We frequently get this response to our warnings about psychiatric drugs: "But <fill in the blank psychiatric drug> helped me. I don't know what I could do without it. I could never go back to the way I was before." etc.

Speaking to non-Christians about these things is difficult. They are simply running to the world's solutions for answers - you really can't blame them, because they don't know any better. Sticking to the scientific approach (no better than placebo, flurry of FDA warnings, no science behind mental disorders, no such thing as a chemical imbalance that causes mental disorders, etc.) would probably be best, while praying for them to come to Christ, and witnessing as the opportunity arises.

For the Christian, our approach is to ask, "What do you mean by 'it helped you?' What does 'help' mean to you?" Usually "help" means feeling better. I could smoke a joint and say it helped me, because it made me feel better. But feeling better is not the biblical definition of help. The goal of the Christian is not to feel better, but to become more like Christ in his death and resurrection. Biblically, if something "helps" us in the soul-treatment area, that means it brings us closer to Jesus Christ and further from the world (sanctification - becoming more like Christ). A psychiatric drug will never help you become more sanctified.

Whenever a Christian says, "I couldn't live without a psychiatric drug" to treat their mental/emotional/behavioral state (i.e. their soul), they are saying God is not enough to treat their soul, despite what His Word promises about Christ's grace and Word being sufficient for us (2 Cor. 12:7-10, 2 Pet. 1:3). They end up cheating themselves out of all that God has for them by running to the world's solutions for soul treatment (Col. 2:8).

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