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January 8, 2006, 9:47 am PST
01/05 "Am I Cursed?"
Quote From: amyjayne26For me religion and the human mind goes hand in hand. I am sure this is true whatever religion you are. I just have told people what has worked for me and if you don't think that is a real answer, than I guess you will just have to do what you will. For me Christianity is the answer, it is the only thing that has helped me many times through my emotional distresses. I just wanted to let people know that there is a way out and it's through the blood of Jesus. I think if I didn't discuss that I wouldn't be giving a person the whole truth about what helped me get through rough patches in life.
I am not a clinical psychologist by any means, but I am not uneducated. I have taken well over 20 hours of college level psychology classes as I was once a psychology major in a liberal arts university. But it didn't really help me. It was missing something, and I found that something quite a few years ago when I gave my life to Christ. I think sometimes we try too hard to find something mentally wrong with a person, and then to find out later that just a little dose of a love that they had never known will cure all things. I don't doubt that there is mental illness out there, but I also don't doubt that some people are just looking for a power greater than themselves. I have read posts on this board that suggested to me that there are quite a few people out there that are looking for that power.
Also I am just defending my maker against anyone that has said he doesn't exist, and if that is evangelizing than so be it. If you are so uncomfortable in reading that, then by all means don't read it. I didn't say I was uncomfortable reading it. I'm just saying the long and lengthy discussions over religion are in my opinion not appropriate for this particular topic. This topic should focus on helping people with thier problem.
I am also saying that before people start in thinking they are possessed/cursed/whatever, then they need to take the route of making SURE there is nothing physically or mentally wrong with them before turning to things like excorcism or praying with the expectaion that some divine power is going to fix their problems. I don't think that is such unreasonable advice.
What I find unreasonable is people who just automatically give people the advice of "find Jesus" or "pray about it" with the expectation that divine intervention will stop their problem when there could be a physical or mental issue causing their problem, that can be fixed through human means.
Another note, if you took psychology classes in hopes of understanding yourself and helping your problems then you totally missed the point of psychology. You can't diagnose and treat yourself. The whole point of psychology is an objective party looking at a problem of the human mind. And when we diagnose or try to treat ourselves we are NOT objective, we can't be. But then again psychology doesn't work for EVERYONE.
I think it's great that prayer worked for you. I think had you just left your post at "For me Christianity is the answer, it is the only thing that helped me many times through my emotional distress." and then elaborated on that point, like what you did? How you were feeling? How you came to that conclusion. What other methods you tried? Then I think your post would have been very helpful .
I am not trying to dismiss anyone's religious convictions I"m just trying to help people be as helpful as possible with their posts so we can all get the maximum benefit out of this forum.
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