack, and instead of pulling the tack out you just take aspirin for the pain. Psychology treats the pain when what really needs to be done is to remove the tack, (sin).
I don't have a problem with this, but I know that even when the tack is pulled out it leaves a hole that causes problems and if left untreated could get infected. Pulling out the tack takes care of original sin, but something needs to be done about the hole, the affects of sin.
In my line of work, (Firefighter and Paramedic for about 12 years), I have seen my fair share of people with mental illness. Most homeless people and a lot of people on welfare are mentally ill. About a quarter of the calls I run are on people with some sort of mental problem.
If sin can and does affect the body and makes it sick, why can't it affect the mind?
I know for a fact that mental illness is real, any thoughts?
They told me it was like sitting on a tack, and instead of pulling the tack out you just take aspirin for the pain. Psychology treats the pain when what really needs to be done is to remove the tack, (sin).
I don't have a problem with this, but I know that even when the tack is pulled out it leaves a hole that causes problems and if left untreated could get infected. Pulling out the tack takes care of original sin, but something needs to be done about the hole, the affects of sin.
In my line of work, (Firefighter and Paramedic for about 12 years), I have seen my fair share of people with mental illness. Most homeless people and a lot of people on welfare are mentally ill. About a quarter of the calls I run are on people with some sort of mental problem.
If sin can and does affect the body and makes it sick, why can't it affect the mind?
I know for a fact that mental illness is real, any thoughts?