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| Pastor Receives Overwhelming Response to Sunday Message: "Leave Drugs and Therapy and Return to the Lord"Reader Letter, 7/8/04 "I found your book to be very honest, well researched, and powerful. Recently, I received an e-mail from a woman who had visited our church. I remembered talking with her previously after service. She had been refreshed, stating that she had not heard the Word of God taught in a long time. In her e-mail, she indicated that she would like to come back, but that she had heard that Calvary Chapel pastors did not believe in psychotherapy. She indicated that if this were true, she 'could never attend such a church'. She has not returned. How sad that people will sacrifice the Word of God, which they admit is rare, because they cannot let go of psychology. "I have personally seen the effects of psychology in my own family. I have a close family member who has been in therapy with her psychiatrist for 15 years. Her doctor, who is not a Christian, in her words 'counsels her based on her Christianity' (I'm not sure how one effectively speaks of what he doesn't know or believe). I have watched this person leave their job due to stress (almost ten years ago), move in with her parents, take dozens of pills from a large organizer each day, and have every physical and emotional problem imaginable (by their accounts - depression, childhood sexual abuse that they only discovered at 40, anxiety, chronic fatigue, lime disease, and complete knee replacement on both knees at 50). "Enough of the bad news. I have been sharing about this issue from the Word, when applicable, over the last few months. This past Sunday I was teaching on 'the man of the tombs' from Luke 8. I conveyed many of the ideas I had gleaned from your book. The response was overwhelming. Some was negative, as expected. However, a large number of people want to stop taking drugs, get their children off of drugs, stop seeing their therapists, and trust the Lord. "I have one question. I understand you are not a medical doctor. However, from your experience, what is the best way for people to safely and effectively stop taking medication (considering the often extreme withdrawal symptoms)? "God bless you." --JV, Internet Editor's Note: Our response to this reader's question is posted below. To answer your question about how people can best withdraw, you are right, we are not medical doctors and wouldn't be able to help much. The crux of chapter 10 of our book was to stop more people from taking them in the first place. But we can recommend you visit Dr. Tracy's site at http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html for tapes on how to slowly withdraw from psych drugs. We also recommend Dr. Peter Breggin's book "Your Drug May Be Your Problem", available at http://www.breggin.com. We quoted from this book extensively in our book.
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