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Seems to be lots of generalizations being made.
Correct. Most of CC traffic are neither medical professionals (Psychiatrists, PhD Psychologists, MD, etc.) nor are we professional counselors. The thread is open for discussion based on personal experience of observed behavior within the Christian community.
Some of what i've seen here is sad to read and think that Christians believe it is right. As if this is a topic easily resolved. If what you read makes you sad, what do you think the rest of us read and make us sad? That's the whole point. There is mental instability among Christians --which makes us sad,-- and it'd be interesting to learn, to understand how can we cope with them, since this is not a topic easily resolved.
Some people don't take meds because they don't have the financial capabilities.
Correct. But does lack of finances relieve the egocentric from his/her responsibility to subject his/her ego to the Bible's behavioral recommendations the rest of us are subject to?
Some are aware that meds don't always work and sometimes exacerbate existing problems. And until you try it there's no way to know how you will be affected. This entire thought is absolutely true. Frankly, there are no meds to curve egocentricity, or self-adoration, but for ADHD, for example, there are meds available and affordable. In some cases, the pharmaceutical manufacturer may even provide the med for free to qualified households.
And, really, some of this requires being in judgment over others.
...uh... requires?
Nobody is judging anybody. That's the point. How do Christians kindly speak frankly to another Christian who is egocentric? It's unfair, frankly to brush the behavior off as if it doesn't exist.
Unless you have a mental illness then you don't know what a person is feeling, or going through,
Well, I don't have a mental illness on Tuesdays, on Thanksgiving and on my birthday.
The rest of the time, my mental illness allows me to know what self-absorbed behavior feels like, sounds like, looks like and the damage it does to others.
Okay seriously.
Ugly, are you saying that a Christian would never be able to recognize a self-center, attention-seeker Christian unless both Christians have a mental ill to compare notes?
so to decide that it's a justification for their sins, to hide behind mental illness, is a judgment call most people don't have the right to make.
The discussion is not about deciding anything about sin. The discussion is about how do Christians cope when some Christians are egocentric drowning other believers into gossip, swinging them into guilt-trips for calling them out.
And the whole 'very nature of mental illness' comment is so way of base it's not even funny. Some folks here on CC work or have worked with Special Ed students, or are lic. therapists for adults with mental conditions. That kind of experience is not funny indeed.
Correct. Most of CC traffic are neither medical professionals (Psychiatrists, PhD Psychologists, MD, etc.) nor are we professional counselors. The thread is open for discussion based on personal experience of observed behavior within the Christian community.
Some of what i've seen here is sad to read and think that Christians believe it is right. As if this is a topic easily resolved. If what you read makes you sad, what do you think the rest of us read and make us sad? That's the whole point. There is mental instability among Christians --which makes us sad,-- and it'd be interesting to learn, to understand how can we cope with them, since this is not a topic easily resolved.
Some people don't take meds because they don't have the financial capabilities.
Correct. But does lack of finances relieve the egocentric from his/her responsibility to subject his/her ego to the Bible's behavioral recommendations the rest of us are subject to?
Some are aware that meds don't always work and sometimes exacerbate existing problems. And until you try it there's no way to know how you will be affected. This entire thought is absolutely true. Frankly, there are no meds to curve egocentricity, or self-adoration, but for ADHD, for example, there are meds available and affordable. In some cases, the pharmaceutical manufacturer may even provide the med for free to qualified households.
And, really, some of this requires being in judgment over others.
...uh... requires?
Nobody is judging anybody. That's the point. How do Christians kindly speak frankly to another Christian who is egocentric? It's unfair, frankly to brush the behavior off as if it doesn't exist.
Unless you have a mental illness then you don't know what a person is feeling, or going through,
Well, I don't have a mental illness on Tuesdays, on Thanksgiving and on my birthday.
The rest of the time, my mental illness allows me to know what self-absorbed behavior feels like, sounds like, looks like and the damage it does to others.
Okay seriously.
Ugly, are you saying that a Christian would never be able to recognize a self-center, attention-seeker Christian unless both Christians have a mental ill to compare notes?
so to decide that it's a justification for their sins, to hide behind mental illness, is a judgment call most people don't have the right to make.
The discussion is not about deciding anything about sin. The discussion is about how do Christians cope when some Christians are egocentric drowning other believers into gossip, swinging them into guilt-trips for calling them out.
And the whole 'very nature of mental illness' comment is so way of base it's not even funny. Some folks here on CC work or have worked with Special Ed students, or are lic. therapists for adults with mental conditions. That kind of experience is not funny indeed.
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