"How do you propose treating people who have lost touch with reality, if you do not do it with medication? Are there any circumstances that you would propose using psychiatric medication?"

Using psychiatric medication to treat people who have lost touch with reality will only dull their senses that much more, especially when those meds are doing unknown amounts of damage to their brains. We won't go into why use of psychiatric medication to treat mental problems is a dead-end approach, since we've covered this in past newsletters (see for example http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0408_Q&A.htm).

Although we focus our ministry on the typical, normal functioning Christian who has fallen prey to psychology's treatments and "science falsely so called", there are extreme cases of people who really have lost touch with reality. They may talk to themselves, talk nonsense, hallucinate, become overly paranoid, or have homicidal or suicidal thoughts. While the world would call this "mental illness," we would call it a reprobate mind.

Consider the following verses:

1Cr 14:33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

God gives us love, peace, a sound mind, and temperance (self-control). Contrast this with what the flesh gives us: confusion, fear, outbursts of wrath, murder, etc. We believe some people can become so steeped in sin that their very minds start to waste away. Instead of a sound mind, their mind has become confused, fearful and angry. They can no longer think rationally. This is what the world would call "mental illness."

We also believe that in some cases there is a demonic component to mental illness. Unlike in Jesus' day, we don't see very often people writhing on the ground and foaming at the mouth from a demon who has possessed them, but we do see people who don't have their right mind about them. All those demons from Jesus' day are somewhere, and we believe mental illness is one of their manifestations (but this is only our belief).

So what is the cure for this type of "mental illness?" Psychiatric drugs will only exacerbate the problem. We need to consider psych drugs equivalent to illicit drugs like speed, cocaine and heroin in that they alter the mind. Any mind-altering drug will only sear the conscience more and open us up to more demonic influence and confusion in the mind (is it any coincidence that all the school and workplace shootings were committed by people on psychiatric drugs?). Even in these situations of extreme "mental illness," psych drugs are not the answer.

The answer is, as it has been for the last 2,000 years, the power of the Lord Jesus Christ to overcome sin, Satan and his demons. People who have lost touch with reality need to be prayed over, ministered to, and loved. If they don't understand our preaching, we should do it anyway. We believe the Word of God by the power of the Holy Spirit will renew their minds with much prayer and fasting. We have heard some powerful stories of people who lives were destroyed by sin and Satan, and then set free by turning to the Lord Jesus Christ by faith.

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